And Representative Roger Williams of Texas said, “There are “people like me who can’t find a way to vote for anything that funds Planned Parenthood””.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a bill that would freeze federal funding for Planned Parenthood for one year. The group behind them says they show Planned Parenthood breaking laws regulating fetal tissue donation for the goal of medical research – specifically, profiting off the tissue and altering procedures to obtain intact parts – which Planned Parenthood denies.

“We need more access to quality health care, not less”, said Esty, who volunteered at Planned Parenthood as a college freshman. “The next step is to add this measure to the short-term budget resolution that forces the Senate to vote again on redirecting tax dollars away from Planned Parenthood“.

“There were over four million visits to Planned Parenthood clinics previous year , and over 90 percent of this was basic women’s health care and not abortions”, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) said on the floor. Longstanding Federal policy already prohibits the use of Federal funds for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest or when the life of a woman would be endangered. There should absolutely be an investigation.

Jezebel reported that the two Democrats who voted in favor of freezing Planned Parenthood’s federal funds are Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois and Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota. To me, it isn’t.

The House passed legislation to defund Planned Parenthood for a year while strengthening reporting requirements regarding abortions that result in live births. Do you hope it goes into affect, or that it gets rejected?

Many Democrats in Congress and President Barack Obama have said they will fight to stop the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

It’s uncertain whether the Senate will even take up the House-passed measure, and if it does, Democrats have vowed to block consideration on final passage. “Many Alabamians have now seen or at least heard about the deplorable undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood leadership casually discussing the best techniques for preserving the organs of aborted babies so they can be resold for maximum compensation”. The measures may, however, increase the likelihood of a second government shutdown, which conservative lawmakers have threatened over the abortion issue. “It’s clear those behind these attacks have always had a clear agenda: to ban abortion, and cut millions of women and men across the country from necessary reproductive health care”.