Abortion Hijack: The Three Senators Who Killed the Latest Attempt at Obamacare Repeal and Replace are All Women Who Sympathize With Planned Parenthood

Claire Chretien : Jul 20, 2017
LifeSiteNews.com

Unbelievable.

(Washington, DC)—[LifeSiteNews] It looks like Planned Parenthood won't be defunded and Obamacare won't be repealed thanks to three Republican senators. (Photo: U.S Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia is one of three Republicans who refused to vote for the Better Care Reconciliation Act/Flickr/via LifeSiteNews.com)

Republicans failed to rally enough senators to vote for the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which would repeal and replace Obamacare. Then, Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced the Senate would instead only vote on repealing the pro-abortion healthcare law.

The bill repealing Obamacare would also defund Planned Parenthood for one year. Three Republican senators, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine, have all said they'd vote against the bill. This means McConnell doesn't have the 50 votes needed to debate and then pass the bill.

Capito has a mixed record on abortion, having voted for a few moderate pro-life bills but also to expand research on human embryonic stem cell lines and fund contraception. In 2015, she voted to repeal Obamacare, when it was obvious the then-president would veto the legislation. She said she doesn't support repealing Obamacare without a replacement... 

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