{"id":187267,"date":"2018-08-21T05:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187267"},"modified":"2018-08-24T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T05:00:43","slug":"rand-paul-amendment-defund-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rand-paul-amendment-defund-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes down Rand Paul’s amendment to defund abortion providers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contrary to popular belief, taxpayer dollars do<\/em> fund abortion<\/a> at various abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. And on August 16, 2018, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced an amendment to remedy that. In a press release<\/a>, Paul’s office noted that the amendment was proposed to “H.R. 6157, the Senate appropriations package for Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.” It reportedly “contains the same language preventing such spending as the FY 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education funding bill that passed the U.S. House Appropriations Committee in July.” With this amendment, providers that do not commit abortions would still be eligible “to receive federal funding for women\u2019s health services.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Senate voted it down on August 23rd, with 45 voting in favor of the amendment, and 48 opposed — including, unsurprisingly, GOP Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who are known to vote solidly pro-abortion. According to Townhall.com<\/a>, Senator Paul gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor regarding taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood<\/a>, the nation’s largest abortion<\/a> business:<\/p>\n

“Planned Parenthood ends the lives of 320,000 babies each year, that\u2019s about 900 babies every day,\u201d Paul emphasized in his speech on the Senate floor. \u201cPlanned Parenthood received over 400 million dollars of taxpayer money, the government with a wink and a nod tells us that Planned Parenthood doesn\u2019t spend the money on abortions but everybody knows that the taxpayers are really cross-subsidizing Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion mills.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Sen. Paul is exactly right. Here’s an explanation about how American taxpayer dollars fund abortion:<\/p>\n