GOP lawmakers' reality: They won't cut Planned Parenthood

[DonViejo]

That's infuriated anti-abortion groups, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures and the courts.

By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN 12/02/2018 06:53 AM EST

Congressional Republicans are giving up on years of promises to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood as Democrats prepare to take control of the House, a major setback for the conservative movement after controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House for the past two years.

The futility of the congressional efforts was clear as the lame-duck session of Congress convened this week and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) briefly tried — and failed — to rally support for one last bid to push through Planned Parenthood cuts, Obamacare repeal and other conservative priorities. But most Republicans, already rattled by the possibility of a shutdown next week triggered by President Donald Trump’s border wall demands, dismissed his bid.

That's infuriated anti-abortion groups, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures and the courts.

“They had two years to defund Planned Parenthood, and they failed,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of the anti-abortion group Students for Life of America. “It’s a huge frustration. We worked so hard to elect supposedly these pro-life Republican officials, and we expected results.”

House Republicans who’ve repeatedly voted to defund Planned Parenthood — a priority since Vice President Mike Pence served in the chamber — say there is no point using their remaining days in power passing a bill that’s sure to die in the upper chamber. Next year, the dynamic will be reversed, with conservative bills that might get traction in the Senate sure to collapse in the Democratic-led House.

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[irisblue]

1. Good

Here in Ohio, the radical hard right authoritarians have control of both sides of the state house & executive branches.

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2. "They had two years . . . and they failed"

You left off the word "again," Kristan Hawkins. Seems like that just keeps happening, doesn't it? And then the Republicans sucker you into donating and volunteering for their campaigns again, and you line up like the eager little marks that you are. Guess what? Republicans are NEVER going to come through for you, because what you want isn't constitutional.

But yeah, beginning next year, the Senate will pass all kinds of bills that they wouldn't vote on during the last two years. And you still won't get what you want, and you won't have a clue why.