Fr. Marcel Guarnizo: How the GOP Should Fight Planned Parenthood

Do the atrocities against unborn children at the hands of Planned Parenthood recently captured on videotape by the pro-life movement, and circulated for all to see, move men and women of goodwill in all walks of life and positions of responsibility to redouble their efforts to end Planned Parenthood’s murder enabled by federal funding? Of course. Nevertheless Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood in the upcoming federal budget are at an impasse.

False expectations and even misleading statements are giving the impression that it is Republican obstructionism that is impeding the successful defunding of Planned Parenthood. This is not true.

The truth is, the GOP cannot secure sufficient votes to defund Planned Parenthood. The staunch conservatives in the House of Representatives and the Senate know this. Those who state this fact are simply telling the truth.

Their conclusion results not from a fear of fighting on this issue as some falsely accuse them. Ad hominem attacks do not change the fact that the votes in the Senate are not there. It is factual as well, that even if those Senate votes did exist, the votes to override a veto by President Obama also do not exist. This may be unpalatable, and hard-to-hear but this is reality.

We must understand what it really means when the pro-lifers demand that legislators never vote for a federal budget which funds Planned Parenthood...

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