1) Hold our position and make repeal dependent on defunding PP?
2) Strip out PP and put under its own bill and pass repeal without it?
That is a jump in logic. That is the excuse THEY used. All a yes vote would do is get it to conference with the House. What is so bad about that? Reconciling details would be worked out later and they would have had a chance to influence the bill, and vote against it again if it reached the floor of the Senate again. I think Murkowski and Collins are despicable like Democrats because they make up some lame excuse to vote against the bill because they are leftists who actually want government run healthcare.
But they certainly have fundamental moral shortcomings, in my mind, if they even use Planned Parenthood for an excuse. That is my real point. Planned Parenthood is nothing but a baby murdering machine.