Planned Parenthood pretends it’s a women’s health company. In reality, it’s an abortion mill that traffics in the body parts of the hundreds of thousands of innocent children it exterminates every single year. Thanks to groups like Live Action, we now know the truth.
Republicans care, but President Obama and radical pro choice Democrats didn’t. So they tried to save Planned Parenthood. Yesterday, Congressional Republicans slapped them down.
Via the great Bill McMorris at the Washington Free Beacon:
Republicans passed legislation on Thursday reversing former President Barack Obama’s lame-duck ban on states withholding taxpayer funds from Planned Parenthood.
The resolution will undermine a December order from the Obama administration that prevented states from blocking taxpayer funding of abortion clinics. Bill sponsor Rep. Diane Black (R., Tenn.) said on the House floor that state lawmakers should have the final say over how taxpayer dollars for medical care are distributed in their local communities.
“We are simply voting today to affirm the right of states to fund the healthcare providers that best suit their needs, without fear of reprisal from their own federal government,” Black said in a floor speech before the vote. “As a state legislator, I worked within my authority to make sure that Tennessee honored the will of our pro-life populace and steered our state’s share of Title X dollars away from health care providers that perform abortion.”
State efforts to redirect taxpayer dollars away from abortion clinics began to gain momentum after the Center for Medical Progress released undercover video of Planned Parenthood workers and executives discussing their organ harvesting operations. Lawmakers and governors in 24 states introduced or passed legislation that would have denied funding to the nation’s largest abortion provider, which receives about $500 million from taxpayers each year. If the resolution passes, state lawmakers could once again deny those funds to Planned Parenthood.
This is a win for federalism, and a win for the pro life movement. A country built on the sanctity of individual rights first duty is to protect those rights, and that starts with our most vulnerable.
AAN Staff
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