House votes to cut funding to Planned Parenthood

The bill would also require medical practitioners or employees of hospitals, clinics or physician’s offices to report to law enforcement agencies any violation they witnessed.

In the four corners of the leadership, only the Senate Republican team is without a prominent Catholic face.

While I am pleased that the house passed this legislation this week, our ultimate goal is not only to defund Planned Parenthood for a year, but to completely eliminate the use of taxpayer funds for abortions. When it comes to defunding Planned Parenthood, the issue should not be partisan. “When I ran for governor in New Jersey all the political pundits said I couldn’t win”.

At the rally, Planned Parenthood supporters were instructed by organizers to not respond to protesters.

Secondly, not supporting Planned Parenthood in general could also mean a blow to potential medical discoveries.

While the nation and its federal legislators have become more religiously diverse overall, the congressional Catholic population has grown steadily: 31 percent of today’s lawmakers say they belong to the church, but only 22 percent of their constituents do. “We’re here to help them”.

The governor’s standing South Carolina could explain why Christie has spent more time in states like Iowa and New Hampshire in recent months, but, as one speaker alluded to during his forum speech, it’s possible there’s still a path to victory for those who are not the party’s favorite among conservative Southern voters.

Singing hymns and donning shirts reading, “Jesus is the Standard”, members of OSA emphasized being pro-life as a religious stance. House conservatives, like Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, want Boehner to stand with them, not only on Planned Parenthood, but on budget caps and on a debt ceiling fight that’s just around the corner.

A member of Operation Save America preaches to Planned Parenthood supporters through a fence lined with blue plastic to protect the identities of supporters. Though every candidate agrees Planned Parenthood should be de-funded, there is broad disagreement on a strategy.

Junior Marc Maguire, speaking as a representative of WU Students for Life, Wash.

Keep in mind that more Planned Parenthood videos are waiting in the wings, says ACG Analytics.

The videos, even to one of Planned Parenthood’s most ardent supporters, are disturbing.

“[Negotiations over the budget] should be over legitimate issues like how much do we invest in education, job training, and infrastructure – not unrelated ideological issues like [the abortion provider] Planned Parenthood“, Obama said in his weekly address.

Maguire said that Students for Life was not partial to the non-secular argument. Unless you are opposed to all abortions under any circumstances regardless of the consequences, a late-term abortion ban raises complicated medical and ethical questions.

“Stop and think what the left is trying to convince us of”, he said.

We just have to make the right choices. Actual objections raised on the floor alleging “merely incidental” budget effects are relatively rare (see Table 4 here), but that obscures any deterrent effects of the rule; after all, legislators may simply avoid including problematic provisions, knowing the Parliamentarian may strike them down. Or the 516,000 unintentional pregnancies they prevent?

In this case, there isn’t even a plan to bring up similar legislation in the Senate, where there seem to be a few more grown-ups (although unfortunately, none of them are running for president).

It is people who do not even bother to do research on the topic that bother me.

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman has said she will not investigate local Planned Parenthood organizations.

Junior Vera Schulte, founder and co-president of Washington University Student Advocates for Reproductive Rights, echoed Basson’s statements. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) is helping lead the charge against Planned Parenthood and has said he doesn’t care what the cost is. Moreover, the donation of embryos and fetuses, while gruesome, is not illegal, so long as the donation is not a for-profit enterprise.