The U.S. Senate on Thursday stopped an effort by Republicans to deny federal funding for women’s healthcare provider Planned Parenthood as part of a bill keeping government agencies operating on October. 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
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“The House of Representatives has both the constitutional authority and legislative power to act now, since House leadership could use its same-day rule authority to bring a continuing resolution to the floor for a vote this week, and we should do so”, he said. Planned Parenthood’s claim that abortion makes up “3 percent” of its services is conjured up by parceling out each individual service it does, from a pregnancy test to a pap smear, even if all of these services are done at one visit, with one client, which is a gross manipulation of their numbers.
“Johnathan Newman (Pastor at Koinos Church) called me and said, ‘Dale, what are we going to do?'” he said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is expected to introduce a “clean” continuing resolution-one that does not strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding-later this afternoon.
In supporting passage of a government-wide spending bill free of the Planned Parenthood rider, McSally said, “We don’t need low-income women who are trying to get access to birth control and preventative health to be collateral damage to the whole thing”.
The group says it has done nothing wrong and that the videos are unfair and deceptive.
In a sign of how concerned House GOP leaders are about the vote, Boehner summoned to his office some of the conservatives who are threatening him.
Planned Parenthood has come under fire in recent weeks over allegations that it improperly sells fetal tissue from abortions following a string of secretly filmed videos posted online by an anti-abortion group. “It just won’t be made available through Planned Parenthood“, explained Gov. Herbert. But on Wednesday some first-term House Republicans sent an open letter urging party colleagues not to take any steps that would lead to a shutdown.
Eleven GOP House freshmen – several facing hard re-election races next year in Democratic-leaning districts – say they oppose a shutdown confrontation. Conservative hard-liners including Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, were summoned to Boehner’s suite but would not comment on his plans.
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