Celebrities like Lena Dunham, Kerry Washington and Elizabeth Banks joined together Monday under the hashtag "#StandWithPP" to beat back a Senate vote to strip the embattled Planned Parenthood Federation of America of its federal funding after a series of damaging undercover videos kicked up a firestorm over the group's abortion practices.
The Twitter storm (see below for a more comprehensive list) was unleashed as Republicans forced a vote in the U.S. Senate on Monday evening to cancel the approximately $500 million that Planned Parenthood receives annually from the federal government to provide reproductive health services to low-income women. The legislation, sponsored by GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, would have shifted the taxpayer funds given to Planned Parenthood to other community health centers.
The vote of 53 to 46 fell short of the necessary 60-vote majority needed to kill Planned Parenthood's funding, but was considered an opening volley in what will be a increasingly heated battle that could disrupt congressional spending legislation this fall and dominate the debate among 2016 presidential candidates.
All of this comes after the release of video footage recorded secretly by anti-abortion activists from the Center for Medical Progress. In the undercover videos, Planned Parenthood officials are shown casually discussing how medical practitioners can best preserve fetal organs and tissue from abortions so they can be used for medical research – and how to set prices for such research material.
After the release of a particularly graphic portion of the video – which showed clinicians picking over fetal specimens with tweezers – presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made a rare comment critical of her allies at Planned Parenthood, saying of the videos, "I have seen pictures from them and obviously find them disturbing."
That did not stop her from leading the charge in the group's defense, voicing her support in a series of Tweets and releasing a video of her own on Monday, in which she called the vote a "full-on assault on women's health."
She was joined by the likes of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who Tweeted, "Shame on the GOP for playing games with women's health." All the while, conservatives rallied against the nonprofit, including presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who also released a video on Twitter.
The Twitter storm (see below for a more comprehensive list) was unleashed as Republicans forced a vote in the U.S. Senate on Monday evening to cancel the approximately $500 million that Planned Parenthood receives annually from the federal government to provide reproductive health services to low-income women. The legislation, sponsored by GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, would have shifted the taxpayer funds given to Planned Parenthood to other community health centers.
The vote of 53 to 46 fell short of the necessary 60-vote majority needed to kill Planned Parenthood's funding, but was considered an opening volley in what will be a increasingly heated battle that could disrupt congressional spending legislation this fall and dominate the debate among 2016 presidential candidates.
All of this comes after the release of video footage recorded secretly by anti-abortion activists from the Center for Medical Progress. In the undercover videos, Planned Parenthood officials are shown casually discussing how medical practitioners can best preserve fetal organs and tissue from abortions so they can be used for medical research – and how to set prices for such research material.
After the release of a particularly graphic portion of the video – which showed clinicians picking over fetal specimens with tweezers – presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made a rare comment critical of her allies at Planned Parenthood, saying of the videos, "I have seen pictures from them and obviously find them disturbing."
That did not stop her from leading the charge in the group's defense, voicing her support in a series of Tweets and releasing a video of her own on Monday, in which she called the vote a "full-on assault on women's health."
She was joined by the likes of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who Tweeted, "Shame on the GOP for playing games with women's health." All the while, conservatives rallied against the nonprofit, including presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who also released a video on Twitter.
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