The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have blocked federal government funding to Planned Parenthood. The amendment, proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), was defeated 45-48, needing 60 votes to pass.
The amendment was proposed for attachment to an appropriations bill funding the department of Labor and Health and Human Services. Speaking after the vote, Paul said that the result showed many Republican lawmakers prioritized increased government spending over life issues.
“While I am disappointed in the outcome of this vote, I will never apologize for standing up for life. If it took exposing the preference of so many in my own party to continue reckless spending over protecting the innocent, it was a fight worth having,” the senator said.
Paul had previously blamed GOP leadership for filling up slots for potential amendments to the appropriations bill with empty placeholders in order to keep his proposal from making it into the final version. He said that they did so out of fears that an attempt to defund the controversial abortion provider could hold up other spending increases contained in the bill.
Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both voted against the amendment and won public praise from Planned Parenthood executive vice president Dawn Laguens for “standing up and protecting access” to abortion.
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Another victory for the culture of death. Abortion funding for Planned Parenthood must be terminated once and for all to end the senseless killing of the unborn in America. Since Roe versus Wade legalized abortion in America in 1973 close to 60 MILLION unborn baby children have been killed. America turn to a God of love and mercy before it is too late or face the wrath and judgement of Almighty God. Repent and convert! End abortion now! Adoption is the loving option. Pray America Pray. Pray Pray Pray!
Feckless Congressional idiots. Do not send any money to either side in this election. In truth, few in the Republican party care at all about being pro-life. They care about being re-elected. Are there a pair of moral losers larger than Senators Collins and Murkowski?
Planned Parenthood is the organization of Satan. The fact that a Republican controlled Senate cannot pass this legislation (forget the 60 vote rule) shows how lost things are in Washington, DC. The Republicans there are little different than Uncle Ted McCarrick in their immorality and duplicity. Vote them all out.
I am sending money, as much as my wife will let me, to the Republicans as my 401k is bursting at the seams thanks to The America First Program of you-know-whom.
Mat God reward Rand Paul for standing athwart the Planned Parenthood culture of death.
One of the “Four Sins that Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance” is the spilling of innocent blood. St. Basil: “A woman who has deliberately destroyed a fetus must pay the penalty for murder”
YOUR tax dollars hard at work. Why was this ATTACHED to anything at all. The government employees (Senators) should vote on the defunding alone, then we all know where they stand on this issue.