The shootings in Colorado Springs on November 27 have caused the enduring fight over abortion and federal funding for Planned Parenthood to resurface. These facts and overall mission of the abortion industry would easily send anyone over the hill who wasn’t rational.
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“We do condone protesting outside abortion clinics”, says Wallace, “Where they are proactively killing babies inside prayer sessions for people who feel they have to kill their own child”.
Planned Parenthood critics in Congress want the government to stop providing funding for the group because it offers abortion services.
Planned Parenthood Southeast does provide abortion services at their clinics in Birmingham or Mobile.
Still, the videos have prompted five congressional investigations and more in the states – as well as an aggressive outreach from abortion opponents across the country to defund Planned Parenthood.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, who released a statement over the weekend urging Speaker Paul Ryan to disband the Planned Parenthood committee, said the motive of the shooter is irrelevant because attacks on abortion providers are not new and lawmakers have to be careful about targeting such groups.
“I do not see a shutdown happening”, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol on Monday as lawmakers returned to Washington from their Thanksgiving recess.
I think it’s important to recognize that words matter.
“We as leaders must be mindful of our words and actions”, Reid said on the Senate floor.
To make matters even more troubling, Gov. Bentley admitted that he never even consulted the southeast Planned Parenthood affiliate before pulling its contract.
Democrats have said they are participating in that panel to be able to defend Planned Parenthood.
This sort of hateful rhetoric “has real impact”, Richards said, adding that some of the most heated language is in the presidential campaign.
“Given that especially in the last few months that this rhetoric has picked up, these attacks have picked up and protest activity has picked up, we’re not going to let down our guard”.
Security at Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide has been tightened as a result, said the organization’s spokesman, Eric Ferrero. He credited security training of the staff at the Colorado Springs clinic for helping minimize the casualties there.
The joint motion today says the state will pay $51,000 in legal fees for Planned Parenthood Southeast’s attorneys if Thompson approves the motion.
When Republicans talk about “defunding” Planned Parenthood, as almost all of the GOP presidential candidates have, they’re talking about cutting off millions of patients from life-saving preventive care and a provider they know and trust. And I fear we have not seen the last of it.
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Figures for 2015 had yet to be compiled, but the trend, according to the federation, is clear since the July release of the videos, which Planned Parenthood were doctored to misrepresent its stance.
