Republicans Insist Planned Parenthood Committee Isn't Specifically Targeting Planned Parenthood

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This headline almost makes me laugh--but we know that as Congress starts up the committee it just gives a license to kill and blow up more PP clinics!


Republicans Insist Planned Parenthood Committee Isn't Specifically Targeting Planned Parenthood

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/planned-parenthood-committee-colorado-shooting_5665f66ce4b072e9d1c72273?utm_hp_ref=politics



At least, that's their story since the Planned Parenthood shooting.

Samantha Lachman
Staff Reporter, The Huffington Post

12/07/2015 05:56 pm ET
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

WASHINGTON -- Ever since a gunman on a shooting rampage killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic late last month, Republicans on the select panel convened to investigate Planned Parenthood have been insisting that the committee isn't targeting the nation's largest abortion provider.

In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, Democrats have called for the committee to be disbanded. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that the committee "serves only to continue the witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, its staff and its patients."

The Republican response has been to point out that the October resolution establishing the special committee referred generally to "abortion providers," but not Planned Parenthood. Then-Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) similarly said the panel would "focus on the grisly practices of big abortion providers," without mentioning Planned Parenthood explicitly, when he appointed the Republican members of the committee.

"Instead of playing politics with this tragedy, maybe those on the left … should actually take the time to read the resolution establishing the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the select committee's chair, told The Hill last month. "At no point does it mention Planned Parenthood."...........

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1. This from people who claim...

that Nazism is a left wing philosophy because "Look, it says Socialist right in their name."

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2. It seems, Republicans are obsessed with names and wording. "Say islamist terrorism! Say it!"

"Damn political correctness!"

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3. Poll: Most oppose defunding Planned Parenthood Dec 7 a new USA TODAY/Suffolk

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No surprise here: legislators wanting to defund Planned Parenthood are out-of-touch with constituents. By a lot. http://usat.ly/1NdP0Fl


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/12/07/poll-most-oppose-defunding-planned-parenthood/76913724/
Poll: Most oppose defunding Planned Parenthood

Susan Page, USA TODAY 10:05 p.m. EST December 7, 2015

Why does Congress vote for things it knows will never become law? Video provided by Newsy Newslook


WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly oppose cutting off federal funds for Planned Parenthood, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, a debate that is likely to come to a head this week between the Republican-controlled Congress and the Democratic White House.

By 58%-33%, those surveyed Wednesday through Sunday said the group's funding shouldn't be eliminated. The national poll of 1,000 likely voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Both the House and Senate have approved amendments to the budget reconciliation bill that would defund Planned Parenthood. The House is expected to consider the Senate version of the measure this week and send it to the White House, where President Obama has promised to veto it. Another amendment would repeal the Affordable Care Act.