BREAKING: “Vice President Pence cast a tie-breaking Senate vote Thursday to advance legislation that would allow states to withhold federal funds from Planned Parenthood and other health care providers that perform abortions.
The Senate, after a procedural vote, will now proceed to a measure that would dismiss an Obama-era rule banning states from denying federal funds to such organizations.
Pence’s vote was needed for the Senate to agree to bring the resolution to the floor. Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska broke with their party, voting against the measure.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., called the measure a “shameful, dangerous resolution.”
“We are not going to give up,” said Murray, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “We are going to keep making sure that women’s voices are heard.”
Since 2011, 13 states have restricted access to such grants, disrupting or reducing services in several instances.
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