Two prominent moderate Republicans in the Senate, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have voiced concerns over a key provision in the House’s reconciliation bill — the “Big Beautiful Bill — that would bar Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds.
The provision, which has been championed by more conservative members of the GOP, could become a flashpoint in upcoming Senate negotiations.
The senators are long-standing advocates for abortion. They signaled their opposition to the Planned Parenthood ban in comments to the website NOTUS.org, suggesting it could jeopardize support for the reconciliation package in its current form.
Murkowski emphasized the real-world impacts such cuts would have on her constituents, particularly in rural areas. She is a supporter of abortions for Native women.
“I’m going to continue to be an advocate for the services that Planned Parenthood provides. In Alaska, we’ve got limited services for women in the first place,” she told NOTUS. “They play an important role. So I’m going to continue being an advocate.”
Maine and Alaska have already experienced significant reductions in federal support for reproductive health through the Title X family planning program. Both states have seen Planned Parenthood closures or reduced services in recent months.
Collins has also indicated resistance to the defunding effort, aligning with Murkowski in previous votes where they broke with their party on reproductive rights issues. The two senators are expected to be key swing votes as the Senate prepares to take up its own version of the reconciliation bill, and their skepticism may force revisions to the House-passed language.
As negotiations continue, the Planned Parenthood funding ban is shaping up to be a significant hurdle and one that will give Murkowski the leverage she may want to kill other priorities in the bill.
Taxpayers put over $700 million into Planned Parenthood each year, whether or not they agree with the organization’s primary services — which are abortion and transgender medicine.
The gift that never stops giving.
Princess Pork would oppose Trump if he brought world peace.
Thanks afternoon radio host. this is your creation.
Why stop there?
Why not demand abortions?
Why not require them to get a driver’s license, vote, or walk the dog?
This site is really buggy lately.
We new she was a baby killer. I didn’t realize she was the Margaret sanger for Alaska native woman, she must really hate native babies.
Mostly she’s just a political prostitute – Planned Parenthood is one of her biggest donors.
This might be a good time for Archbishop Belisario to give Lisa a courtesy call………….
Planned Parenthood provides a plethora of healthcare services for women & NOT just abortions. It should be funded!
They provide very few other services. Abortion is their cash cow. Now the start trans treatment on 16 year olds. Without counseling or parental notification. You are one vile person
What other women’s services do they offer? Why haven’t they put OBGYN’s out of business?
We are past the time to get rid of her and her attack on Alaskans that voted the majority for Trump.
Murkowski is clearly demonic
Screwed up Murkowski is at it again! Pushing any woman who wants an abortion to do it with Murkowski’s help.
What is the mental case from Alaska working on? Same thing as usual and that is to convince any woman to get an abortion for any reason.
Murkowski has a screw loose. It’s not normal for a person to work so diligently over many years to entice women to “kill” the fetus in their womb. Screwed up Murkowski is a serious threat to healthy minded women.
They know where their bread is buttered, govt cheese.
How many Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural Alaska?
I presume abortions in the rural areas are more likely to be done via the pill due to a lack of nearby medical facilities. A recent study by Ethics and Public Policy Center found 11% of those having aborted their babies by pill had a serious reaction within 45 days of the abortion. What are women in rural Alaska going to do when they get sepsis from the abortion?
See ‘https://eppc.org/publication/the-abortion-pill-harms-womeninsurance-data-reveals-repeated-abortionattempts-due-to-high-failure-rate/ and
‘https://eppc.org/publication/the-abortion-pill-harms-womeninsurance-data-reveals-repeated-abortionattempts-due-to-high-failure-rate/.
Murky never met a baby she wouldn’t abort.
These people are demonic.
Genital mutilation of minors.
Senior euthanasia.
Anthropomorphism.
My body my choice – except when it comes to forced vaccines.
In the context of health care funding, “primary care” refers to the essential, accessible, and affordable health services that form the foundation of a comprehensive healthcare system. It encompasses a range of services aimed at promoting health, preventing disease, diagnosing and treating common conditions, and providing ongoing care for chronic illnesses. Primary care does NOT mean the most common services provided by Planned Parenthood as the article claims. Additionally, abortion makes up only about 3% of the services provided by Planned Parenthood. The vast majority of services that Planned Parenthood provides includes routine reproductive care beyond abortion: birth control; STI/STD testing and treatment; well-woman health care; cancer screenings like PAP smears; LEEP procedures to remove cancerous cells from the cervix; sex education; and more recently, gender affirming care. Some Planned Parenthood clinics also offer prenatal and postnatal care and fertility treatments.
If Planned Parenthood was totally defunded, poor states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana along with rural and remote states like Alaska would suffer cascading health crises due to the lack of primary and preventative care. Republicans defund Planned Parenthood at the risk of political suicide.
That is total BS
Stop lying.
Let me guess – you are an abortionist.
Unfortunately your info is out of date. Planned Parenthood is rapidly decreasing their screenings and non-controversial care.
‘https://www.heritage.org/life/commentary/planned-parenthoods-overdue-annual-report-finally-out-heres-what-you-should-know
Alaska Native communities need to be vigilant against this attack on their most precious resource, their children, that the abortion pill is flooding into their rural villages. Sexual predators love the abortion pill. It takes away all the consequences of their horrible acts. I have Native students that are precious and extremely Creative. We need every Native child born alive.
“Planned Non-Parenthood” would be a much more honest name.
Covers for the predators in rural communities; helping abort the evidence of their crimes. Supports the erasure of native people. Sounds about right. Praying for her conversion.
Only 3 percent? Surely Planned Parenthood would give up that “service” so that they can “support women” with “primary health services”, no?
Nancy, you kept telling me that you were on the rhythm method and that I could relax and not worry. But then we got pregnant and as good Catholics we could not consider abortion. Now that Lisa is advocating abortion, we should have stayed with our intuition, or just changed religions. Our later years would have been trouble free.
Frankie, I warned you that big Catholic families risk spawning at least one little devil. We got ours.
In spades, Nancy. You got your devil in spades.
Maybe she wants to ensure that Native women don’t reproduce. In any case, we have got to replace her with a genuine conservative.
Planned UN-Parenthood—Do unto others—Lisa, if your daddy and mommy had done to you what you’re promoting, need I say more?
And Suzanne, ‘moderate Republicans’ is far from accurate, need I say more?
I will continue to support MRA because you do a great service for us and it’s obvious that you are a very hard working patriot!
Planned Parenthood is running a money laundering scheme where they take taxpayer funds with one hand and make contributions to their favorite politicians with the other. The recipients of this funding don’t want it to end.
Planned Parenthoof’s primary purpose is helping women deliver healthy babies.
Please stop lying.
Get your Covid booster please.
In the alternate universe where the Cackling Ho is president and Joe Biden is not senile.
“Two prominent moderate Republicans in the Senate, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine” … They are prominent and moderate, in the democratic party. These two are nor Republicans.
Planned Parenthood has obviously been double dipping for many years collecting tax dollars for their work.
There is big money made from the sale of whole aborted fetuses and baby parts and pieces when Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act in 1993.
Tissue procurement companies reimburse Planned Parenthood for costs of processing, preservation, quality control, transportation and storage of fetuses and parts.
Pharmaceutical research uses the tissue for DNA vaccine development and research through NIH.
How many billions were paid for the vaccines by the federal government for mandated shots?
Paul Pelosi’s venture capitalist business is heavily invested in Pharmaceutical research for a reason.
what we are observing is the “death cult” which showed itself active at the Democratic Convention where abortion pills and vasectomies were free during the convention. Abortionist are part of the death cult, harvesting of baby parts is part of it as well as mutilating and sterilizing children. Bill Gates and any who vote for abotions or harming humans are a part of this cult including Bill Gates. Pray to block their efforts at every level. Murkowski wants control no matter who are harmed.
Lisa needs to go away! She will oppose anything coming from Trump no matter who she hurts which is very childish.
We give Planned Parenthood $700 million a year and they in turn sell baby parts for profits.
Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, joined the eugenics movement which was always based in racism. Sanger was a speaker for KKK women and had a guest speaker from Nazi Germany for her group.
Forced sterilization had been rampant in the U.S. in the 20th century, primarily targeting Blacks and the poor. As the practice began falling out of favor, government funding for Planned Parenthood was normalized. True to the racist agenda, Planned Parenthood has placed approx. 79% of their abortion centers in minority neighborhoods resulting in a genocidal reduction of Black people.
Each time I’ve checked State of Alaska abortion statistics, more Native babies were killed with state funds than other races, proportionate to their numbers in the population. It’s not surprising “Murkowski emphasized the real-world impacts such cuts would have on her constituents, particularly in rural areas”. Not only is abortion big business, for Alaskan Natives, it has a genocidal element.
I find it disgusting that Murkowski likes the cultural appropriation of wearing a kuspuk, decorating her office with Native artifacts and pandering to Natives while increasing their demise.