The reconciliation procedure is a special legislative maneuver that bypasses the ability of Senators to filibuster a bill.
Four years after GOP Senate candidates stumbled over reproductive rights, the thorny issue is once again front and center as Congress kicks off 2016 with a vote to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood in retaliation for its abortion practices.
“Mr. President, show the same outrage and compassion for the kids who are killed and harvested for body parts at Planned Parenthood, and parted out and sold across the country like used cars”.
On Friday, President Obama predictably vetoed the bill.
Lawrence has tackled everything from the gender pay gap to playing inspiring characters on screen, and now she’s speaking out about Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood also maintained that the extra dosage is clinically unnecessary and thus imposes an undue financial burden. Planned Parenthood has performed almost one million abortions over the last three years.
It repeals the individual and employer healthcare mandates, it fully and completely defunds Planned Parenthood, it stops the practice of taxing families for purchasing the plans that meet its best needs (known as the Cadillac tax), and finally, ends the practice of allowing unelected non-physicians determine which services seniors will receive on Medicare.
Clinton has received a significant amount of campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, and was a recipient of the group’s Margaret Sanger Award.
“As a lesbian, I am extremely disappointed that you would support someone who was vocally against my right to marry until mid-2013, considering that Bernie Sanders has publicly supported my rights as a lesbian since 1972”, Muscato wrote in an email to Planned Parenthood, which she posted on Reddit.
In a statement yesterday, the abortion giant announced that it is kicking off the presidential primary by backing the Democratic hopeful, noting that Clinton will stand by Planned Parenthood- no matter what. The Institute cited stepped up attacks on Planned Parenthood and other providers of reproductive health services during 2015 as factors in the decline.
This is not pro-women.
This is not the first women’s rights group to endorse Clinton. And that’s not even taking into account the murder of almost 323,999 lives – pitting mothers against their own babies. Planned Parenthood appealed to the 10th Circuit and won an emergency request to put Waddoups’ decision on hold.
A bill defunding the organization was sent to President Barack Obama’s desk on Wednesday, which Obama has vowed to veto. But we must continue to fight for every single vulnerable human life in our communities, in courts, and on Capitol Hill until they are protected from those who prey upon them.