Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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The most interesting element, though, is not on the video.
House members tussle on Twitter over Planned Parenthood.
The onslaught on women’s health care, even if unsuccessful, does serious harm – creating uncertainty and apprehension among women who seek out Planned Parenthood for confidential advice and service in a place they regard as nonjudgmental, safe and supportive. While a majority of senators favored consideration of the proposal, the attempt to invoke cloture, as it is known, fell short of the 60 votes needed to begin debate on the legislation and establish a path to its passage. He’s joined the list to defund the company in Louisiana and he says abortions aren’t performed in his state.
It is feared that the release of the video will have negative funding implications for research in this field. (People joke about what they are thinking, and the thought was captured for us all to see.).
Casey Mattox, senior counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a written statement, “Not one more penny should go to Planned Parenthood, a billion-dollar abortion dealer caught on camera negotiating the sale of hearts, lungs, and livers from aborted babies”.
Planned Parenthood assures participants that the organization will keep “personal health information…”
Combined, the Louisville and Lexington Planned Parenthood offices saw more than 4,700 patients a year ago. Hart Research also polled swing states Ohio and Pennsylvania, where incumbent Republican U.S. senators are also seeking reelection.
Although Planned Parenthood’s most recent controversy revolves around “fetal tissue” trafficking, the organization is no stranger to eyebrow-raising activities.
Unless Planned Parenthood and the “abortion as birth control” people change their message, I think they will be defunded, and this 40-year-old experiment with human life will come to a stop.
A band of black pastors called for the removal of the bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in a letter on Friday. “As a doctor and Alabama’s governor, the issue of human life, from conception to birth and beyond, is extremely important”. And humanity will be left a chance to recover its sense of compassion and respect, and its belief in the unlimited possibilities that come with accepting life.
Once the abortion was complete, the fetus and everything suctioned was placed into a jar or tube and sent to a lab where a technician would empty the material onto a dish, similar to what was shown in the fourth and fifth video released from the Center for Medical Progress.
The Planned Parenthood videos, in other words, are no more authentic than the infamous Breitbart videos, which led to the firing of Department of Agriculture executive Shirley Sherrod back in 2010.
As part of the GOP’s ongoing fight against Planned Parenthood, poor, uninsured women in Texas will soon be unable to obtain government-subsidized breast and cervical cancer screenings at the organization’s clinics.
She’s not buying my argument that, as a man, I have to defer to women and trust them to make their own choices about what to do with their bodies. Elizabeth Warren asked on the Senate floor.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, meanwhile, has not backed away from a shutdown, promising to use “every procedural means” available to block the more than $500 million in federal grants allocated to the group annually. They’re also gearing up a congressional investigation into the organization.
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Current law already prevents federal funds from being used for abortion.
