Republican Plot To Defund Planned Parenthood Fails in Senate

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Democrats triumph in yesterday’s senate vote designed to defund Planned Parenthood, long a thorn in the sides of the Bible Banging republicans.  Our friends at TheWeek summarize the story for us:

Pic courtesy MSNBC.com
Pic courtesy MSNBC.com

On Monday, Senate Democrats blocked a Republican effort to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood with a mostly party-line vote of 53-46, seven votes shy of the 60 needed to advance.

The measure, sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), was in response to videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists that show officials from Planned Parenthood talking about providing medical researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses.

Conservatives say that the organization is doing this illegally for profit, while Planned Parenthood denies the allegations and says the videos are edited. Conservatives in the House and Senate are already saying that in the fall, they will oppose any 2016 spending bills that include federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

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Marsha Woerner
8 years ago

… And we all know that the battle is far from over…

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