Republican Senators Introduce Amendment To Stop GOP From Defunding Planned Parenthood

[babylonsister]

Say what??

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/susan-collins-introduces-amendment-to-stop-gop-from-gutting-planned-parenthood-funding

Republican Senators Introduce Amendment To Stop GOP From Defunding Planned Parenthood

By Lauren Fox
Published December 3, 2015, 3:23 PM EST


Three Republican senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski(R-AK) weren't about to let their party gut Planned Parenthood without a fight.

Collins led the charge on Senate floor Thursday announcing that defunding Planned Parenthood could lead to "the closure of several hundred clinics across the country, depriving millions of women of the health care provider of their choice."

Collins amendment was to strike language in the Senate's budget reconciliation bill, which redirected money from Planned Parenthoods to other community health clinics. Republican leaders included the defund language as a statement against Planned Parenthood, which sting videos alleged was selling fetal tissue.

Planned Parenthood has denied those accusations.

The reconciliation package, which included language to gut Obamacare is expected to be vetoed by the president.

But, moderate Republicans especially those running for re-election in swing states like Kirk had reason to be worried that the mere optics of voting to defund Planned Parenthood sent the wrong message back home. After all, Planned Parenthood does more than provide abortions. The clinics offer women health screenings and access to birth control.

[steve2470]

1. stopped clock lawdamercy! nt

[malaise]

2. True but we welcome the stop

from time to time - of course it's self-serving but that's better than their colleagues

[steve2470]

3. agreed! nt

[Mnemosyne]

4. Wtf? Denied those accusations?! Ah, weren't those videos proven BS already? nt

[Kber]

8. Yes!

This part of article is "technically true" and yet totally misleading.

[Mnemosyne]

12. See it too often in articles these days.

All part of the propaganda being catapulted.

[grntuscarora]

5. I always kind of liked Susan Collins.

Although I can't recall exactly why. Good on her for this! It takes guts to go against the scary nutjobs that make up her party.

[MH1]

9. She's one of the last remaining sorta moderate republicans.

She's still a republican and as such, mostly wrong on mostly everything, but she seems to have a glimmer of a soul left, unlike most of the cretins.

[Rex]

6. The only people that can stop the Teabagging Terrorists are their fellow republicans.

[rockfordfile]

7. There are no moderate republicans

For some reason the religious right hate women.

[atreides1]

11. Irony

The religious right consists of a women that hate their own gender, which means they hate themselves!

Yet, they are at the front of the pack when it comes to taking away the rights that so many women have fought, and some died, for!!!

[Photographer]

10. Whaaaa?????

Good to hear but did I just wake up in bizarro world?