[DAILYCALLER] House Republicans are moving forward with efforts to keep taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party.
and other abortion providers.
The House voted 230-188 Thursday to repeal a regulation that prohibits states from defunding organizations that perform abortions, including Planned Parenthood, by far the largest American abortion provider. Planned Parenthood performs one out of every three abortions in the U.S., according to the Heritage Foundation.
The abortion ban was put in place by Congress Jan. 18, just two days before President B.O. left office. The B.O. regime pushed through a rule that targeted family planning funding under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, requiring that states treat all health providers equally, whether they perform abortions or not.
"Why is it necessary for those services to be funded at the nation’s largest provider of abortions?" Republican Alabama Rep. Martha Roby said. "It isn’t, of course, but the abortion industry and its supporters want us to think it is."
Republican Texas Rep. Michael Burgess, who heads the health subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy, said the vote was a positive step towards returning power to the states.
"In the final hours of the B.O. regime, a rule was pushed through that dramatically reduced states’ authority to allocate Title X funding as they see fit," Burgess said in a statement. "We believe that states have the right to choose the health care providers that best serve the needs of their local communities and the B.O. regime’s rule undermines that critical authority."