At last night’s Republican presidential debate, pro-life candidate Carly Fiorina dares pro-abortion President Barack Obama and abortion activist Hillary Clinton to watch the shocking expose’ videos showing Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts. Shimkus will also participate in a Health Subcommittee hearing on legislation to bolster the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. In fact, that was just what the Senate’s Planned Parenthood defunding bill would do. All of Missouri’s Republican House members are co-sponsoring the bill, including east central Missouri’s Blaine Luetkemeyer. “This is about the character of our nation, and if we will not stand up and force President Obama to veto this bill, then shame on us!”
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Additionally, Wednesday, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, warned the federal government could actually shut down over the issue of Planned Parenthood’s funding. This is one of many steps that we are going to try and take. However, the company grabs over $500 million federal cash per year but they are not used for abortions.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also said that the government should completely shutdown on October . 1 in order to stop funding Planned Parenthood: “We got to talk about what we would be willing to shut down for”. “In contrast, Planned Parenthood has already provided multiple briefings to Congress, produced thousands of pages of documents, and cooperated at every stage of the investigation”.
She continued, suggesting that she would call Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei-which would mark a striking shift in relations between the United States and Iran.
Some conservatives want to punish women’s healthcare provider Planned Parenthood by denying the group federal funds.
They released a statement that said, “Extremists who oppose Planned Parenthood’s mission and services are making outrageous and completely false claims”.
Cole said he thinks that allowing the votes in the House will “show movement across the floor and that we are serious about this”, which could relive some pressure from conservatives and allow the short-term funding bill to go forward.
Candidates in both the prime time debate and the earlier second tier event took aim at congressional Republicans for not being tougher on the issue.
McCain said, “I will not vote to shut down the government”.
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Although the women at the round table, including Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Raven-Symoné, Paula Faris and Michelle Collins, did acknowledge that the former Hewlett Packard CEO “won the debate”, Collins says she was “enraged” by Fiorina’s stance on women’s issues.
