But House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., also indicated that the Republican-run Congress will not risk a government shutdown fight with President Barack Obama over GOP efforts to halt federal funding for the organization, which provides abortions and other health services to women. The agreement still must be approved by a U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
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Alabama has ended its legal battle to defund Planned Parenthood.
“We are pleased that Planned Parenthood can get back to its commitment to protecting access to care in the state of Alabama which remains its number one priority”, said Susan Watson, executive director of the Alabama ACLU, which represented Planned Parenthood in the suit.
On August 6, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (photo above) terminated the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood, after an anti-abortion group released those now infamous videos edited to make it seem as if Planned Parenthood officials were negotiating prices for tissue from aborted fetuses.
“Since the attacks on Planned Parenthood, there’s been this uptick in attacks on clinics – vandalism and attempted arson and now three murders”, said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democratic member of the select committee who also called the shooting a “terrorist attack” in an interview with BuzzFeed News. John Pisciotta, who heads the pro-life group, tells OneNewsNow the project began when the conservative website 2ndVote.com added Bank of America to its list of major corporate donors to Planned Parenthood. But Mr. McCarthy said he expects Congress would pass the spending bill by December 11 or in the following week. They say the boy used a hatchet to destroy computers, plumbing fixtures, phones and medical equipment inside the clinic.
Nine states have cleared the clinics of any wrongdoing in connection with Planned Parenthood’s limited fetal-tissue donation program.
In mid October, national Planned Parenthood announced that its local affiliates would stop receiving money for the fetal organs. Instead of pointing fingers at the Right, he said liberals should closely examine just how intolerant their own rhetoric can be toward intolerant rhetoric, which could have just as plausibly triggered the Colorado Springs rampage.
The Department of Health and Human Services warned Bentley after his announcement that canceling the contract could violate federal law.
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Security at Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide has been tightened as a result, said the organization’s spokesman, Eric Ferrero.
