It looks like a few Twitchy regulars weren’t real impressed with the part in Pope Francis’ address to Congress this morning when he said how important it was to “protect & defend human life at every stage of its development.”
First up, here’s Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards with a message to the Senate that will vote later today on whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood:
Reminder: What's at stake today when the Senate votes today on a measure to "defund" Planned Parenthood? #StandWithPP http://t.co/EvQcBSm9Fz
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) September 24, 2015
.@dawnlaguens fact-checks the political circus around women's health care as the Senate prepares to vote http://t.co/58qUnnGXau #StandWithPP
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) September 24, 2015
Cosmopolitan’s Jill Filipovic weighed in, too:
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/647085809351290880
FWIW, President Obama has already said he’d veto the spending bill if it’s even passed:
On the upcoming CR, we should fund the entire federal government, but we should decline to fund Planned Parenthood: http://t.co/mXzuY2DU14
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 24, 2015
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Veto Threat: WH puts it in writing: Pres Obama would veto Government Funding bill if it defunds Planned Parenthood. https://t.co/iqmQYt9HDN
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 24, 2015
Obama issues veto threat on bill defunding Planned Parenthood 4 "highly objectionable provisions that advance a narrow ideological agenda"
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) September 24, 2015
Of course this is the “narrow ideological agenda” of the very man everyone in Congress was clapping for a little while ago. Why not take a minute and take into account what Pope Francis just spoke so eloquently about?
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Related:
Twitchy coverage of Planned Parenthood