Noem votes to cut funding to Planned Parenthood

Three Republicans voted against the defunding bill while 183 Democrats voted against it. Republican Steve King of Iowa vote present.

“Some of my colleagues have tried to dismiss these videos even without ever watching them”, said Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., the bill’s sponsor.

HR 3504 was one of two pro-life bills brought before Congress on Friday as the federal government nears the deadline for a possible government shutdown that some believe may come over Planned Parenthood funding.

A bloc of roughly 30 House conservatives insist that any government funding bill include a provision to deny all federal money for Planned Parenthood, so it’s unlikely the vote on the standalone measure will satisfy their call to defund the group.

The bill would block funding for a year unless Planned Parenthood promised to stop offering abortions except in limited circumstances.

Arizona lawmakers split cleanly down party lines Friday, with Republicans supporting both bills and Democrats opposing.

While Jordan’s faction believes the public would blame Democrats if a shutdown occurs over Planned Parenthood funding, Republican leaders showed their members polling data that indicates Republicans would be blamed, as they were during a 2013 government shutdown over Affordable Care Act funding. The videos, a product of a multi-year investigation by the Center for Medical Progress, allege Planned Parenthood and its affiliates unethically altered medical procedures to harvest organs and profited from the sale of human tissue in violation of federal law.

Nicole Clegg of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England says she is surprised and disappointed BY Poliquin’s vote, AND SAYS his rationale is Misguided.

“We continue to stand with Planned Parenthood and high-quality reproductive health care providers against this underhanded smear campaign”.

The vote is largely interpreted as a symbolic “f*** you” to women since it is not expected to pass through the Senate.

Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz of Palm Desert, Calif., an emergency room physician, responded that Franks’ bill was “unnecessary and dangerous” because it already is illegal to kill a child born alive during an abortion and the bill would interfere with the relationship between doctors and their patients.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton blasted the House vote to defund the group as “an attack on women’s health – nothing more, nothing less”. Most of the organization’s $450 million yearly in federal money – a third of its overall budget – comes from Medicaid reimbursements for treating low-income clients, and virtually none of it can be used for abortions.