{"id":73543,"date":"2015-09-10T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=73543"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:55:14","slug":"boehner-attempts-defuse-shutdown-talk-planned-parenthood-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/boehner-attempts-defuse-shutdown-talk-planned-parenthood-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner attempts to defuse shutdown talk over Planned Parenthood dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner privately\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/09\/boehner-shutdown-will-hurt-pro-life-movement-213457\">made the case<\/a>\u00a0to fellow Republicans against risking a government shutdown to defund Planned Parenthood, and is slated to have fellow House GOP leaders, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and Conference Chair\u00a0Cathy McMorris Rogers, to meet with other congressmen to discuss alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Boehner reportedly told the weekly House Republican Caucus that a government shutdown would neither prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer dollars nor end its harvesting and sale of organs from aborted babies, though he professed to want to ultimately defund the abortion giant, end its organ trafficking, and according to Politico &#8220;called for allowing prosecution of doctors who kill babies who survive an abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->However, killing survivors of attempted abortions is already illegal under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/PLAW-107publ207\/pdf\/PLAW-107publ207.pdf\">2002 Born-Alive Infants Protection Act<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativereview.com\/Commentary\/2015\/08\/yes-congress-can-defund-planned-parenthood\">according to<\/a> a February 2014 report from the Congressional Research Service, Medicaid (from which Planned Parenthood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2015\/08\/05\/429641062\/fact-check-how-does-planned-parenthood-spend-that-government-money\">says<\/a> 75% of its federal funding comes) &#8220;is funded in the annual appropriations acts&#8221; and therefore subject to Congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>How to attempt defunding Planned Parenthood has been a source of intense debate within the Republican Party, with Speaker Boehner a <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-outrage-end-boehners-speakership\/\">persistent foe<\/a> of risking a government shutdown, while at least eighteen House Republicans have <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/252807-conservatives-prepare-to-make-stand-on-planned-parenthood\">vowed<\/a> not to vote for any government funding bill that includes money for the abortion giant. Presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Bobby Jindal <a href=\"\/news\/gop-presidential-candidates-time-defund-planned-parenthood\/\">have also aligned themselves<\/a> with the pro-shutdown side of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner privately\u00a0made the case\u00a0to fellow Republicans against risking a government shutdown to defund Planned Parenthood, and is slated to have fellow House GOP leaders, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and Conference Chair\u00a0Cathy McMorris Rogers, to meet with other congressmen to discuss alternatives. 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