While Congressional Republicans don’t have the votes, House Speaker Paul Ryan says it’s about sending a message to President Obama and teeing up a campaign issue in this election year.
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Spokespersons for Planned Parenthood have maintained that they were reimbursed only for expenses.
Enter Sen. Peggy Lehner, the Dayton-area Republican who, in the midst of a heated debate, offered a good summation of proponents’ position, without the usual doublespeak that spews from the mouths of politicians. This should not be a conversation about abortion.
“I think this is the way the majority of Kentuckians believe that women should have full access to medical consultation”, Adams said.
Merritt is facing a charge of tampering with a government record for printing the licence. The approval by U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker strengthens Planned Parenthoods bid to reverse the state’s decision in August 2015 to halt funding after the videos surfaced in July 2015. He sent Planned Parenthood an email offering $1,600 per sample, an offer Planned Parenthood ignored.
From the start, Planned Parenthood and its Houston lawyer Josh Schaffer settled on a strategy of cooperating with investigators, said Rochelle Tafolla, a spokeswoman for the affiliate. And facts don’t matter. It receives about half its revenue through federal funding. Abortions, moreover, account for a small fraction – 3 percent – of Planned Parenthood services.
She added that the bill is necessary “only because Planned Parenthood has chosen – you like the word choice – they have chosen to be the leading abortion provider in this nation”. Such research advances medical science and could lead to life-saving vaccines and cures for diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS.
The people who broke the law to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood in order to advance their extreme anti-abortion political agenda are now charged with felonies.
“There’s too much at stake for us to take a back seat in this election”.
“And I go to great efforts to demonstrate what the cost, actual cost is to us – to whomever asks – and then, this is what is budgeted”, she continued.
Not surprisingly, Democrats in Columbus and around the country joined the New York Times in urging Kasich to veto the Planned Parenthood defunding bill. No fewer than three separate inquiries – by the Texas attorney general’s office, the Health and Human Services Commission and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee – continue, all sparked by the now widely discredited videos.
Defunding Planned Parenthood will not deter abortion. “This essential organization provides vital, life-saving screenings and support to millions of women throughout NY”. “But equally as any other investigative journalist working for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, or your local print or electronic media outlet may regularly resort to undercover journalism tactics to ferret out hidden crime, so too David Daleiden should have the right to penetrate the criminal underworld of America’s abortion providers and report all the evidence he has uncovered of criminal wrongdoing to law enforcement and to members of the public”.
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The Planned Parenthood conversation is a pro-life one that’s about accessible, affordable, quality women’s health care.
