House OKs GOP bill blocking Planned Parenthood payments

[Miles Archer]

Source: Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided House voted Friday to block Planned Parenthood's federal funds for a year, as Republican leaders tried to keep GOP outrage over abortion from spiraling into an impasse with President Barack Obama that could shut down the government.

The House voted 241-187 for the legislation, with just three Republicans and two Democrats defecting from their party lines. The measure stands little chance of enactment, since Senate Democrats have enough votes to block it and for good measure the White House has promised a veto.

Yet Republicans are forging ahead, sparked by secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they take tissue from aborted fetuses for medical research.

Those videos have helped mushroom the longtime political fight over abortion into a prominent issue for next year's elections. They've also refueled Congress' always-emotional clashes on the subject, with Friday's debate featuring a poster-sized photo of a scarred, aborted fetus and accusations from each side that the other was simply trying to drum up campaign donations.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/house-bills-hit-planned-parenthood-abortion-doctors-071656307--politics.html

[Vinca]

1. If your Congressperson is a Republican, send him or her a note of thanks for

voting for a bill that will create more unwanted pregnancies and result in more abortions. You might also ask how they plan to fund the orphanages.

[eggplant]

2. Who were the two Democrats? n/t

[niyad]

5. lipinski (IL) and collin peterson (MN)

[They_Live]

3. No federal funding is used for abortion services anyway

right? So this is just an asshole symbolic gesture. No cancer screenings for you, poor peoples.
What a bunch of jerks. None of their posturing or defunding is going to stop abortion anyway, it will only make it more dangerous.

[Skittles]

4. gawd they soooooo fucking stupid - they have NO CLUE what the outcome of their actions would be

they're an embarrassment

[niyad]

6. sure they do, and they just don't care