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| Senate blocks GOP bill to halt PP fed funds. Lindsey Graham AWOL. |
| 2015-08-04 |
| [AP] The Senate blocked a Republican drive Monday to terminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood, setting the stage for the GOP to try again this fall amid higher stakes -- a potential government shutdown that could echo into next year's presidential and congressional elections. The derailed legislation was the Republican response to videos, recorded secretly by anti-abortion activists, showing Planned Parenthood officials dispassionately discussing how they sometimes provide medical researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses. Those videos have led conservatives to accuse the group of illegally selling the organs for profit -- strongly denied by Planned Parenthood -- and inserted abortion and women's health into the mix of issues to be argued in the 2016 campaign. Monday's mostly party-line vote was 53-46 to halt Democratic delays aimed at derailing the bill, seven short of the 60 votes the Republicans needed. Even so, the GOP is hoping to reap political gains because the videos have ignited the party's core conservative, anti-abortion voters. Abortion parts party wins. Graham too busy elsewhere to be concerned about the unborn. Related: Dr. Ben Carson - Let Planned Parenthood find other depraved people to support them. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Because it's a lot cheaper than lifelong welfare payments/price of incarceration? No, they have that covered with the millions of imported voters to make up for those they've dumped into the bucket. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-04 20:50 |
| #11 Don't know what happened. I don't usually stutter. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-08-04 18:36 |
| #10 Ever the practical one. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-04 17:25 |
| #9 Remind me again why taxpayer money is going for abortions? Because it's a lot cheaper than lifelong welfare payments/price of incarceration? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-04 16:24 |
| #8 Deacon, you can say that again. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-04 16:16 |
| #7 Harry Reid said, "The Republicans have lost their moral compass". Funny, Harry, you don't even have one to lose. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-08-04 16:02 |
| #6 Harry Reid said, "The Republicans have lost their moral compass". Funny, Harry, you don't even have one to lose. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-08-04 16:02 |
| #5 ...in third world countries that get sonograms, most are. There's 'free choice' for you. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-04 11:50 |
| #4 They try to hang their murderous hats on "wymn's rights." Seems a bit strange since at least half of the infants aborted.... are female. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-08-04 11:41 |
| #3 Simple fact. We elected a majority of Republicans, and we still don't control the Senate. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-08-04 11:17 |
| #2 Interesting that abortions statistically remove a lot more future voters for abortion than against it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-08-04 10:34 |
| #1 Remind me again why taxpayer money is going for abortions? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-04 09:39 |