Star Parker op-ed: Ted Cruz Is Right On Planned Parenthood Funding

Ted Cruz is once again talking about government shutdown. This time it is about funding for Planned Parenthood.

And once again it is not going over well with some in his party.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called a strategy to withhold funding for the federal government unless taxpayer funds are pulled from Planned Parenthood an "exercise in futility."

The fiscal year for the federal budget ends Sept. 30. Without a continuing resolution authorizing ongoing funding, the government shuts down. Ted Cruz wants to hold that continuing resolution hostage to stop Planned Parenthood funding.

McConnell calls this an "exercise in futility" because in order to succeed, the Senate needs 60 votes, and 60 votes are not there.

Even if the 60 votes were there to pass a funding bill without the Planned Parenthood money, President Obama would veto it.

Congress would then have to override that veto, and the votes would not be there to do that.

So now what? Is McConnell right?

Conventional wisdom from the Republican "establishment" says that causing a shutdown is a losing proposition. If the votes are not there to defund Planned Parenthood, ultimately Congress will have to pass a funding resolution for the government, which will include Planned Parenthood funding, and, as in the past, Republicans will be blamed for the pain of the shutdown.

Taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, the No. 1 abortion provider in the country — performing 327,653 abortions in 2013, according to their annual report — has been an ongoing issue for pro-life conservatives.

Read the rest of the op-ed HERE.

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