Senate Vote Defunding Planned Parenthood is Historic!

Today, the U.S. Senate has succeeded in voting to defund Planned Parenthood of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars. While the pro-abortion White House had earlier promised to issue a veto. This vote is the first time that the Senate has successfully voted to strip Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, sending it instead to more worthy health care centers that serve low-income women and their families. – liveactionnews.org

The passage of the bill to send the Planned Parenthood defunding measure to President Obama’s desk has been hailed as a major victory by pro-life groups. In a statement, Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Kellie Fiedorek said that “the Senate is right to recognize that taxpayer money should go to fund local community health centers, not to subsidize a scandal-ridden, billion-dollar abortion business.” – lifesitenews.com

Knowing that Obama will veto the bill, one of its supporters, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) maintained that its “value is to let him know — the president — and others that there’s a big division in this country, and a lot of us don’t like it, and the American people don’t like it,” according to NPR. – catholicnewsagency.com