BREAKING: U.S. House votes to overturn Obama’s mandate forcing states to fund Planned Parenthood

The U.S. House voted 228 to 188 Thursday to overturn President Obama’s mandate forcing states to fund abortion giant Planned Parenthood. H.J. Res. 43, sponsored by Rep. Diane Black, passed with bipartisan support, and would reverse Obama’s parting gift to the abortion industry.

When it was passed in the waning days of his presidency, media reports proclaimed that Obama had made a permanent law preventing states from defunding Planned Parenthood. Black’s measure, however, allows states to use family planning funds under Title X in ways that do not support groups committing abortion — like Planned Parenthood.

Speaker Paul Ryan notes that Black’s resolution may change that seemingly permanent rule due to the Congressional Review Act:

Black testified on February 14, 2017, before the House Rules Committee about her resolution, and she had strong words about the Obama edict:

Black Fights to Overturn Obama Rule Forcing States to Fund Planned Parenthood

She testified:

Commenting on the lack of freedom Tennessee and other states have been given, despite their tenth amendment rights, Black notes that Washington, D.C., has usurped states’ rights. Those rights should be returned to them to make health care decisions for their own constituents, she says.

Further, Black explains, the hastily-enacted rule is founded on falsity:

Black assures the members that despite criticism, passing her resolution does not, in fact, defund Planned Parenthood; it simply returns the rights to the states. They could no longer be forced to fund a group committing abortion in order to fulfill the Title X funding requirements.

Passing her resolution will allow money to be reallocated to “more comprehensive providers – for example, community health centers, which outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics by a margin of 20 to 1,” Black said. It might, in fact, provide more access to low-income women, as the Texas Healthy Woman Program proves to do. (Live Action News reported details on the program this week.)

Now it’s up to the Senate to protect taxpayers from funding abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.