WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) are co-sponsoring legislation to prohibit federal funding of Planned Parenthood.
The legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will also protect women’s health by directing the federal funds to other eligible entities that provide women’s health care services.
The legislation follows gruesome footage showcasing Planned Parenthood’s role in the harvesting of the organs of unborn babies.
“Each successive video of senior Planned Parenthood officials discussing the harvesting of tissue remains of aborted babies is more gruesome than the last,” Sen. Moran said. “Human lives are the cost of the organization’s appalling efforts to collect fetal organs and tissues. I have long opposed taxpayer funding for abortion providers, and now it has become even more obvious why our tax dollars should not be permitted to facilitate these disgusting practices. Planned Parenthood is perversely treating unborn children as a commodity to be abused, and there are real concerns that their actions are not only immoral but illegal. I am hopeful the Senate will soon vote on our legislation to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding.”
“The recent comments of high-level Planned Parenthood employees are deeply disturbing and must not be tolerated on any level,” said Roberts. “Any organization that allows such abhorrent behavior should not receive any taxpayer dollars, and I’m proud to cosponsor this legislation that would ensure that no federal funds go to Planned Parenthood. Every life is a precious gift that we have a responsibility to protect.”