Republicans Insist Planned Parenthood Committee Isn't Specifically Targeting Planned Parenthood
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Republicans Insist Planned Parenthood Committee Isn't Specifically Targeting Planned Parenthood
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/planned-parenthood-committee-colorado-shooting_5665f66ce4b072e9d1c72273?utm_hp_ref=politics
At least, that's their story since the Planned Parenthood shooting.
Samantha Lachman
Staff Reporter, The Huffington Post
12/07/2015 05:56 pm ET
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WASHINGTON -- Ever since a gunman on a shooting rampage killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic late last month, Republicans on the select panel convened to investigate Planned Parenthood have been insisting that the committee isn't targeting the nation's largest abortion provider.
In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, Democrats have called for the committee to be disbanded. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that the committee "serves only to continue the witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, its staff and its patients."
The Republican response has been to point out that the October resolution establishing the special committee referred generally to "abortion providers," but not Planned Parenthood. Then-Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) similarly said the panel would "focus on the grisly practices of big abortion providers," without mentioning Planned Parenthood explicitly, when he appointed the Republican members of the committee.
"Instead of playing politics with this tragedy, maybe those on the left … should actually take the time to read the resolution establishing the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the select committee's chair, told The Hill last month. "At no point does it mention Planned Parenthood."...........
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