Democrats Vow to Fight Planned Parenthood Defunding

“Planned Parenthood legislation will be in our reconciliation bill”, Ryan told reporters at a news conference Thursday, according to theWashington Post.

“I would ask the president-elect to Twitter very loudly tomorrow morning – when he does this – that he stands behind women and that he wants the House to back him”, Murray said.

Demonstrators cheer U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion ruling that overturns Texas law.

Congressional Republicans have tried for years to zero out all federal funding for Planned Parenthood because the group provides abortion services. The legislative language would allow legislation to kill the group’s funding to clear the Senate on a simple majority vote by escaping a certain filibuster.

“Congress should do what the House of Representatives has twice voted to do: end taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s most profitable abortionist, once and for all”, said ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden.

“We commend Speaker Paul Ryan on his continued resolve to fund women’s health care, not abortion”.

But throwing over women’s collective health for abortion access (which is a reported 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides), smacks of another sentiment that veterans of 2015 and 2012 political cycles cycles are all too familiar with: that women’s health is always expendable for a larger political gain.

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette said Ryan’s announcement showed “that he means business” and is “going to double down on taking away women’s health care coverage”.

An impact Planned Parenthood opponents would like to see.

While there is no doubt the repeal of the Affordable Care Act is a top priority for the Republicans, it is unclear whether the party would be prepared to forego attempts to defund Planned Parenthood to achieve this.

Eden Dyer, a barista who works at a Portland coffee shop, said the expertise of the Planned Parenthood staff may have saved her from a life of agony. “Obamacare has failed, is getting worse and we have to provide relief”.

Republicans’ effort to defund Planned Parenthood are likely to be helped by the incoming Donald Trump administration.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards explained that this is really just about ending access to everything that would stop an unintended pregnancy, including family planning. Yet they, and the women who seek medical services there, continue to be vilified. Still, a defunding of Planned Parenthood would strike a blow to women’s health and carry many long-lasting ramifications across society.

Ryan’s comments drew immediate criticism from Nicole Safar, a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, who said that in many cases her group’s patients would struggle to find other health-care providers in their area who accepted Medicaid coverage.