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September 21, 2015

House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood 
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House lawmakers on Friday voted to strip federal funding from Planned
Parenthood for a year unless it stops performing abortions. The vote
follows a series of Republican-led hearings on heavily edited videos
released by an anti-choice group which show Planned Parenthood employees
discussing the sharing of fetal tissue with researchers. At one hearing,
Arizona Republican Congressmember Trent Franks acknowledged Republicans
on the House Judiciary Committee had neither seen or requested the full,
unedited videos. On Friday, Florida Democratic Congressmember Lois
Frankel denounced the bill defunding Planned Parenthood.

Rep. Lois Frankel: "I want to say this as respectfully as possible, but
this bill is dumb, it's foolish, and it's mean-spirited, with only one
purpose, and that is to punish one of our country's premier health
organizations because it provides women access to an array of services
that we need to lead healthy lives."

 

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