{"id":239151,"date":"2021-02-01T18:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T00:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=239151"},"modified":"2021-02-08T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:29:08","slug":"rand-paul-pro-life-bills-defund-protect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rand-paul-pro-life-bills-defund-protect\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul introduces pro-life bills to defund Planned Parenthood and protect the preborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) re-introduced two pro-life bills over the weekend of January 30, 2021, releasing a statement the same day as the March for Life.\u00a0In a video message to people participating in the march \u2014 the vast majority of whom did so virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul showed his solidarity in the fight for life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood will tell you differently, but every single life matters, including the unborn,&#8221; Paul said, adding that we cannot expect to honor our other rights if we do not first protect the right to life. &#8220;The proper role of government is to ensure that individual rights are protected, the most basic of which is the right to life,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced the two pro-life bills in the video, one of which would defund Planned Parenthood, and the other which would define that human life begins at conception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amazing-photos-of-preborn-babies-in-the-womb-show-that-life-begins-at-fertilization\/\">Amazing photos of preborn babies in the womb show that life begins at fertilization<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVS9xnelQOk\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page-attachments\/492476526-Defund-Planned-Parenthood-Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Defund Planned Parenthood Act<\/a>\u00a0would ban government dollars from being directed to abortion organizations, of which Planned Parenthood is the largest. Live Action has long called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, which \u2014 despite its claims \u2014 is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-actually-not-premier-health-care-provider-american-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not a legitimate health care provider<\/a>\u00a0and has a business model focused on profiting from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-video-debunks-planned-parenthoods-3-percent-abortion-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>. The corporation&#8217;s most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/2e\/da\/2eda3f50-82aa-4ddb-acce-c2854c4ea80b\/2018-2019_annual_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual report<\/a> showed that it killed a record 345,672 preborn human beings in 2019, even as the number of women who visit Planned Parenthood facilities <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/health-abortion-profits-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined<\/a>. Planned Parenthood routinely fails to report crimes as required such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Planned%20Parenthood%20Sexual%20Abuse%20Report%202018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rape and sexual abuse of minors<\/a>. Additionally, Planned Parenthood was caught on undercover recordings by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TheCenterforMedicalProgress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Medical Progress<\/a>\u00a0haggling over prices for aborted human body parts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cpdY97GOK2I\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s second bill, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page-attachments\/492476525-Life-at-Conception-Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life at Conception Act<\/a>, ensures that 14th Amendment protections extend to preborn children, who are living human beings. Science has made it clear that, from the moment of fertilization, the preborn child is an entirely distinct human being. The heart begins to beat between 16 and 22 days after fertilization, with brain waves able to be measured at just six weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientific fact<\/a> has made it clear: preborn children are not meaningless clumps of cells, but living, growing human beings who deserve to be protected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) re-introduced two pro-life bills over the weekend of January 30, 2021, releasing a statement the same day as the March for Life.\u00a0In a video message to people participating in the march \u2014 the vast majority of whom did so virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul showed his solidarity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":239152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sen. 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