VP Mike Pence breaks tie on Planned Parenthood funding

It also would prohibit any government interference in a woman’s choice to have an abortion.

After Pence broke the tie, the Senate began debating the resolution.

“Senator Collins has always been a strong supporter of family planning services”.

Lawmakers are already pursuing other ways to redistribute taxpayer dollars designated for the abortion giant.

“Planned Parenthood’s political arm spent more than $38 million in this past November’s election”. As a nation, we are without excuse in subsidizing Planned Parenthood’s gruesome trafficking of baby body parts and its inhumane treatment of mothers and their unborn children. She said whether a baby is considered born alive depends on “who’s in the room.”

Overturning this rule is the appropriate step for Congress to take, to both protect life and reassert that the states have Tenth Amendment rights to allocate Title X family planning grants in such a manner that prioritizes community health clinics and true family planning over the industrial abortion industry as represented by Planned Parenthood. About 75 percent of money Planned Parenthood receives from the government is through Medicaid.

Democrats condemned the measure throughout the day, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY calling it “another example of the Republican war on women“. There are 52 Republicans in the Senate. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., still recovering from back surgery, appeared in the Senate with the aid of a walker to back Republicans on the proposal.

The resolution was en route to failing by a single vote.

USA law already prohibits federal money from being used to pay for most abortions, but the GOP health overhaul would have cut off more than $400 million in Medicaid reimbursements and other federal funding to Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services.

Under the Congressional Review Act, the measure will repeal a rule passed at the end of Obama’s second term, which bans states from blocking Title X family planning grants to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. Using their fake identities and sham company, the defendants are alleged to have recorded attendees and speakers at the conference, and then setting up subsequent meetings with abortion providers and recording those conversations without their consent.

“Allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood because politicians want to punish a health care provider only hurts women“, said Sen. After Texas cut its contribution and revamped the way it distributed the federal money, the number of patients served by the program declined to less than 167,000 in 2015 from nearly 260,000 in 2011, according to HHS. “States should be able to make their own decisions about the best eligible Title X subgrantees”, said Sen.

The gutting of the rule protecting Planned Parenthood’s funding has already passed the House, and if it clears final passage in the Senate it will head to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The Title X Family Planning Program was originally created by Richard Nixon in 1970 in order to ensure that adequate, affordable family planning services were available to all Americans.

It’s illegal to sell human tissue for a profit.

So how will this affect Planned Parenthood?

Alleging that Daleiden’s undercover videos violate California state laws against secretly recording people without their consent, the attorney general said his office would “not tolerate the criminal recordings of confidential conversations”. The complaint alleges they invaded the privacy of medical providers whose conversations were secretly recorded.