Ted Cruz: Ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood should be a ‘100 to nothing vote’

On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted to pass a continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the government through December. The CR included funds for scandal-ridden Planned Parenthood. After voting against the CR and attempting to table it, Senator Ted Cruz took to the floor to broadcast the truth about Planned Parenthood, calling on all Americans to watch the videos.

Cruz’s sixty-minute speech can be watched in full here. Below is a nine-minute clip.

Referring to Planned Parenthood as a “criminal enterprise,” Cruz laid out the case against giving the abortion giant a single cent of taxpayer dollars. Planned Parenthood’s organization-wide abuse of the law disqualifies it from being a legitimate women’s health care provider, particularly as there are over 13,000 other comprehensive health care clinics the funds could be redirected to.

These health care clinics are far more effective at serving low-income women than Planned Parenthood. As the statistics prove out: “[I]n one year, Planned Parenthood provides breast exams to just under 0.8% of the reproductive-age women in the United States.” And, from 2011-2014: “Planned Parenthood dropped the number of Pap tests provided by roughly 100,000 a year. In fiscal year 2013-2014, more than 200,000 less women received a Pap test at Planned Parenthood.”

Still, as Sen. Cruz pointed out, President Obama and pro-abortion politicians are willing to “crawl over broken glass with a knife between their teeth” to fund the abortion giant anyway.

This article points out the difference in services for women at the over 13,000 health care clinics compared to Planned Parenthood:

In the first moments of his speech, Cruz referenced the “volcanic” frustration of the American people. As he last week in Politico, Cruz attributes much of the frustration to politicians who promise they will advance a conservative cause and yet, when the time comes to actually put up a fight, they surrender, again and again.

He explained:

Sen. Cruz has promised that, if he is elected president, he will send the Department of Justice into Planned Parenthood to investigate its rampant violation of the law.