House votes to defund Planned Parenthood

[realtonygoodwin]

Good news!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49830.html

[eduardo89]

unfortunately this won't pass in the senate...

[AZKing]

1 down, 10000000000000 to go.

[Sola_Fide]

Awesome.

[specsaregood]

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler called the amendment a “bill of attainder”- saying it was unconstitutional as such because the legislation was targeting a specific group.

“[An attainder is] a legislative enacted penalty, in this case no funding, directed at an identifiable person or organization to punish them for something. Article I Section 9 says ‘no bill of attainder or ex post facto should be passed.’ Fundamental foundation of constitutional law. If Planned Parenthood or anyone else is doing terrible things and ought to be punished, that’s up to the courts,” said the California congressman.

Whenever I see that argument it makes me want to hurt someone.
Yeah, not getting taxpayer money is a "penalty", please.

[eduardo89]

Whenever I see that argument it makes me want to hurt someone.
Yeah, not getting taxpayer money is a "penalty", please.

Not giving them taxpayer money to kill babies is a punishment.

[oyarde]

This would be most excellent . There should be zero tax dollars involved in that .