A measure in the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Friday to temporarily suspend the availability of any funds to Planned Parenthood of America, Inc. or any of its affiliates, for one year during an investigation of the abortion provider. The moratorium of federal funding is entitled the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that would protect babies born alive during abortion by making it a federal crime to kill the baby after it is born, either by an overt act, or through gross negligence. The bill, entitled the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act was introduced by Congressman Trent Franks.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS if she supported a federal limit on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. The Democratic presidential hopeful declared in some cases late-term abortions are necessary
In an appearance on Sunday’s broadcast of Fox News Sunday, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, insisted that if it meant shutting down the government in order to defund Planned Parenthood for its
the Supreme Court is almost certain to announce that it will hear arguments in a new challenge to part of Obamacare, now that a federal appeals court has struck down another part of President Obama’s namesake law.
Columnist Pat Buchanan declared, “Republicans are not going to vote to shut down the government. [Sen.] Harry Reid (D-NV) and his gang will do it” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” After fellow panelist Eleanor Clift said, “it didn’t work out too
Tension is mounting between House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Jim Jordan – both of Ohio – over strategy on how to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of revelations about the abortion giant’s organ harvesting practices.
The undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood’s abortion-and-organ-trading business demonstrated three undeniable facts, says the person who ran the careful and comprehensive operation.
National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill stated that by supporting the defunding of Planned Parenthood, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina “supports policies that kill women” on Friday’s “MSNBC Live.” O’Neill said of Fiorina’s statement on Planned Parenthood during the
The abortion-friendly media are having a heyday challenging Carly Fiorina’s assertion during Wednesday’s debate that on the Planned Parenthood videos you can: “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’”
Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio stated that Republicans aren’t the ones shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood, Democrats are on Thursday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Rubio said, “on the issue of Planned Parenthood, the work should have
President Obama may have gone too far by packing the Pope’s receiving line with a coterie of public dissenters from Catholic doctrine to greet him at the White House during his U.S. visit next week.
New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie argued Republicans should put defunding Planned Parenthood, along with “everything…that he’s going to veto” on the president’s desk and let him veto it on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
The House passed a bill Friday, 241-186, that would place an immediate freeze on all Planned Parenthood federal funding for one year, while Congress investigates the abortion giant following revelations that it harvests the body parts of aborted babies to be sold on the open market.
In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, an attorney asserted that the Obama administration’s actions to protect Planned Parenthood has given the nation’s largest abortion provider a special privilege not given to other Medicaid providers, while also “robbing the states of control over their own state Medicaid programs to protect a politically powerful but ethically and legally challenged organization.”
Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) argued defunding Planned Parenthood is telling “millions” of Americans “You can just die” in a speech on the House floor on Thursday. DeLauro said that by trying to defund Planned Parenthood, “the majority has declared war on the
House Republicans showed the gruesome Planned Parenthood videos in a hearing today. Democrats tried to block them.
Over the past three months, a series of videos exposed Planned Parenthood’s ghoulish practice of harvesting and trafficking of aborted babies’ body parts. Congressional investigations are underway and will expose the extent to which this organization may have violated federal law with regard to the sale of human body parts for profit, altering the abortion procedures used so as to enable the collection of body parts, and partial birth abortion.
Only one national pro-life leader is publicly taking the position that a bill to defund Planned Parenthood attached to must-pass legislation would be harmful to the pro-life cause. “[I] think Planned Parenthood is a vile organization, and I resent the fact that they get any tax money,” Tobias said. “But realistically, with President Obama in the White House holding that veto pen, I don’t know that any government shutdown could accomplish what we want. What we have to do is get a new pro-life president in, and we’d have a much better chance of actually taking away their money.”
Sen. Ted Cruz continued his commitment to defund Planned Parenthood during Wednesday night’s CNN GOP debate, even if it means a federal spending bill does not pass because taxpayer dollars for the abortion business are included in it.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina dared Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama to watch the Planned Parenthood videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, and declared, “if we will not stand up and force
On Wednesday, Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) announced his resignation from the conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) over threats of a government shutdown to defund Planned Parenthood, as well as over past collaboration with Democrats to defeat Republican proposals.
More than 11,000 people participated in a pro-life webcast event saluting the work of David Daleiden, executive director of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), for his efforts to expose Planned Parenthood’s practices of harvesting the body parts of aborted babies and sell them on the open market.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said, “I would vote to defund” Planned Parenthood on Tuesday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Trump was asked [relevant exchange begins around 6:00] about the latest video released by the Center for Medical
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News here in his North Carolina district, Rep. Mark Meadows made extraordinary clear what Boehner would be supporting if he doesn’t fully defund Planned Parenthood as part of the must-pass government funding legislation. If Boehner uses tax dollars to keep funding Planned Parenthood, Meadows says, he will be publicly supporting that organization’s activities including its selling of aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder.
