Anti-abortion groups fuming over the Republican failure to defund Planned Parenthood as part of ObamaCare repeal, are eyeing tax reform as the next vehicle for their cause.
The groups want Republicans to include language in a new budget to defund Planned Parenthood so that it could be included in a tax reform package that the GOP plans to move through the Senate under special budgetary rules that protect it from a Democratic filibuster.
“The failures to pass repeal and replace, including redirecting those dollars to other providers that don’t do abortions, has been incredibly disappointing to us,” said Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of government affairs at the Susan B. Anthony List, a D.C.-based group that works to elect anti-abortion members of Congress.
