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On Friday, we finally got a House vote<\/a> on defunding Planned Parenthood. 241 representatives voted to take away their tax dollars, while 187 voted not to. Three Republicans and three Democrats each sided with the opposite party. And Rep. Steve King (R-IA) voted present, presumably in protest of the ways he thought the bill should have been stronger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t become law anytime soon, with the Senate vote failing to reach cloture<\/a>, President Barack Obama certain to veto, and too few votes to override, meaning the vote won\u2019t placate calls to defund Planned Parenthood via Congress\u2019s power of the purse. But while pro-lifers have discussed that dispute at length<\/a>, we haven\u2019t adequately covered how much more our elected statesmen could be doing with other measures.<\/p>\n

Second to taking effect, the most valuable function of voting on legislation is making\u00a0a public statement. Between the House and Senate votes, more than\u00a0two hundred legislators have put themselves on the record as being officially comfortable with forcing the American people to financially support an organization that not only murders hundreds of children daily, but is now known to practice such violence for reasons far less noble<\/a> than women\u2019s health. This organization, Planned Parenthood, also commits\u00a0numerous crimes<\/a> and additional human-rights atrocities<\/a> in the process\u2014something pro-life groups and challengers will be eager to remind their constituents when they\u2019re up for reelection.<\/p>\n

More importantly,\u00a0it\u00a0generates media coverage for the issue. It\u2019s one thing for the press to ignore the videos themselves<\/a>, but quite another to pretend major national votes didn\u2019t happen, and it\u2019s all but impossible to avoid at least a passing mention of what instigated it. Pro-life congressmen have seized upon the attention with impassioned speeches<\/a> marshalling America\u2019s conscience to stand up to this. Those are welcome, and attract some additional public attention, but unfortunately are less likely to spread very far beyond pro-life and political media whose readers\u2019 minds are largely made up.<\/p>\n

The fact remains that despite how relentlessly pro-life and conservative websites, publications, Fox News, The Blaze, and activist groups\u2019 mailing lists have publicized the story since July, 53% of the public remains completely unaware of the videos<\/a>, with a mere 27% saying they know \u201ca lot\u201d about the horrors they reveal. Such is the inherent limitation of any activist platform\u2014the core audience is the core audience because they\u2019ve proactively sought it out, and only reaches a limited amount of the unaffiliated.<\/p>\n

\"WatchingThe missing ingredient is an effort to reach beyond the audience who is already convinced abortion is evil and that Planned Parenthood needs to go. The GOP has the resources to do so, so now\u2019s the time for them to step up and put their money where their mouth is. The Republican National Committee has paid good money for ad campaigns bashing Hillary Clinton<\/a>, tying into Black History Month<\/a>, and painfully pandering to the hipster vote<\/a>, so what excuse could there possibly be for not investing at least as much in putting the Center for Medical Progress videos on TV during every football game or American Idol episode? If ending abortion is supposedly one of the party\u2019s core values, how could they justify not giving it the star treatment?<\/p>\n

The common refrain for pro-lifers impatient with Republican pro-life inaction is that they put up pro-life bills for \u201cshow votes\u201d that don\u2019t meaningfully bring us closer to results. But whether a show vote is a good or a bad thing depends on the intended audience: showing the rest of the country what it needs to do, or just showing the pro-life base that our leaders look busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, we finally got a House vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. 241 representatives voted to take away their tax dollars, while 187 voted not to. Three Republicans and three Democrats each sided with the opposite party. And Rep. Steve King (R-IA) voted present, presumably in protest of the ways he thought the bill should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":71526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[4241,19,5239,403,5233,4176,131,3151,1150,14,545,615,5240],"yoast_head":"\nAfter show vote, GOP must show the public why Planned Parenthood deserves defunding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The RNC has paid for all sorts of ad campaigns. 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