Senate Republicans today blocked a bogus Democrat bill that actually promotes a right to kill babies in abortions and trans surgeries on children.
Democrats claimed the measure was for a right to contraception – which already exists under the Griswald ruling the Supreme Court handed down before Roe. Instead, the measure was filled with funding for Planned Parenthood, America’s biggest abortion company.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate held a vote on Senator Ed Markey’s (D-MA) so-called “Right to Contraception Act,” more accurately titled the Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act. This misleading bill would funnel money to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, override conscience protections and create a “right” to abortion drugs.
Fortunately, the bill failed to get 60 votes and failed on a clture vote of 51-39 as all but two Republicans voted to block it.
“This is a show vote where Democrats are trying to distract from their radical position on abortion by conjuring a threat to contraception that doesn’t exist,” Sen. Ted Cruz told The Washington Times.
He’s right.
Ahead of the vote, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser slammed the Democrats’ extremism in a statement:
“While pro-life Americans celebrate two years of lives protected in the Dobbs era this June, Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer are planning a month-long campaign of fearmongering and demonizing pro-life protections. The Democrats’ deceptive Payouts to Planned Parenthood Act has less to do with access to contraception than with funneling taxpayer dollars to the abortion industry and crushing dissent. Contraception is legal and available in every state and Congress funds contraception through numerous federal programs every year.
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“With this bill, the devil is in the details. It requires taxpayers to bail out profit-driven abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood, where expectant mothers are sold abortions 97% of the time. It could even go so far as to create a ‘right’ to abortion drugs. It’s clear the Democrats’ priority is not helping women, but helping the abortion lobby that spends millions to get them elected.”
Meanwhile, the bill is a “Trojan horse” for subjecting children to “transgender” procedures.
Catholic pro-life leader Terry Schilling indicated Democrats wrote the bill to be “a Trojan horse for pushing sex change procedures on minors,” Schilling argued. He explained how the text of the bill goes about it:
There’s a clause in there that opens the door essentially to any activist group that wants to make the argument that these procedures have to be funded by taxpayers, because of this legislation.
“We’ve seen that this is not just a civil rights movement. It’s an industry,” Schilling pointed out. “The transgender industry is making $4.1 billion a year off of hormone procedures, sex change procedures, and surgeries.”
“They want to expand on that,” he added. “And their greatest market for expanding is with children and young people, who are impressionable.”
