Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
wants you to think he opposes the effort to defund Planned Parenthood in the
continuing resolution (CR) because it could cause a government
shutdown.
He also wants you to think it's because he doesn't have 60
votes in the Senate when in fact it only takes 41 votes to filibuster funding
for the organization.
But
the real reason he won't fight is that he doesn't really care about stopping
funding for Planned Parenthood, and he never has.
Here
are the facts that he doesn't want you to know:
(1) In 1992,
McConnell voted to allow taxpayer-funded research using body parts from aborted
babies.
Roll Call Vote #263, 10/2/92
This policy, which was
vetoed by President George H. W. Bush but later signed into law by President
Bill Clinton, had the effect of making abortion even more profitable for Planned
Parenthood.
(2) Also in 1992, McConnell voted to overturn the
so-called "Reagan Rule" that prohibited Planned Parenthood from using taxpayer
dollars for pro-abortion counseling.
Roll Call Vote #254, 10/1/92
McConnell's vote in this
case was to override President Bush's veto, but the House sustained it. Then, in
1993, President Clinton overturned the "Reagan Rule" by Executive Order on the
first day of his administration.
(3) In 1997, McConnell again
voted against a targeted ban on federal funding for research on body parts from
abortions.
Roll Call Vote #215, 9/4/97
This time, McConnell was
one of 14 liberal Republicans who voted to allow taxpayer-funded research on
body parts from abortions.
In the these three examples, McConnell crossed
the then-current Republican president and many of his Republican colleagues in
the Senate to open the door for taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and for
research on body parts from aborted babies.
(4) McConnell has voted for at least 15 bills that
provided funding for Planned Parenthood dating back to 1998.
This is important
because it shows how long Senator McConnell has tolerated this funding and
refused to do anything meaningful to stop it.
Senator McConnell says
defunding Planned Parenthood has to wait until Republicans control the White
House, but at least six of his past votes to fund it were when Republicans
controlled the House, Senate, and White House.
Here's the bottom
line:
Senator McConnell
isn't 100% pro-life. He has repeatedly voted to force American taxpayers to fund
Planned Parenthood, its pro-abortion counseling, and research on the babies it
aborts.
If you've seen the chilling undercover videos of
Planned Parenthood officials and wonder how this could happen, Senator
McConnell's support for these policies has a lot to do with it.
He wants
you to think he's surrendering because his hands are tied, but it's really
because he supports funding for the abortion industry.
Please call the Senate Republicans an urge them to oppose the CR
that funds Planned Parenthood.
Tell them to stand up to Senator
McConnell. If he wants to fund Planned Parenthood, he should be forced to do it
alone. Source:Senate Conservatives Action (SCA) is the super PAC arm of the Senate
Conservatives Fund (SCF), |
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