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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDems manage to sneak Planned Parenthood vote past distracted GOP:
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee temporarily overpowered their GOP colleagues to block testimony from an anti-Planned Parenthood witness during a hearing Thursday.Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), protested a graphic video about abortion procedures that was shown to the committee by Dr. Anthony Levatino, who has performed abortions.
This witness has played a tape that he has now admitted under oath was not prepared in connection with Planned Parenthood at all and I ask that it be stricken from the record of this hearing, he said, sparring with Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who controlled the hearing at the time.
The video, which was about five minutes long, included a recording of a graphic phone conversation between a clinician and a young woman who sought an abortion at 27 weeks of pregnancy. The clinician said the abortion, at that term in pregnancy, would cost about $8,000 and increase by $1,000 each week.
But when questioned, Levatino acknowledged that the clinic in question was not Planned Parenthood.
In a rare move, Cicilline called a vote to strike the video from the hearings record. And with more Democrats in the hearing room than Republicans at the time, it passed.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/256436-in-unusual-move-democrats-temporarily-block-anti-planned-parenthood
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Dems manage to sneak Planned Parenthood vote past distracted GOP: (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2015
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MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2. Good job, Dems!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)3. Awesome
Always a treat when the minority can do this kind of thing for all the right reasons.