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GOP Prepares to Defund Dems’ ‘Holy Grail’

February 2, 2017 by GregC

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The woman behind recent videos that decimate Planned Parenthood’s claim that it needs to receive taxpayer dollars to meet vital pre-natal 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 over 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 towards pre-natal care, mammograms and other women’s health needs.

But Live Action President Lila Rose says the videos are pulling the mask off the Planned Parenthood facade.

“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 says Planned Parenthood entire argument for receiving federal dollars is now gutted by its own employees.

“They use [ultrasounds and pre-natal care] as a justification for their over half a billion dollars a year in tax payer 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 pre-natal care and they don’t actually provide ultrasounds even though they advertise those things,” said Rose.

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.  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,” said Rose.

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,” said Rose.

But Rose says the Republicans are ready to defund Planned Parenthood as part of the Obamacare repeal effort.  And she says 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.  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,” said Rose.

Reconciliation is a budgetary tactic that removes the 60-vote threshhold 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 Ave.

“So it’s looking really hopeful.  We just have to get that same bill now to President Trump because it’s looking like he would actually sign it into law,” said Rose.

Democrats defend the Planned Parenthood funding by saying millions of low-income women rely on those clinics for non-abortion related care.  Rose says 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.  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,” said Rose.

Live Action is also launching a petition to urge Congress to follow through on the defunding promise.  Over 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 says Gorsuch’s commitment to the original intent of the American founders gives her confidence Gorsuch would protect the right to life.  While Gorsuch has not issued any abortion-related rulings, Rose says 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.  So I think it’s really hopeful and I think he deserves all the support we can give him,” said Rose.

“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,” said Rose.

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Three Martini Lunch 1/27/17

January 27, 2017 by GregC

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and David French of National Review cheer the many thousands of Americans marching for life and against abortion Friday in Washington.  They also shake their heads at President Trump’s suggestion that a 20 percent border tax on Mexican imports might be a good way to pay for a border wall.  And they discuss all the humiliating concessions and retractions Atlantic magazine has to make following its story suggesting ultrasound is used to deceive women into believing their unborn babies are people with heartbeats who can feel pain.

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‘It’s A Very Encouraging Time’ for Pro-Life Activists

January 26, 2017 by GregC

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As pro-life activists take part in the annual March for Life in Washington, they are more optimistic than any time in recent memory as a Republican Congress and a pro-life president get to work and more and more younger Americans join the cause thanks to modern science.

Leaders in the movement, like Susan B. Anthony List Vice President for Government Affairs Marilyn Musgrave, expect President Trump to make good on all his pro-life campaign promises.

“He made a pledge to work to defund Planned Parenthood, to support the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, to make the Hyde Amendment permanent, to nominate pro-life justices to the Supreme Court.  I might add that that’s the big one.  That is the big one,” stressed Musgrave.

There’s already been action on two of those promises.  On Monday, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which forbids U.S. tax dollars from going to any organization performing or advocating for abortion in foreign countries.  In addition, the House of Representatives passed legislation to make the Hyde Amendment permanent.  The Hyde Amendment prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions in the U.S.

Musgrave applauds Trump and the House.  She notes that every Republican who voted was in favor of the bill, along with three Democrats.

“It is very good times for us because we have hope that we can actually make gains for life,” said Musgrave.

She also says there is no reason Republicans can’t defund Planned Parenthood.

“I believe defunding Planned Parenthood, redirecting those dollars to other health care providers that don’t do abortion, I think that’s the one that’s most quickly attainable by the House and Senate through the reconciliation process,” said Musgrave.

Reconciliation is a budgeting process that skirts the possibility of a filibuster, meaning a simple majority in the Senate could defund Planned Parenthood.

Musgrave says accomplishing the Trump promises would save countless lives.

“The Hyde Amendment has saved over two million lives since 1976.  It’s my prayer that at this time in history, we will look back on our efforts, our marching, our support for women and their babies, the acts of this Congress and this president, we will look back and know that many, many lives have been saved,” said Musgrave.

In addition to favorable political winds at the moment, Musgrave says the future of the pro-life movement is bright because of the thousands of young people who are actively part of the effoet to protect the unborn.

“The March for Life, with now the faces of many young people, is an incredible encouragement to me,” said Musgrave.  “We are seeing the new face of the pro-life movement and that is incredibly encouraging as we see millennials speaking up for life.”

She says one reason for the youth infusion is that science keeps showing the humanity of the unborn.

“I can remember the day when they said it was just a blob of tissue.  That’s what they would tell a pregnant woman.  Now we know that those precious little babies are operated on in utero.  We know that they can feel pain after the fifth month of pregnancy,” said Musgrave.

“We know these things.  It’s not disputable anymore.  So the preciousness of that unborn child, the humanness is ever more an more evident, especially to the millennials that are marching,” said Musgrave.

Musgrave says the real scientific game-changer is the sonogram or ultrasound.  And while some recently claimed ultrasounds give women false evidence of their baby’s humanity, Musgrave says those images are very powerful to mothers dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.

“When women see the image, they know that that is a child.  That is their baby.  So there is a reason that the pro-choice crowd doesn’t want women to see the ultrasound.  The humanness of that child is very evident right there for the mother to see,” said Musgrave.

She says many ministries are centered around giving women the chance to see their babies.

“It’s just precious to me when you see local communities, pro-life people supporting mobile ultrasound units.  And I love it when a pastor gets up in a church and saying, ‘Because of your donations for this mobile ultrasound, you have saved many lives,” said Musgrave.

Musgrave says the ultrasound had a profound impact in her family.

“I remember the day I saw the picture of my grandson, Isaac.  It was an ultrasound picture.  I knew even then that he was going to look just like his daddy.  And by the way, he does.  That ultrasound speaks volumes.  That’s the image that we see, that people are sharing with their family and friends.  Science is on our side,” said Musgrave.

The March for Life will be the second for Musgrave in less than a week.  She scoped out the Women’s March on January 21.  In addition to missing any consistent message among the demonstrators, Musgrave was especially bothered by the number of men carrying signs in support of Planned Parenthood.

“Does that in any way relieve you of your responsibility for your sexual actions?  If children are produced by that, do you just want them aborted?  Do you not want them supported and taken care of?  It was an interesting emotional time for me to be among those marches,” said Musgrave.

However, Musgrave firmly believes the pro-life side is advancing and that the combination of science, young activists and allies in Congress and the White House means the future is very bright.

“Now we have the opportunity to do things in the pro-life movement that I’ve not seen in my lifetime.  It’s a very encouraging time,” said Musgrave.

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