Although a non-government-subsidized portion of Planned Parenthood’s funding goes to abortion services, most government funding provides pap smears, STD testing, HIV testing, birth control, pelvic, and breast cancer screenings for almost three million women.
“Nearly 17 years ago to the day, I came to the Senate floor to cast a vote to override then-President Clinton’s veto of the federal partial-birth abortion ban and to speak out for the voiceless unborn children who were victims of that deplorable practice”.
According to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is a Republican presidential candidate, President Barack Obama is pretending to be a Christian, and is not treating Pope Francis’ visit with respect (video below).
There are more rumors of a conservative bid to oust Boehner, and the big debate over whether a government shutdown should be on the table in the latest spending skirmish with President Obama. I am of course talking about the videos that have recently been released showing Planned...
Other groups, such as Americans United for Life, have taken a relatively safer approach, which is to neither oppose nor support a government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding.
Tuesday’s vote came with Republicans trying to halt the $450 million in federal funding that goes yearly to Planned Parenthood, about a third of its overall budget. The House approved the legislation in May.
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.
“Pope Francis”, she says, “I want to tell you that my heart is sad and I would like to ask you to speak with the president and the Congress and legalizing my parents because every day I am scared that one day they will take them away from me”.
Certainly there is good reason for a religious leader to speak up in the USA-what with the Obama administration’s campaign to put an end to religious liberty and to destroy Christianity-but what is the red pope doing?
More people are paying attention to Planned Parenthood’s government funding following a series of undercover videos. Earnest said he had not, and that he had only seen the snippets that were broadcasted on television through news coverage.