On the other side, Jim Minnery of Alaska Family Action, has been urging his anti-abortion followers to tell Murkowski to support the bill. The committee is charged with determining if any Missouri branches of the organization are profiting from the sale of this tissue, which is in violation of state and federal law.
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Planned Parenthood and Democrats contest that.
Under the bill, Connecticut’s Planned Parenthood facilities would lose about $2 million in grants and millions more in Medicaid payments.
Republican arguments that community health centers can take over the care of those patients ignore the fact that more than half of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are in rural areas or medically underserved communities where women have few alternatives for care, Democrats said.
The senate did not come up with enough votes to shut down federal funding for Planned Parenthood on Monday.
In the first video released, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director for medical services, spoke about selling baby body parts while eating a salad and drinking wine.
States typically haven’t been successful in removing Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs in the past, losing in court, said Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues advocate at the institute.
“When the Senate last voted to defund Planned Parenthood, only 42 voted for it. Since that 2011 effort, things have only gotten worse for the nation’s largest abortion provider”.
“Republicans like Scott Walker and Jeb Bush are calling to defund Planned Parenthood, the country’s leading provider of reproductive healthcare”, Clinton says in the video. Joni Ernst (R-IA) that would have prohibited federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood, as well as made those funds “available” to other entities that provide women’s health services. Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted to open debate on the bill in order to introduce her own legislation as a substitute, which would require the Department of Justice to investigate whether Planned Parenthood had violated the law and report to Congress within 90 days. Instead, the group uses the money to provide women with birth control, cancer screenings, annual checkups, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and other services.
Conservatives view the videos as a huge political opportunity to galvanize support for banning abortions and, some hope, prohibiting fetal tissue research.
“If this feels like a full-on assault on women’s health, that’s because it is”, Clinton said in a two-minute video. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky – calling for Congress to end Planned Parenthood’s federal assistance. Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, are among several saying little about how they will vote.
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A Planned Parenthood ally, NARAL Pro-Choice America, said it would run TV ads this week attacking three GOP senators seeking re-election in 2016: Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Rob Portman of Ohio and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
