Senate Democrats on Monday blocked an effort to revoke federal funding for Planned Parenthood, following hours of debate and commentary from members of the Senate and 2016 candidates about women’s health care.
The Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, was blocked by a vote of 53 to 46. At least 60 votes were needed to overcome a filibuster. The legislation was a response to a series of undercover videos produced by anti-abortion activists who claim the organization is selling fetal tissue to researchers. (Planned Parenthood says the costs are only related to handling of the tissue donations, and it has done nothing wrong.)
“This is the beginning of the fight to regain America’s conscience,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said on the Senate floor.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts charged on the Senate floor that Monday’s vote was “not some sort of surprised response to a highly-edited video,” but “just one more piece of a deliberate methodical, orchestrated right-wing attack” on women’s health care.
“I’m sick and tired of it,” she said. “The American people are sick and tired of it.”
Had the legislation advanced, it would violate existing federal law and almost certainly face a challenge in court, Susan Fogel, the Director of Reproductive Health for the National Health Law Program, told CBS News.
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