{"id":30262,"date":"2015-07-31T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=30262"},"modified":"2015-07-31T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:54:41","slug":"we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here’s How."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Photo<\/a>
Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by Ron Cogswell Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood \u2014 as opposed to using it for a campaign issue \u2014 they can.<\/p>\n

First we have to defund the half billion or so of over the counter money that goes to PP. Part of this involves transferring these monies to other entities. I am totally opposed to creating another\u00a0form of \u201cprivatized\u201d health care funding, which is what PP is. All we need to do is transfer the monies to the various city, county and state health departments with strong language about how it must be used and penalties for mis-use.<\/p>\n

These are already existing facilities who do a lot of this same kind of work now.<\/p>\n

The real trick is to pry the $$ loose from PP in the first place. I offer a plan for doing this, as well as an explanation for why the move the United States Senate is making now is a no-go, in a post I wrote for the National Catholic Register.<\/p>\n

I want to emphasize that I am not\u00a0<\/i>saying that we can\u2019t get this done. I am saying that we can\u2019t get it done by the methods that the Senate is currently using.<\/p>\n

Too many so-called pro-life Senators say things like \u201cI\u2019d like to defund Planned Parenthood, but<\/em>, we need to do this or that corporatist thing first because pro life is really, you know, a distraction from\u00a0the serious business of government.\u201d You can take it to the bank that this guy or gal ain\u2019t never gonna do anything but vote pro life out in public when they are forced to and that they will cut pro life concerns off at the knees in the back rooms where none of us can see.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0up to us, the pro life people of America, to pressure them to stop playing politics with this, and get serious about making it happen. We are the babies\u2019 only voice.<\/p>\n

From the National Catholic Register<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Without this bill, we face a long slog through other amendments on less important bills or a standalone bill, all of which are unlikely to make it to law. It appears that what Majority Leader McConnell has set up is a vote or votes that are doomed to fail so far as lawmaking goes, but that will make nice fodder for the upcoming campaign. \u2014<\/em>Rebecca Hamilton<\/p>\n

I quoted myself at the top of this post. It\u2019s not often that I get to be a prophet \u2026 and in a 24-hour turnaround, no less.<\/p>\n

Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) announced Wednesday that she had filed a bill that would (drum roll) \u201cdefund Planned Parenthood!!!!\u201d Her first co-author is none less than (trumpet fanfare) Majority Leader Mitch McConnell!!!!<\/p>\n

Then, Majority Leader McConnell (bring out the sparklers) said that the Senate will \u201cvote\u201d on the bill as early as next week!!!!<\/p>\n

Attaboy!<\/p>\n

Attagirl!<\/p>\n

We got \u2018em!\u00a0Planned Parenthood is doomed, I say \u2014\u00a0dooooomed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just out of curiosity: Is anybody out there actually believing this? Because if you are, I\u2019ve got some land in Florida and a bridge in Brooklyn that we need to talk about.<\/p>\n

Remember when I wrote about tactics, strategy and all that stuff? Well, what we are seeing here is a short course in Political Tactics 101. The trouble is, these tactics are being used against us, not for us.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t going to be a straight-up, standalone statute go into law defunding Planned Parenthood. Will. Not. Happen.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Let me count the ways.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood \u2014 as opposed to using it for a campaign issue \u2014 they can. First we have to defund the half billion or so of over the counter money that goes to PP. Part of this involves transferring these monies to other entities. I am totally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":29843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7041,33,6270,6126,7228,538,7674,41,5302,48,1,46],"tags":[7702,7699,342,7704,7703],"class_list":["post-30262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abortion-2","category-america","category-child-sacrifice-2","category-corporatism-2","category-corruption-2","category-health-care","category-national-catholic-register-2","category-politics","category-post-christian-west","category-pro-life","category-uncategorized","category-feminism","tag-defundpp","tag-defund-planned-parenthood","tag-prolife","tag-prolife-politics","tag-senate-vote-to-defund-planned-parenthood"],"yoast_head":"\nWe Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here's How.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood -- as opposed to using it for a campaign issue -- they can. First we have to defund the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here's How.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood -- as opposed to using it for a campaign issue -- they can. First we have to defund the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Catholic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-31T15:50:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-07-31T15:54:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/06\/congress-house-of-representatives.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"296\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rebecca Hamilton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rebecca Hamilton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/\",\"name\":\"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here's How.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-31T15:50:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-31T15:54:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d\"},\"description\":\"If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood -- as opposed to using it for a campaign issue -- they can. First we have to defund the\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here’s How.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/\",\"name\":\"Public Catholic\",\"description\":\"Catholic in the Public Square\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d\",\"name\":\"Rebecca Hamilton\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rebecca Hamilton\"},\"description\":\"During her tenure in the Oklahoma Legislature, Rep. Hamilton has been an advocate for human rights, believing that government must support and defend the sanctity of all human lives, from conception to natural death. Representative Hamilton: Authored the original Victim\u2019s Protective Order to protect battered women, Obtained funding for the first statewide program for adult day care and the first statewide program of domestic violence shelters, and she She has also passed legislation to prevent law enforcement officials from publicly posting the private information of rape victims, Rep. Hamilton authored a 2005 law hailed as the most significant piece of pro-life legislation in Oklahoma in 30 years. She also passed the bill outlawing elective abortions in state-funded hospitals She has passed pro life bills requiring informed consent, parental notification, and limiting forced abortions. She also passed a law allowing prosecutors to file criminal charges against anyone who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child by harming the mother. Rep. Hamilton has also authored legislation ensuring taxpayers are not forced to subsidize elective abortions Rep. Hamilton was one of six original co-founders of first rape crisis center in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City Democrat has worked to bring a wide range of groups together to fight on the behalf of abused women, including the creation of the Annual Day of Prayer for an End to Violence Against Women at the Oklahoma Capitol. Rep. Hamilton has been married for 30 years to her husband, Rodney, and the couple has two grown sons. She attends St. James Catholic Church, and is a long-time volunteer at Birth Choice of Oklahoma.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/author\/rhamilton\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here's How.","description":"If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood -- as opposed to using it for a campaign issue -- they can. First we have to defund the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here's How.","og_description":"If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood -- as opposed to using it for a campaign issue -- they can. First we have to defund the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/","og_site_name":"Public Catholic","article_published_time":"2015-07-31T15:50:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-07-31T15:54:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":296,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/06\/congress-house-of-representatives.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Rebecca Hamilton","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rebecca Hamilton","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/","name":"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here's How.","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-07-31T15:50:40+00:00","dateModified":"2015-07-31T15:54:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d"},"description":"If our elected officials truly want to defund Planned Parenthood -- as opposed to using it for a campaign issue -- they can. First we have to defund the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/07\/we-can-defund-planned-parenthood-if-we-want-to-heres-how\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"We Can Defund Planned Parenthood if We Want To. Here’s How."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/","name":"Public Catholic","description":"Catholic in the Public Square","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/e8d2778109308e0e776e5c16eae7b67d","name":"Rebecca Hamilton","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6253ced313d53e0b7bfa51e5c9eb56d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Rebecca Hamilton"},"description":"During her tenure in the Oklahoma Legislature, Rep. Hamilton has been an advocate for human rights, believing that government must support and defend the sanctity of all human lives, from conception to natural death. Representative Hamilton: Authored the original Victim\u2019s Protective Order to protect battered women, Obtained funding for the first statewide program for adult day care and the first statewide program of domestic violence shelters, and she She has also passed legislation to prevent law enforcement officials from publicly posting the private information of rape victims, Rep. Hamilton authored a 2005 law hailed as the most significant piece of pro-life legislation in Oklahoma in 30 years. She also passed the bill outlawing elective abortions in state-funded hospitals She has passed pro life bills requiring informed consent, parental notification, and limiting forced abortions. She also passed a law allowing prosecutors to file criminal charges against anyone who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child by harming the mother. Rep. Hamilton has also authored legislation ensuring taxpayers are not forced to subsidize elective abortions Rep. Hamilton was one of six original co-founders of first rape crisis center in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City Democrat has worked to bring a wide range of groups together to fight on the behalf of abused women, including the creation of the Annual Day of Prayer for an End to Violence Against Women at the Oklahoma Capitol. Rep. Hamilton has been married for 30 years to her husband, Rodney, and the couple has two grown sons. She attends St. James Catholic Church, and is a long-time volunteer at Birth Choice of Oklahoma.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/author\/rhamilton\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30263,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262\/revisions\/30263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}