Pro-Life

Your calls to Congress worked! Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced yesterday that the Senate will have a cloture vote Thursday on a Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government through December 11th and includes H.R. 3134, passed by the House of Representatives last Friday, stopping Planned Parenthood funding for one year and redirecting funds to Federally Qualified Health Centers. These health centers not only provide more comprehensive health services, but they also outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics across the nation 20 to 1. By redirecting federal funding away from Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, Congress is continuing to fund women’s health care through centers that give more options and more services to women.

On Tuesday, the Center for Medical Progress released its tenth video exposing Planned Parenthood’s appalling disregard for unborn babies. Planned Parenthood executives are seen mocking laws against selling aborted baby parts while acknowledging the public relations problem they would have if Americans knew what they were doing.

Over the summer, the Center for Medical Progress released eight undercover videos that reveal the true nature of Planned Parenthood and its partners. The videos show Planned Parenthood clearly trying to wring every dollar it can out of every abortion it performs, undermining its claim to be a “non-profit women’s health organization.”

On Monday, the Senate rejected a bill to defund Planned Parenthood. S. 1881 did not reach the 60-vote threshold required to advance the bill, but it did receive support from a majority of Senators. The last time this question came before the Senate, only 42 Senators voted yes, and 5 Republicans joined all Democrats in opposition. Last night, all Republicans except Mark Kirk of Illinois voted yes, and Democrats Joe Donnelly and Joe Manchin joined them.

Americans have been shocked in recent weeks by a series of videos showing executives of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, discussing the sale of body parts from aborted babies. The abortionists were caught on film as they casually described altering abortion procedures to preserve lucrative organs and then haggled over prices.