Senate Vote to Defund Planned Parenthood Fails as Nat'l Survey Shows PP More Popular than Republican Party

NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll taken July 26-30

"The fight over funding for Planned Parenthood shifts to a must-pass government funding measure this fall after a procedural vote in the Senate on legislation that would 
have barred all federal funds for the group failed on Monday...

...Conservatives in both the House and Senate are demanding that their leaders attach a provision to any spending bill to block additional federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters (the) GOP should use 'any and every procedural tool available' to defund Planned Parenthood.  When pressed if that meant forcing a government shutdown over the issue, Cruz, argued Democrats should be the ones asked..."

eye'm thynkin': Shutting down the government at the beginning of the 2016 election cycle doesn't seem like a smart move to me, especially based on videos that have been shown to be grossly misleading.  Mr. Cruz may want to read the fetal-tissue law that his fellow Senate Republicans passed by a vote of 93-4 in 1993, paying special attention to the section that says abortion providers may charge medical researchers for access to those tissues.

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