TN legislators move to defund Planned Parenthood in wake of Lila Rose videos
UPDATE, 4/23, 1:20p:
Lila Rose will be on the Ed Morrissey Show today at 3pm EST.
[HT: Moderator Carder]
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Yesterday afternoon TN Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (speaking in photo), who is also the Senate President and thus extremely powerful, held a press conference with 3 other pro-life legislators calling on colleagues to support a bill streaming the $1.1 million currently going Planned Parenthood’s way elsewhere. From the TN Right to Life press release…
In a dramatic show of pro-life leadership… Ramsey called on state legislators to move quickly on Senate Bill 470, a proposal which would make the funding of public health departments a priority in the awarding of governmental contracts for programs including family planning and other health services for women in need.
Renewed action on the proposal comes just days following release of video showing a Memphis Planned Parenthood abortion counselor coaching a supposed 14-year-old to lie to a judge about the age of her 31-year-old boyfriend. Additionally the video appears to show violations of state law which requires the immediate reporting of suspected cases of statutory rape and abuse of minors….
SB 470 would require a process by which local and county health departments would receive priority consideration before distributing tax funds to private organizations such as PP.
According to the In Session blog, SB 470, which had been stalled for 2 months, has now been placed on the 4/28 Public Health & Family Assistance subcommittee calendar.
Memphis PP prez Barry Chase whined to the Associated Press that the video was “highly edited.” But Barry isn’t claiming it’s false now, is he?
Yet that’s all Nashville Public Radio needed to report as a blanket statement the video was “highly edited.” Apparently public radio newswriters are so loyal to their broadcast medium they don’t watch t.v. or video. If they had viewed Lila’s video they would not have been able to write “highly edited.”
As Ramsey stated at the press conference, according to NPR:
“Whether it was fictitious or not, I think it just shows the slant that PP and their employees have, and the bias that they have, toward guiding someone to have an abortion.”
Ramsey says PP would have denied the video if it weren’t accurate.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Look for the U. S. Marshall’s to be sent to Tn with federal vouchers to escort pregnant women into PP so they may not be denied their absolute unequivocal constitutional right and entitlement to a dead baby.
The Rainbow Coalition will provide the color guard with raised ceremonial scalpels gleaming in the sun dripping with the blood of the innocent.
Federalism and states rights will be put to the test once again.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Tea party time in Tennessee!
yor bro ken
Cut the funding off. They are running an illegal sex trafficking business.
Yea! Leadership…
can we defund NPR too? please.
“Tea party time in Tennessee!”
This is great news. Break out the champagne!
“can we defund NPR too? please. ”
Is NPR garbage, Jasper? I always hear people talk about it, and if I had to guess I would think that it is, but I don’t have the patience to listen to something like that.
HooYah!!
“Is NPR garbage, Jasper? I always hear people talk about it, and if I had to guess I would think that it is, but I don’t have the patience to listen to something like that.”
Bobby,
Actually, when NPR is not discussing politics, it’s pretty good to listen too for general news and events, etc. But once they start discussing politics, it’s obvious many times where their agenda is.
Don’t you love it when 20 year old gorgeous gals have
more spine that most congressmen and senators?
that=than
When my 12yo daughter heard of what Lila Rose and her group is doing to PP…she wants to know where she can sign up.
RSD, my 16 year old is the same way. She stands over my shoulder crying over what she sees here and on some other sites I frequent… she keeps saying she feels like she should be doing something “big”. I remind her just to do what God places in her path each day… He’ll figure out what she’s supposed to do.
RSD, Elisabeth,
How wonderful!! You should be very proud!
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Leslie,
I sure do. :)
Woot woot!
Glad to hear the good news!
If you go to Life Dynamics scroll down to Take Action.
There are several ideas, suggestions under Spies for Life. :) I have some things I would like to do too!!
http://www.ldi.org
Carla, Thanks for the link…
Janet, we are very proud. She actually engages pro-abort classmates in defending un-born Life…and the sad thing is: she’s in Catholic school.
Finally! It’s nice to see something being done.