‘It’s looking like Trump would actually sign it into law’
Feb 1, 2017 by GREG COROMBOS
The woman behind recent videos that decimate Planned Parenthood’s claim that it needs to receive taxpayer dollars to meet vital prenatal needs says congressional Republicans are poised to remove funding from the nation’s largest abortion provider and Democrats will be powerless to stop it.
On Tuesday, Live Action released a video showing activists calling Planned Parenthood clinics all around the U.S. seeking an ultrasound to ensure the health of their unborn children. Time after time, the Planned Parenthood workers explain that the clinics only use ultrasounds in preparation for abortions and not to confirm a pregnancy or evaluate the health of a baby.
The video follows on the heels of others that undermine Planned Parenthood’s contention that it needs more than half-a-billion dollars a year in taxpayer money because of the vital services it provides outside of abortions. Officially, Planned Parenthood is forbidden by law from using any public money to perform abortions, so the group insists the money goes toward prenatal care, mammograms and other women’s health needs.
But Live Action President Lila Rose told WND and Radio America the videos are pulling the mask off the Planned Parenthood facade.
Lila Rose
“We’ve known that Planned Parenthood is an abortion-first corporation, that they commit about 34 percent of all abortions in this country every year. Yet, they provide less than two percent of the breast cancer screenings, less than one percent of pap smear tests and the numbers go on,” said Rose, who founded Live Action when she was just 15 years old.
She said Planned Parenthood’s entire argument for receiving federal dollars is now gutted by its own employees.
“They use [ultrasounds and prenatal care] as a justification for their over half-a-billion dollars a year in taxpayer funds, which led us to do this investigation, to really use Planned Parenthood’s own language, their own staff explaining and admitting on tape that they don’t actually provide prenatal care and they don’t actually provide ultrasounds, even though they advertise those things,” Rose explained.
Rose, who was in Washington Thursday building support for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, says the GOP is getting ready to yank taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood.
“There’s a lot of willpower right now on the hill,” she said. “There’s a lot of clarity of focus that we need to get this done. The American people want it. Many of the folks who got into office in the Senate and the House – the most pro-life House ever – campaigned on defunding the abortion industry. So a lot of folks are behind it, a lot of energy and momentum.”
It won’t come without a loud fight.
“This is the holy grail for the abortion lobby and for the folks in Congress they have bought with lobbying dollars,” she said.
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Lila Rose:
But Rose said the Republicans are ready to defund Planned Parenthood as part of the Obamacare repeal effort. And she said it will happen in a way that Democrats cannot stop.
“It looks like the Planned Parenthood defunding and then the redirecting of that money to federally qualified health centers will be included in the reconciliation bill,” she said. “That’s what happened last year, so this means that it will pass the Senate filibuster because the pro-abortion groups in the Senate right now would filibuster a law that they would try to get through the traditional way.”
Reconciliation is a budgetary tactic that removes the 60-vote threshold to get to a final vote. A simple majority would pass the repeal and the attached defunding language.
As Rose mentioned, the Republicans did that a year ago. But now there is an ally at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
“So it’s looking really hopeful,” she said. “We just have to get that same bill now to President Trump because it’s looking like he would actually sign it into law.”
Democrats defend the Planned Parenthood funding by saying millions of low-income women rely on those clinics for non-abortion related care. Rose said that money would still be available for women’s health care.
“If taxpayers are going to be funding anything, the money should be redirected to more worthy health-care providers that provide more comprehensive care than Planned Parenthood,” Rose said. “There are 13,000 federally qualified health centers who provide better care and don’t focus on abortion. They should get that money, not Planned Parenthood.”
Live Action is also launching a petition to urge Congress to follow through on the defunding promise. More than half-a-million signatures have been gathered so far.
Rose is also optimistic about Trump’s nomination of federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch. She said Gorsuch’s commitment to the original intent of the American founders gives her confidence Gorsuch will protect the right to life. While Gorsuch has not issued any abortion-related rulings, Rose said his record is pretty clear.
“He’s someone who has advocated against euthanasia, saying any intentional taking of human life by a private party is wrong,” Rose said. “So I think it’s really hopeful, and I think he deserves all the support we can give him..
“I really hope there’s not a fight in the Senate and that he’s able to be properly confirmed and we have someone who’s really going to defend the right to life and the Constitution on the Supreme Court, in place of (the late Justice Antonin) Scalia, who was dearly loved.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/lila-rose-gop-preparing-to-defund-democrats-holy-grail/
PRO-LIFERS TARGET SENATORS UP FOR 2018 RE-ELECTION
‘Political consequences for pro-abortion Democrats who ignore will of the people’
Feb 1, 2017 by BOB UNRUH
Democrats are in disarray, with no party leadership, a failed presidential candidate and minority status in both chambers of Congress as well as 32 state legislatures.
Some of their icons are in their mid-70s.
They’ve been trying to blockade President Trump’s agenda by simply refusing to show up for Senate hearings on his Cabinet nominees, a move thwarted by Republicans who changed the rules requiring at least one Democrat to be present for a vote.
And they’ve threatened to resist Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s nominee for the vacant seat in the U.S. Supreme Court, despite his impeccable resume.
Now they may have yet another headache: A campaign to confirm Gorsuch that targets nine Democratic Party senators up for re-election in 2018 in states that Trump won.
Senators who display fanaticism in their opposition to Trump could find themselves turned out by voters who backed Trump and his “Make American Great Again” agenda.
The campaign, Prolifecourt.com, is spearheaded by the Susan B. Anthony List.
The organizations participating are Able Americans, American Life League, Americans United for Life, American Values, Bound4Life, C-Fam, Children First Foundation, Citizens for a Pro-life Society, Concerned Women for America, Home School Legal Defense Association, Illinois Right to Life, Indiana Family Institute, Iowa Right to Life, LifeNews and Life Issues.
Some of the organizations have a list of supporters numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
The effort will include email and phone call campaigns, in-state demonstrations targeting the nine senators and a digital advertising campaign, none of which the Democratic incumbents would find attractive as they prepare their re-election campaigns.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List and lead organizer of the campaign, said that after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, “the enormous responsibility of filling the void left on our nation’s highest court loomed large in voters’ minds, with 21 percent calling the Supreme Court vacancy the most important issue.”
“These voters overwhelmingly placed their trust in Donald Trump, who promised to nominate only pro-life Supreme Court justices,” she said. “He kept his promise.”
She said Gorsuch, who serves on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, is “an exceptionally qualified jurist with a strong record of protecting life and religious freedom.”
“Our coalition took immediate action to mobilize the pro-life grassroots nationwide and in key Senate battleground states to urge the Senate to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,” she said.
“There will be political consequences for pro-abortion Senate Democrats who ignore the will of the American people and obstruct this nominee,” said Dannenfelser.
The campaign noted Gorsuch already has taken positions many Americans appreciate, such as voting against Obamacare’s mandate that employers provide abortion pills and against the funding of Planned Parenthood abortionists.
The Hil has identified the nine Democratic senators who likely will be trying to walk the knife-edge of following their party’s dictates while not enraging voters at home.
In the 2018 election, Republicans will be defending just eight seats, while the Democrats have 23 on the line.
The Democratic senators likely seeking re-election in states won by Trump are:
Bill Nelson in Florida, where Trump won by a narrow margin.
Joe Donnelly in Indiana, where Trump won by 19 points.
Claire McCaskill in Missouri, where Trump won by 19.
Jon Tester in Montana, where Trump by 21.
Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota, where Trump won by 36.
Sherrod Brown in Ohio where Trump won by 8.
Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, where Trump won by a narrow margin.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia, where Trump won by 42.
Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, where Trump won by 1.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/pro-lifers-target-senators-up-for-2018-re-election/
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