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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1749036" data-attributes="member: 44954">Good point.&nbsp; I wonder why conservatives have decided to make this an issue.<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/22/the-planned-parenthood-controversy-may-have-killed-a-veterans-bill/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/22/the-planned-parenthood-controversy-may-have-killed-a-veterans-bill/</a>The burgeoning controversy over Planned Parenthood&#039;s fetal-tissue practices may have claimed its first victim: a bipartisan bill to help wounded veterans have children.The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/469/" target="_blank">Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act</a>, a bill authored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that would require fertility treatment and counseling for &quot;severely wounded, ill, or injured&quot; military members or veterans, had been expected to proceed through the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday. But Murray said she has asked that the bill be pulled thanks to proposed amendments from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) -- including one that would have, in Tillis&#039;s words, prevented the Department of Veterans Affairs from working with &quot;organizations that take human aborted babies&#039; organs and sell them.&quot;&quot;Republicans are trying to use this latest issue as just one more opportunity to roll back the clock and take away women’s health-care options,&quot; she said. &quot;We can have that fight. We’ve had it many times before. But don’t pull veterans into the middle of it. Don’t take something that should be above politics, our sacred duty to our veterans, pull it down into the muck of petty politics. It is not fair to veterans and their families who have been hoping and praying for the opportunity to have children.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1749036, member: 44954"] Good point. I wonder why conservatives have decided to make this an issue. [URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/22/the-planned-parenthood-controversy-may-have-killed-a-veterans-bill/[/URL] The burgeoning controversy over Planned Parenthood's fetal-tissue practices may have claimed its first victim: a bipartisan bill to help wounded veterans have children. The [URL='https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/469/']Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act[/URL], a bill authored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that would require fertility treatment and counseling for "severely wounded, ill, or injured" military members or veterans, had been expected to proceed through the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday. But Murray said she has asked that the bill be pulled thanks to proposed amendments from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) -- including one that would have, in Tillis's words, prevented the Department of Veterans Affairs from working with "organizations that take human aborted babies' organs and sell them." "Republicans are trying to use this latest issue as just one more opportunity to roll back the clock and take away women’s health-care options," she said. "We can have that fight. We’ve had it many times before. But don’t pull veterans into the middle of it. Don’t take something that should be above politics, our sacred duty to our veterans, pull it down into the muck of petty politics. It is not fair to veterans and their families who have been hoping and praying for the opportunity to have children." [/QUOTE]

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