More fights ahead on Planned Parenthood after Senate vote

Senate Republicans were seven votes short of the necessary 60 to pass a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest provider of abortions, has said the videos are taken out of context.

The fight already is creating heated talking points for Republican presidential candidates. Several of them, including Sens.

Conservatives see that as an opportunity to keep Planned Parenthood money out of those bills. However, Planned Parenthood officials have repeatedly denied the allegation. The women’s health organization has said the videos are maliciously edited and misrepresent the organization’s work.

“Its our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters, our granddaughters” from the GOPs “absurd policies, ” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

But those Indiana clinics would have lost their funding if this Republican effort had succeeded. A procedural senate vote that would have cut federal funds for Planned Parenthood failed.

What’s more, Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell voted to legalize “reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue” associated with elective abortions back in 1993. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was absent…

Later Tuesday morning, The Center for Medical Progress released a fifth video that claims to show a Planned Parenthood official discussing the sale of fetal tissue. He said he had now requested information from Planned Parenthood affiliates, private companies involved in the process and the Center for Medical Progress. In the exchange, Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admits she and her co-worker would find it enjoyable if a tissue buyer wanted them to dissect dead fetuses for parts.

President Obama has said he would veto legislation focused on wholesale defunding for the non-profit organization.

Republicans expected to lose but envisioned political gain because the videos have fired up their core conservative, anti-abortion voters.

According to Politico, Cruz and Trump want to add a rider that would defund Planned Parenthood onto a spending bill that needs to be passed by September 30.

Guttmacher also says 27% of all women in the United States who obtain contraceptive services do so at a publicly funded health center that provides family planning services, such as Planned Parenthood. The state’s two Planned Parenthood clinics do not provide abortions. The bill would have stripped Planned Parenthood of its more than $500 Million in federal funds.

“So they do (abortions) in a way that they get the best specimens”, Farrell said.

The federal government also does not pay for any abortions, including PP, with exception for cases of rape, incest and health risks posed to a woman.