Once that happens today, McConnell will quickly need to start the procedural gears turning on a continuing resolution to keep government operations going past September 30, if he faces procedural objections from Republicans not satisfied with the anti-abortion vote.
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“The temple has long history of supporting Planned Parenthood through our social action allocations, as well as having them come into our religious school to speak with families about safe and sacred choices”, Mackler said.
Planned Parenthood now receives about $450 million in federal funds every year.
Senate Democrats have already blocked the GOP from cutting Planned Parenthood’s money, and seem likely to derail McConnell’s bill on Thursday. A request for comment by National Right to Life went unanswered.
In Tuesday’s House debate, McConnell described human features visible in fetal sonograms and said scientists say that fetuses can feel pain 20 weeks into development – an assertion that Democrats and many doctors contest.
Highlighting a Republican divide on the issue, Sen. He also has said that efforts to halt Planned Parenthood’s money won’t succeed unless Obama is replaced by a Republican president in next year’s elections. That’s the view of Congressman Tom Reed.
“The pro-life movement is a movement of miracles”, says McClusky.
“I think we should stand firm and not fund Planned Parenthood, plain and simple….” With the hopes that anti-Planned Parenthood Republicans in the House and Senate get the message that their quest is unrealistic, McConnell will then bring a short-term government funding bill that would continue funding Planned Parenthood to the floor, according to CNN. Hard-line traditionalists like Cruz are pushing for Republicans in Congress to strip Planned Parenthood of its elected financing by any methods fundamental, including an administration shutdown. He is chairman of the Freedom Caucus, a splinter group of the House’s most-conservative Republicans.
“There is some disagreement over the current strategy but not the end result”, he said.
In an interview with Iowa television station KCCI, Rubio referred to the release of undercover videos by an anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress.
Jeff Teague, the executive director of Planned Parenthood of Middle & East Tennessee, told The Tennessean, “The Temple was very generous in offering us the space there”.
McClusky believes it is important too for lawmakers to get back to the normal appropriations process and said the pro-life achievements have been “stagnant” because of the “dysfunctional appropriations process”.
“I am getting more optimistic that there will not be a shutdown”.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at the 2014 Values Voter Summit in Washington, Friday, September 26, 2014. “The sooner this legislation becomes law, the better”. The House could take up the Senate’s so-called “clean” stopgap funding measure, or move their own version.
