{"id":73854,"date":"2015-09-14T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=73854"},"modified":"2015-09-14T19:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:07:26","slug":"wisconsin-gop-pledges-defund-planned-parenthood-ban-research-aborted-baby-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wisconsin-gop-pledges-defund-planned-parenthood-ban-research-aborted-baby-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin GOP pledges to defund Planned Parenthood, ban research on aborted baby parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Wisconsin Republican lawmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/sep\/13\/wisconsin-legislature-to-focus-on-elections-reform\/\">say<\/a>\u00a0they plan to make\u00a0defunding Planned Parenthood and banning research on aborted fetal tissue major parts of their legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Live Action News has previously <a href=\"\/news\/well-gop-hopefuls-handle-criticism-pro-life-credentials-last-night\/\">reported<\/a> that the state chapter of Planned Parenthood still receives\u00a0\u00a0between $15 and $16 million in tax dollars annually. Two new bills to be introduced in the coming months would reduce that by $7.5 million.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first would\u00a0eliminate approximately $3 million in federal grant money, and the second would deny the abortion giant an additional $4.5 million by narrowing what providers of birth control drugs can bill Medicaid for to actual acquisition costs and a dispensing fee.<\/p>\n<p>The third bill would prohibit any research on fetal organs acquired from any baby aborted after January 1, 2015. Though a major\u00a0pro-life priority since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerformedicalprogress.org\/\">Center for Medical Progress&#8217;s undercover videos<\/a> broke earlier this summer, banning the research faces hurdles from GOP\u00a0state Senators\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsingazette.com\/wellness\/wisconsin-republicans-advance-fetal-tissue-research-ban.html\">Van Wanggaard<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/mediatrackers.org\/wisconsin\/2015\/08\/12\/gop-sen-darling-opposes-fetal-tissue-bill-ties-planned-parenthood\">Alberta Darling<\/a> (a former Planned Parenthood board member), and the pro-GOP Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the most influential business group in the state. They claim\u00a0the legislation would impede valuable medical research.<\/p>\n<p>As also <a href=\"\/news\/university-wisconsin-madison-purchased-baby-body-parts-for-research\/\">covered<\/a> by Live Action, the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducts research on tissue from aborted babies&#8217; organs. Last month, nearly 700 faculty members <a href=\"\/news\/university-wisconsin-faculty-object-possible-law-banning-fetal-body-parts-research\/\">signed<\/a> an open letter calling on their reliance on abortion for research material\u00a0to remain legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Republican lawmakers say\u00a0they plan to make\u00a0defunding Planned Parenthood and banning research on aborted fetal tissue major parts of their legislative agenda. Live Action News has previously reported that the state chapter of Planned Parenthood still receives\u00a0\u00a0between $15 and $16 million in tax dollars annually. Two new bills to be introduced in the coming months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4241,4212,5158,4176,4246,131,14,615,4658,5159,687],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wisconsin GOP pledges to defund Planned Parenthood, ban research on aborted baby parts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wisconsin GOP lawmakers say they plan to make defunding Planned Parenthood and banning research on aborted fetal tissue major parts of their agenda.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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