Without Planned Parenthood Funding Prohibition, Collins Opposes Funding Bill

Statement

Today, Congressman Doug Collins voted against H.R. 719, a short term spending measure to fund the government through December, because it did not contain a specific prohibition against federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Congressman Collins issued the following statement after the vote:

"I will not go against my belief in the sanctity of life and support a funding measure that does not contain a specific prohibition against federal funding of Planned Parenthood. I do not trust HHS or any government agency to respect Congressional intent when it comes to an issue as foundational to our moral fabric as life. Our very humanity and sense of dignity as individuals and as a nation has been called into question by the recent revelations about Planned Parenthood. To not specifically cut off all avenues of funding for an organization that reduces the bodies of unborn babies to marketable "tissue samples" should cause every person, young and old, to pause and grieve. The responsibility of government should be to protect life. Today, I'm afraid we lost sight of that goal in an effort to avoid a temporary shutdown."

"The very fact that we are forced to turn to a short term continuing resolution is a failure. To then ask Members of Congress to choose between taking a moral stand or an economic stand is an even greater failure. Shutting down the government has a temporary, devastating impact on American families, but Planned Parenthood has ripped apart and sold our next generation."

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