{"id":85087,"date":"2016-01-12T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=85087"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:28:49","slug":"despite-veto-congress-defunding-planned-parenthood-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/despite-veto-congress-defunding-planned-parenthood-historic\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite veto, Congress&#8217;s defunding of Planned Parenthood is historic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pro-lifers were disappointed but not surprised to learn that President Obama <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-president-obama-vetoes-legislation-defunding-planned-parenthood\/\">had vetoed<\/a> legislation defunding Planned Parenthood and repealing the Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare).\u00a0The legislation was of paramount importance to the pro-life movement, and not only because it\u00a0would have defunded the nation&#8217;s largest abortion provider. Pro-lifers have also expressed concerns with ObamaCare for its contraception\/abortifacient mandate and its funding of\u00a0elective abortions.<\/p>\n<p>That the legislation reached the President&#8217;s desk at all is historic. Votes\u00a0to defund both have occurred throughout Obama&#8217;s two terms, but now, in his last year, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the\u00a0U.S. Senate successfully passed\u00a0the legislation for the first time.\u00a0That historic move should not\u00a0be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even though it would\u00a0take two-thirds of Congress to override President Obama&#8217;s\u00a0veto, this is\u00a0a victory, because the majority of the people&#8217;s elected representatives\u00a0voted\u00a0to defund Big Abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/01\/08\/ryan-we-will-hold-a-vote-to-override-presidents-obamacare-repeal-veto-video\/\">stated<\/a> that he will hold a vote later this month in an effort to override the President&#8217;s veto, saying he intends to\u00a0&#8220;tak[e] this process all the way to the end under the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should Congress be unable to override the veto, at least now we know that Congress <em>can<\/em> defund Planned Parenthood and repeal ObamaCare, because they have already voted to do\u00a0so. It can be done again, and under a different President or a veto-proof vote by Congress, it can\u00a0become the law of the land.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-lifers can take comfort in knowing that a similar situation happened with the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, which was passed by Congress in 1995 and 1997 and was vetoed both times\u00a0by President Bill Clinton.\u00a0The legislation passed again in 2003, after Clinton left office, and\u00a0was signed into law by his successor, President\u00a0George W. 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