Pro-life Santorum voted for govt subsidies to Planned Parenthood

http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/pro-life-santorum-voted-for-govt-subsidies-to-planned-parenthood/ ^ | 021012 | Dr. Eowyn

[Fred]

The taxpayer-subsidized abortion mill, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a 12-month period and performed 329,455 abortions.

While he was in the U.S. Senate representing Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, a pro-life Roman Catholic, had voted to fund indirectly (through title X family planning) Planned Parenthood clinics.

Santorum also voted in favor of HR 796, the Abortion Clinic Access Bill; his was a “key vote”. HR 796 sought to amend the federal criminal code to prohibit actions directed at clinics which perform abortion procedures, or at those persons attempting to access these clinics.

He also enthusiastically campaigned for pro-abortion Arlen Specter against the more conservative Pat Toomey.

see video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFSXGVX73s&feature=player_embedded

[Prokopton]

Specter, who became a Democrat just months after Santorum’s support.

Specter, true to his promise to Santorum, was key in getting confirmation for SCOTUS Justices Thomas and Alito.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Santorum also voted in favor of HR 796, the Abortion Clinic Access Bill; his was a “key vote”. HR 796 sought to amend the federal criminal code to prohibit actions directed at clinics which perform abortion procedures, or at those persons attempting to access these clinics.

I decided just to look at this one.

November 18, 1993 - Roll Call 582 - Motion to recommit

PA 1 Rep. Richard J. 'Rick' Santorum Republican Yea

A "Yea" vote was to recommit the bill to committee -- the final chance at killing a bill. Santorum voted to kill the bill.

After this vote, the bill was passed by the DEMOCRATIC house, by an unrecorded VOICE VOTE.

So, I have no idea where you got the idea he voted for the bill. But I have a guess -- the term "key vote". That's a term used by project Vote Smart, but it just means the vote that mattered on the bill. VS just reports the highlights of a bill, and that includes the "key votes".

So that's my guess, you went to project vote smart, looked up key vote, found the roll call, saw Santorum was a "yes", and missed that the only recorded vote was the motion to recommit.

I hope you can get the moderators to pull or edit your post, to correct this error.

[stylin19a]

this is the best you’ve got ? you keep scraping the bottom of the barrel to trash Santorum...and it ain’t working.

[CharlesWayneCT]

He voted for title X funding. There was no vote to ban PP from getting money from that, and PP did get money from that. To say he voted for PP funding is to seriously mischaracterize the vote.

It’s only in the past few years that conservatives have been able to turn the argument against PP, and it’s been a struggle at that. As Santorum says in a really good smack-down of Ron Paul in a video at the site you link, PP gets money only indirectly from title X, and title X was only part of the appropriations bill that he voted for.

In the end, huge bills have things in them that people oppose, and nobody gets everything they want, and you can’t just vote no on every bill that isn’t exactly what you wanted, or nothing would pass.

I actually appreciate the post, because while it has some really bad information, if you watch the video, I see Rick Santorum effectively and brutally answering a Ron Paul supporter, in a situation where most candidates choke.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Here’s what I hate about posts like yours. I don’t mind talking about this stuff here. But go to Google and type “Rick Santorum Title X”, and the title of this post is the 2nd hit. So FreeRepublic is being used to spread the false claim that Rick Santorum funds planned parenthood.

Sure, that’s what the stupid blog said, but the stupid blog gets no hits, and google doesn’t care about it. FR on the other hand gets lots of hits and now good people will be misled because of this thread.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The blogger screwed up. He linked to the roll call vote for the original bill’s motion to recommit. I think Santorum voted against it 4 or more times, first on the recommit for HR796 (the vote linked by the blog), then on the voice vote on HR796, and then two votes on S 636.

He did however for for a major appropriations bill of which Title X was a small part, and as Santorum admits in the video, Title X includes money for contraception, and he thinks that is wrong, but won’t vote against the entire year’s appropriations to fight over a line item in Title X that actually had majority support.

[Steelfish]

Agree. This is both an untrue and slanderous thread that one may encounter in MoveOn.org websites and should be removed.

[WorkingClassFilth]

There is nothing wrong with working against PP in a lawful and respectful manner. We oppose it, let us oppose it within the means available by law. If we block sidewalks and take up the tools of the left, we lose what we truly want - to end government involvement in what it has no business being involved in. Roe v. Wade is the law; until we can overturn that unjust and immoral law, we act within it.

[dangus]

Insidious half-truth.

HR 796 was entitled, the “Abortion Clinic Access” bill, but it was a Republican proposal intended to create a constitutional alternative to Bill Clinton’s bid to stifle pro-lifers first amendment rights.

It was supported by pro-lifers, and opposed by the pro-abortion crowd.