The GOP is going all in to turn Planned Parenthood into the next ACORN. In response to completely debunked and discredited videos that conservatives collectively pretend show Planned Parenthood officials selling fetal tissue from abortions, Senate Republicans introduced legislation to stop all government funding to the organization.
Planned Parenthood receives up to $500 million annually in Medicaid reimbursements and $60 million in federal funds for family-planning services, but by law none of that money can fund abortions. Nevertheless, Republican senator Joni Ernst declared on Monday, “The American taxpayer should not be asked to fund an organization like Planned Parenthood that has shown a sheer disdain for human dignity and complete disregard for women and their babies.“
The Republicans are now determined to leverage their fake outrage over Planned Parenthood by attaching a defunding bill it to a the omnibus funding bill that must pass by October 1 to avoid a government shutdown. House Republicans have made their position clear “Please know that we cannot and will not support any funding resolution — an appropriations bill, an omnibus package, a continuing resolution or otherwise — that contains any funding for Planned Parenthood, including mandatory funding streams.”
This shutdown fight should be welcomed by Democrats. It puts in high relief the GOP’s reckless disregard for:
1) The truth. That video has been proven to be a load of shit.
2) Women’s health care. Planned Parenthood has everything to do with providing basic reproductive healthcare and nothing to do with selling fetal tissue, and
3) Basic governance. The GOP really wants to create another shutdown clusterfuck and risk our country’s economy and credit worthiness because, they SIMPLY DON’T GIVE A FUCK. It is all politics all the time for these idiots.