House GOP leader: No shutdown over Planned Parenthood
Read the full text of Boxer’s letter, after the jump…
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York operates 10 health centers and a mobile unit in an 18-county area.
The Senate is turning to a rare opportunity to employ fast-track procedures to pass a bill to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and “defund” Planned Parenthood. The claims have been debunked. When taken into custody Friday night, Dear told police: “No more baby parts”.
Lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to wrap up work on the budget, highway spending and taxes, an end-of-the-year stretch that will test the standing of Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan with the GOP’s tea party wing and its anti-establishment presidential candidates.
The other aspect of all this is the incendiary nature of the language used by abortion opponents, to such a grotesque degree that violence seems nearly inevitable. And this committee is the same way. Her husband later called Stewart to say she was unavailable.
Schakowsky said the Democratic members of select committee will meet Tuesday to come up with a broader plan moving forward on how to counter Republicans on the issue. At no point does it mention Planned Parenthood. To be harvested for their heads? Free Speech has brought to light the insidious selling of baby body parts (pph has no shame). Most of the hearing he remained silent and kept his eyes closed. Republican lawmakers in response launched investigations of abortion in the state, including practices at the Columbia clinic and its relationship with nearby University of Missouri.
Incidents of harassment at Planned Parenthood facilities jumped ninefold after the videos were released in July, according to the National Abortion Federation’s complaint. But they have all but dismissed the possibility of a dramatic government shutdown over the group.
“If Carly Fiorina can not put two and two together and acknowledge that the man murdering people at Planned Parenthood while mumbling about a Republican-pushed conspiracy theory about Planned Parenthood is indeed “linked” to that Republican-pushed conspiracy theory about Planned Parenthood, she is (one) stupid, (two) a psychopath and (three) unequivocally unfit for public office”, the Daily Kos continued.
A bloc of conservatives are pressuring GOP leaders to strip government funding for the organization after videos released by an anti-abortion group earlier this year featured officials from Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of fetal tissue.
“I do not see a shutdown happening”, Mr. McCarthy said.
“We have a saying at Planned Parenthood that we use over and over again, ‘These doors stay open, ‘ ” Barbara Zdravecky, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Florida and Central Florida, said at a news conference in Sarasota.
In October, Judge Myron Thompson, who ordered the removal of a Ten Commandments monument placed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in 2003, agreed with the abortion giant, ruling that the contract must be restored because the absence of Medicaid funding would interfere with women’s choices in what organization they wished to use for reproductive services.