Republican Tennessee Rep. Diane Black promised to “try any method we can” to halt the millions of federal tax dollars that flow to Planned Parenthood every year.”
“Planned Parenthood has the decision to make: do they want to fund 97 percent of what their services are to provide preventative care to women or do they want to provide the 3 percent of abortions,” Black said on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe.” (RELATED: Jim Jordan Unloads On Planned Parenthood President)
The sponsor of the Defund Planned Parenthood Act insisted that Congress needs to show President Obama “we are serious” about investigating Planned Parenthood.
“Let’s look at the films and let’s make sure that we get the information correct,” she said.
Willie Geist: Congresswoman, at the heart of all this, in the middle of this debate, what you want do is take that money away, the federal money away from Planned Parenthood. You’ll have to round up the votes to do that, obviously. Do you think you have a shot with this bill?
Diane Black: Well, we will try any method that we can at this point in time. Of course, my bill passed on the House floor. It has not still been taken up as a single stand-alone bill in the Senate. I can’t ever say ever say what the Senate is going to do, but we still have other methods we can do to get this to the desk of the president so we can show the president we are serious about it in Congress and what is he going to do to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their activities, their potentially illegal activities. Let’s blow the whistle, let’s look at these films, and let’s make sure that we get the information correct. And in the meantime, Planned Parenthood has the decision to make: do they want to fund 97 percent of what they say their services are to provide preventative care to women, or do they want to provide the 3 percent of abortions? I think that’s their decision to make.