Democrats Promise to Kill Bill De-Funding Planned Parenthood; Harry Reid: “Good Luck With That”

lifenews.com ^ | Jul 28, 2015 | Steven Ertelt

[Morgana]

Senate Democrats are promising to kill a pro-life measure the Senate may vote on as soon as next week that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

The U.S. Senate will hold a vote on a measure to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in a matter of days. The vote will come before the Senate takes its August recess.

In the wake of three shocking videos showing top Planned Parenthood doctors arranging the sale of body parts form aborted babies, there have been competing measures to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Senator Rand Paul is behind one effort to strip the abortion business of its taxpayer funding while Senator James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, introduced a bill to end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood for a year while they are investigated for possible illegal practices.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell started a fast-track process Friday on legislation to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding. The Republican leader began “Rule 14,” which will let the legislation skip the committee process and be placed on the Senate calendar so it can be brought up for a floor vote.

According to a Politico report, McConell has asked three pro-life Republicans to come up with a final measure for the Senate to consider — Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).

SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately

“The Senate will vote next week on a GOP bill that could eliminate the $540 million in government funding the group receives, according to Republican aides. Also under consideration is a narrower provision that would put in place a moratorium on funding for the group until a congressional investigation is completed into alleged sales of fetal tissue from abortions,” the report says.

But Democrats are already planning to filibuster the bill and kill it and they are wrapping their filibuster threat in women’s health care — even though selling aborted babies does nothing to advance women’s health care:

Seeking to thwart Democratic criticism that such a move would undermine women’s health, GOP leaders may move to reprogram Planned Parenthood funds to other women’s programs. But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats already rejected that idea, and say they have the votes to defeat the GOP effort.

“Good luck with that,” Reid said on Tuesday.

“I am furious that Republicans are once again trying to take away basic health care services for 2.7 million women,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). “We have stood strong before that we are going to make sure that women in this country have health care available, Planned Parenthood provides it. For Republicans to take it away is wrong.”

Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester echoed Murray’s sentiments.

“It’s ridiculous. Women use this for health care in a big, big way,” Tester said. “It’s crazy. Let’s repeal the Affordable Care Act while we’re at it.”

The Lankford Senate bill, Defund Planned Parenthood Act, would set a one-year moratorium on Planned Parenthood funding from the government, unless the organization ceases performing abortions, his office informed LifeNews.com. This would allow more federal dollars to go toward organizations like community health centers, which serve low-income populations and provide direct health care to women across the country without also killing unborn children in abortions.

“The recent videos uncovering Planned Parenthood’s inhumane abortion practices have hit a nerve with many Americans,” said Lankford. “While the government investigates Planned Parenthood to determine if their practice of adapting their abortion procedures to harvest the organs of children violates federal law, they should not continue to receive taxpayer money. Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million in taxpayer money every year.”

“This is a sensitive topic for many and I am aware our nation is divided on the issue of abortion, but it is common sense that we shouldn’t force taxpayers to assist the harvesting of human organs,” he said. “Although abortion services account for about 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s activities, serving about 10 percent of its clients, they perform over 300,000 abortions a year.”

SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must Investigate Planned Parenthood for Selling Aborted Baby Parts

Last Thursday, Lankford delivered a passionate speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate about Planned Parenthood. Lankford also wrote an op-ed calling for Congress to end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and take up the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S.1553) to ban abortions after five months.

Meanwhile, more than 80 members of the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would immediately de-fund Planned Parenthood. Representative Diane Black (R-TN) and 80 original cosponsors introduced H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, which would immediately halt all sources of Federal funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates for a one year period.

Black, a Tennessee Republican and a nurse for more than 40 years, told LifeNews that the shocking video provides yet another reason to ensure the Planned Parenthood abortion company does not receive taxpayer dollars.

Since 2013, Congressman Black has sponsored H.R. 217, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would combat one of Planned Parenthood’s major government revenue streams by withholding Title X grants from any health care provider that performs abortions or gives funds to organizations that do. However, a nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) study released earlier this year found that Planned Parenthood also received $1.2 billion from Medicaid over a three year window – making it clear that legislation is needed to combat any possible source of federal funding for the scandal-ridden abortion mill.

House Republicans previously approved bills to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business but the Senatehas not recently voted for the bill because Democrats have prevented its passage.

In 2011, House members voted 241-185 for a resolution that would prohibit the Planned Parenthood abortion business from qualifying for family planning funds. The vote saw almost all Republicans supporting de-funding while Democrats generally opposed it. That was the second vote taken to de-fund the abortion giant. An earlier vote in 2011 saw the House de-funded Planned Parenthood on a 240-185 margin.

Last year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America released its 2013-2014 Annual Report.The report indicates Planned Parenthood did 327,653 abortions in 2013, an increase over the 327,166 abortions it did in 2012.

While it remains America’s biggest abortion corporation, the “nonprofit” continued to make money — bringing in $305.4 million last year and $305.3 million this year. Planned Parenthood continued to receive over a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money, as it took in $540 million in 2012 and $528 million in 2013.

Black told LifeNews in a statement: While Planned Parenthood and its counterparts like to repeat the company line that federal dollars do not directly fund abortions, commonsense tells us differently. According to Planned Parenthood’s own annual report, the organization performed 327, 653 abortions in 2013 alone – all the while receiving more than $528 million in funding from Uncle Sam. The sad truth is they are not alone. Similar organizations continue to threaten the lives of the unborn while cashing in on our tax dollars. My legislation will stop this shameful practice in its tracks.”

Some other takeaways from Planned Parenthood’s own figures:

* In 2013, abortions made up 94% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services. * For every adoption referral, Planned Parenthood performed 174 abortions. * While abortions rose, Planned Parenthood adoption referrals dropped 14% in one year, and prenatal care services dropped 4%. * Planned Parenthood’s cancer prevention services are down 17% over one year, and contraceptive services dropped by 4%.

* During fiscal year 2013-2014, Planned Parenthood received more than $528 million in taxpayer funding, or more than $1.4 million per day, in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. * Taxpayer funding accounts for 41% of Planned Parenthood’s overall revenue. * Planned Parenthood reported more than $127 million in excess revenue, and more than $1.4 billion in net assets.

[SaveFerris]

[“It’s crazy. Let’s repeal the Affordable Care Act while we’re at it.”]

Sounds great. Two-fer.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hopalong Dingy Harry Reid is one of the original baby killers. He has a pretty high body count. Right Dingy?

[skeeter]

I wonder what Larry Reid would charge to do a late term abortion on his brother?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Republicans are once again trying to take away basic health care services for 2.7 million women,” said Sen. Patty Murray (RAT-Wash).

Butchering babies IS NOT "basic health care services" for women. Bitch!

“It’s ridiculous. Women use this for health care in a big, big way,” Tester said. “It’s crazy. Let’s repeal the Affordable Care Act while we’re at it.”

Yes, let's do.

[VR-21]

All we have to worry about are the RINO’s.

[SaveFerris]

[“Good luck with that,” Reid said on Tuesday.]

True to form.

[DaxtonBrown]

Cat is out of the bag. Let Planned Parenthood twist in the wind as its money is choked off and lawsuits begin.

[Liz]

Looking Away From Abortion
New York Times ^ | July 25, 2015 | By Ross Douthat / / FR Posted by Brad from Tennessee

In an essay in his 1976 collection, “Mortal Lessons,” the physician, Richard Selzer, describes a strange suburban scene. People go outside in the morning in his neighborhood, after the garbage trucks have passed, and find “a foreignness upon the pavement,” a softness underfoot.

Looking down, Dr Selzer first thinks he sees oversize baby birds, then rubber baby dolls, until the realization comes that the street is littered with the tiny, naked, all-too-human bodies of aborted fetuses.

Later, the local hospital director speaks to Dr Selzer, trying to impose order on the grisly scene. It was an accident, ofcourse: The tiny corpses were accidentally “mixed up with the other debris” instead of being incinerated or interred. “It is not an everyday occurrence. Once in a lifetime, he says.”

And Dr Selzer tries to nod along: “Now you see. It is orderly. It is sensible. The world is not mad. This is still a civilized society."

“But just this once, you know it isn’t. You saw, and you know.”

But the reluctance to look closely doesn’t change the truth of what there is to see. Those were dead human beings on Richard Selzer’s street 40 years ago, and these are dead human beings being discussed on video today:

Human beings that the nice, idealistic medical personnel at Planned Parenthood have spent their careers crushing, evacuating, and carving up for parts. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....

[mrsmel]

Yep, kabuki for the sheep. But just in case any GOPe’ers are feeling their oats, Reid reminds them who’s running things.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

They don’t want any ‘baby mammas’ from the call girls they boink. Direct....but true.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Is killing baby girls considered healthcare now?

I’d like to see our side ask that question.

[Liz]

OBAMA BLESSES PLANNED PARENTHOOD (dismembering savagery ok'ed using Obama's reasoning)

Obama recently stated that the Abortion industry in America is blessed by God... “As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way,” said Obama. “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”

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2004 BACKSTORY In February 2004, then-US Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from performing p/b abortions (stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls).

Michelle Obama considers partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure," and asked supporters for $150 to attend a luncheon for her candidate husband, b/c he would fight against "cynical ploys" to stop p/b sbortions.

(NOTE: nurses at an Illinois hospital in 1999 discovered babies were being aborted alive and placed on shelves in soiled utility rooms to die unattended.)

BACKGROUND Legislation was presented on the federal level and in various states called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. It stated all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted.

BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to "choose" stopped at her baby's delivery. The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the US House.

NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.

But in Obama's Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. It only passed in 2005, after Obama left. Obama articulately asserted that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights (The very same judicial reasoning used to approve dismemberment of aborted babies).

In 2003, as chairman of the next state Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion chambers.

(NOTE As chair of that same committee, state Sen Obama once abruptly ended a hearing early, right before the parents of six children killed as a result of Illinois' drivers licenses-for-bribes scandal, were to testify in favor of Choose Life

[GilGil]

If all the Republican attorneys general went after PP and opened some 30 investigations that would crush PP out of biz regardless of what the congress does.

[GilGil]

If all the Republican attorneys general went after PP and opened some 30 investigations that would crush PP out of biz regardless of what the congress does.

[txrefugee]

Any church that buries Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi is not Christian. These ungodly maggots in the body politic should be thrown in a land fill as they did with the millions of innocent babies whose killing they supported.

[windsorknot]

Harry, exercise!

[Roman_War_Criminal]

This is the same Harry who’s 75 and pushing 80?

Wanna bet you’ll regret those words Harry?
Wanna bet you’ll regret your choices and voting patterns?
Mob ties?
Evil choices?

[SaveFerris]

Uh oh - darn facts

[onyx]

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