Cruz, Christie and Fiorina all alluded to a series of heavily edited videos produced by antiabortion activists that have become a flash point in efforts by congressional Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood.
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President Obama plans to veto the Defund Planned Parenthood Act if it makes it through the Senate, which is good news on account of the dramatic inaccuracies in which the bill is rooted, and the nonsensical consequences it would cause.
“It is imperative that Congress do everything within its power to investigate these reports and take immediate action to stop them”, the letter read.
Those who think that they are paying for “killing babies” with their tax dollars by funding Planned Parenthood are completely uninformed.
“Democrats are ready to sit down and negotiate with Republicans right now”, Obama said in his weekly address Saturday.
And some presidential candidates answered.
In August, Graham issued a lengthy criticism of those in Congress who did not support the defunding of Planned Parenthood, reminding the politicians that they will one day stand before God and be held accountable for the blood of innocent children.
In McConnell’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, Sandra Dittmeier said Republicans should not be “holding the government hostage” over Planned Parenthood. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., isn’t expected to have enough votes to pass in the U.S. Senate. “I have seen excerpts from them”, Clinton said, “and what I am troubled by are the misleading, inaccurate allegations about them that we heard from Republicans at their debate“. Comparatively, 327,000 abortions were performed by Planned Parenthood previous year . Politico reported aides close to the speaker say he is “intent” on averting a government shutdown over the group’s federal funding. “It will undermine the Republican brand, and it will hurt whoever the Republican nominee is in November”.
Each year, Planned Parenthood health centers provide essential healthcare, such as cancer screenings and immunizations, to 2.7 million patients. An estimated 41 percent of the organization’s revenue is derived from government sources.
The federal government could be headed for a shutdown at the end of the month, over funding for Planned Parenthood. “He’s acknowledged we have to do something about sequestration caps, he’s talked about having a clean CR, I appreciate that very much“, Reid said “Because this is a serious time for our country and we’ve got to get past 20-week abortion ban show votes because the pope’s coming”.
The United States economy lost an estimated billion.
Still, those urging the Republican Party to pursue the most aggressive strategy possible to defund Planned Parenthood said the fight is substantively different from the 2013 battle to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Democrats say House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has agreed to a hearing next week in order to keep the issue alive just as Congress is considering a bill to fund the government. There was a scene in one of the videos that shows a woman describing something similar to what Fiorina said was in the video, but that was actually a 19-week old fetus that was still born, not an aborted fetus.
