Planned Parenthood funding stripped from war supplemental bill

Thaddeus M. Baklinski, LifeSiteNews: Pro-life groups across the U.S. are celebrating a victory with the removal of an amendment to the 2008 War Supplemental Bill (H.R. 2642) that would have given Planned Parenthood facilities discounted drugs at taxpayer expense. The amendment, tacked on to a bill meant to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, would have allowed for certain Planned Parenthood clinics and university healthcare centers to get drugs at further reduced prices, allowing for easier and cheaper distribution of controversial drugs such as birth control pills and the "morning after pill" or Plan B . The U.S. House of Representatives, however, stripped the Planned Parenthood provision at the last minute and then passed the bill . . . [Read More]

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