NEW DSCC AD: Pat Toomey Won’t Stand Up for Pennsylvania Women

V/O: Pat Toomey and Donald Trump.

GFX: Pat Toomey

Donald Trump

V/O: Both would defund Planned Parenthood.

GFX: Defund

Planned Parenthood

Vote 329, 12/3/15; Voted 311, 12/3/15; Vote 314, 12/3/15; Vote 262, 8/3/15; Vote 270, 9/24/15; Vote 60, 4/14/11; Vote 36, 3/9/11

TOOMEY SAID THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD…

Toomey: “You Know, I’d Like To Defund Planned Parenthood.” [00:00:51] TOOMEY: You know, I’d like to defund Planned Parenthood, but I understand that Republicans don’t have complete control of the elected government.” [MSNBC, Morning Joe, 4/8/11]

…AND VOTED 7 TIMES TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Toomey Voted For A Bill That Repealed Portions Of The 2010 Health Care Law And Blocked Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood For One Year. In December 2015, Toomey voted for: “Passage of the bill that would repeal portions of the 2010 health care law and block federal funding for Planned Parenthood for one year. As amended, the bill would zero-out the law’s penalties for noncompliance with the law’s requirements for most individuals to obtain health coverage and employers to offer health insurance. As amended, it also would scrap in 2018 the law’s Medicaid expansion, as well as subsidies to help individuals buy coverage through the insurance exchanges. It also would scrap certain taxes included in the law, including the tax on certain high-value employer-sponsored health insurance plans.” The bill was passed by a vote of 52-47. [CQ, 12/3/15; H.R. 3762, Vote 329, 12/3/15]

Toomey Voted To Block For One Year Federal Funding To Planned Parenthood And Against Funding To Women’s Health Clinics To Provide Services And Ensure The Safety Of The Clinics. In December 2015, Toomey voted for an: “Enzi, R-Wyo., motion to table (kill) the Murray, D-Wash., amendment no. 2876 to the McConnell, R-Ky., substitute amendment no. 2874 that would remove the section that would block for one year federal funding to Planned Parenthood. It also would establish a fund to make payments to women’s health clinics to provide services and to ensure safety of such clinics.” The motion was agreed to 54-46. [CQ, 12/3/15; S.Amdt.2876 to S.Amdt.2874 to H.R.3762, Vote 311, 12/3/15]

• Measure Continued Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood And Created A Fund To Support The Safety Of Women’s Health Clinics In The Wake Of A Shooting At A Colorado Planned Parenthood Facility. “The Senate previously tabled an amendment from Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that sought to continue funding for Planned Parenthood. Their bill also would have created a fund to support the safety of women’s health clinics for staff and patients in the wake of last week’s deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility.” [The Hill, Floor Action, 12/3/15]

Toomey Voted Against Removing The Section Of The Measure That Would Block For One Year Federal Funding That Is Considered Direct Spending To Planned Parenthood. In December 2015, Toomey voted against: “Collins, R-Maine, amendment no. 2885, to the McConnell substitute amendment no. 2874, that would remove the section of the measure that would block for one year federal funding that is considered direct spending to Planned Parenthood. The substitute would, instead of repealing the 2010 health law’s requirements for most individuals to obtain health coverage and employers to offer health insurance or face tax penalties, remove the law’s penalties for noncompliance. The substitute also would reinstate in 2025 the tax on certain high-value employer-sponsored health insurance plans, which would be repealed under the bill, and would add a provision that would force individuals to pay back the full amount of any subsidy overpayments.” The amendment was rejected 48-52. [CQ, 12/3/15; S.Amdt. 2885 to S.Amdt. 2874 to H.R.3762, Vote 314, 12/3/15]

• Measure Removed Language From The ACA Repeal Bill Blocking Federal Funds For Planned Parenthood. “The Senate on Thursday rejected an amendment to the ObamaCare repeal bill that would have allowed federal funding for Planned Parenthood. The measure sponsored by three Senate Republicans would have stripped language from the bill blocking federal funds for Planned Parenthood. It fell short by 3 votes, 48-52. Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who are both up for reelection next year, sponsored the amendment along with centrist Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine). They were the only three Republicans to back it along with all but one Democrat.” [The Hill, Floor Action, 12/3/15]

Toomey Voted To Advance A Bill That Would Prohibit Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood Or Any Of The Organization’s Affiliates, Subsidiaries, Successors, Or Clinics. In August 2015, Toomey voted for a: “Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the McConnell, R-Ky., motion to proceed to the bill that would prohibit federal funding for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America or any of the organization’s affiliates, subsidiaries, successors or clinics. The bill would state that it shall not be interpreted to reduce overall federal funding available for women’s health or to affect abortion-related limitations in appropriations laws.” The motions was rejected 53-46. [CQ, 8/3/15; S. 1881, Vote 262, 8/3/15]

Toomey Voted For A Motion That Would Prohibit For One Year Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood Or Its Affiliates Unless They Certify That They Will Not Perform, Or Fund Other Entities That Perform, Abortions During That Period. In September 2016, Toomey voted for a: “Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the Cochran, R-Miss., substitute amendment no. 2669 that would provide continuing appropriations for government operations through Dec. 11, 2015, at an annual rate of about $1.017 trillion. It also would prohibit for one year federal funding for Planned Parenthood or its affiliates unless they certify that they will not perform, or fund other entities that perform, abortions during that period. The substitute amendment would redirect $235 million to community health centers.” The motion was rejected by a vote of 47-52. [CQ, 9/24/15; S.Amdt. 2669 to H.J.Res. 61, Vote 270, 9/24/15]

Toomey Voted To Bar Use Of Funds For Planned Parenthood. In April 2011, Toomey voted in favor of: “Adoption of the concurrent resolution that would direct the House clerk to make a correction in the enrollment of a bill (HR 1473) to provide $1.055 trillion in discretionary funding for fiscal 2011, and insert a section that would bar the use of funds made available in the bill to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. or its affiliates.” The concurrent resolution was rejected 42-58. [CQ, 4/14/11; H.Con.Res. 36, Vote 60, 4/14/11]

Toomey Voted For 2011 Republican Continuing Resolution.  In March 2011, Toomey voted for: “Passage of the bill that would provide continuing appropriations through fiscal 2011 for all government agencies, except the Defense Department, which would receive $515.8 billion in base funding. Most other programs would be funded at fiscal 2010 levels, less eliminations, reductions and rescissions totaling roughly $61.5 billion. The bill does not include earmarks and eliminates all previous fiscal 2010 earmark funding from continuing appropriations. The bill would eliminate funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternative engine program and prohibit any funding from being made available to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates. It also would bar the use of funds made available in the bill for a variety of executive branch regulatory activities and implementation of several provisions of the health care overhaul law.” [CQ, 3/9/11; H.R. 1, Vote 36, 3/9/11]

• Continuing Resolution Blocked Funding To Planned Parenthood. “Eliminates Funding for the Title X Family Planning Program, Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Planned Parenthood H.R. 1 eliminates funding for the Title X program, which for more than 40 years has provided family planning services, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and other preventive health care to low-income women in need. Title X-funded health centers serve more than five million low-income women and men each year, and six in 10 women who obtain health care from a family planning center consider it to be their primary source of health care.” [National Women’s Law Center, 3/30/11]

TRUMP SAID THAT HE WAS “COMMITTED TO DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD”

Life News: “Donald Trump Announced Support For Defunding The Planned Parenthood Abortion Business If It Does Not Stop Killing Unborn Children In Abortion.” “In a new letter today outlining pro-life policy specifics, Donald Trump announced support for defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business if it does not stop killing unborn children in abortion. Since the abortion corporation has no intention of doing so, Trump believes federal taxpayer dollars should not flow to it. Trump today has issued a call to make permanent the Hyde Amendment that bans almost all federal taxpayer funding of abortions and is credited with saving the lives of over 1 million Americans from abortion. In that call is also a request for defunding Planned Parenthood — which stands in stark contrast to the essentially joint campaign Hillary Clinton and the abortion corporation are running for president. Planned Parenthood’s CEO is crisscrossing the country for Clinton and has put up $20 million for her.” [Life News, 9/16/16]

·         Trump Said He Was “Committed To Defunding Planned Parenthood.” “The call for defunding Planned Parenthood comes in a new letter from Trump today. ‘Hillary Clinton’s unwavering commitment to advancing taxpayer-funded abortion on-demand stands in stark contrast to the commitments I’ve made to advance the rights of unborn children and their mothers when elected president. I am committed to defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions and reallocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women,’ Trump says.”  [Life News, 9/16/16]

V/O: And criminalize women’s right to choose.

GFX: Toomey & Trump

Criminalize Women’s Right To Choose

TOOMEY SAID THAT HE WOULD SUPPORT LEGISLATION THAT WOULD BAN ABORTION

Toomey: “I Would Support Legislation In Pennsylvania That Would Ban Abortion.” [00:00:26] TOOMEY: “And I think that states should be free to restrict abortion, and I would support legislation in Pennsylvania that would ban abortion, and I would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them if we were able to pass that law.” [MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 8/4/09]

TRUMP SUPPORTED BANNING ABORTION AND SAID HE WOULD APPOINT SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO OVERTURN ROE V. WADE

Trump On Abortion: “You Have To Ban It.” [0:00] TRUMP: “I am pro-life, yes.” MATTHEWS: “How do you ban abortion? How do you actually do it?” TRUMP: “Well you go back to a position like they had, where people will perhaps go to illegal places, but you have to ban it.” [MSNBC, Trump Town Hall, 3/30/16]

Trump: Roe V. Wade Was “Very Wrongly Decided But It Can Be Changed.” David Brody:  “But beyond judges, do you believe Roe V. Wade was wrongly decided back in the day, back in 1973?” Donald Trump: ‘Well I do. It’s been very strongly decided but it can be changed. Things are put there and they’re passed but they can be unpassed with time but it’s going to take time because you have a lot of judges to go.” [Life News, 2/18/16]

• Life News: “Trump Said He Would Appoint ‘Very Good Judges’ Who Would Ultimately ‘Change’” Roe V. Wade. “In the second part of an interview with David Brody of CBN, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he thinks the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that ushered in an era of 48 million abortions was ‘wrongly decided.’ Trump said he would appoint ‘very good judges’ who would ultimately ‘change it’ but he opposed Roe without specifically saying it should be overturned.” [Life News, 2/18/16]

• Headline: “Donald Trump: Roe V. Wade Was ‘Wrongly Decided,’ I Will Appoint Justices To Change It” [Life News, 2/18/16]

When Asked If His Supreme Court Appointees Would Overturn Roe V. Wade, Trump Refused To Rule It Out And Said “We Will See.” “O’REILLY: Alright, so let me just get this straight so Diane’s question is answered. Your specific thing to protect the sanctity of life would be appointing a Supreme Court justice that would overturn Roe V. Wade. Do I have it? TRUMP: “Well, they will be pro-life, and we will see about overturning. But I will appoint judges that will be pro-life, yes.”

[Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, 5/10/16; Media Matters for America, 5/10/16]

In Response To A Question About How He Would Protect The Sanctity Of Life, Trump Said He Would Protect It By Appointing Anti-Choice Justices To The Supreme Court. “Despite his wildly fluctuating stance on abortion rights over the years, presidential hopeful Donald Trump said on Tuesday that if elected, he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would likely overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion in America. Asked on Fox News what one thing he would do to ‘protect the sanctity of life,’ Trump told host Bill O’Reilly, ‘I will protect it, and the biggest way you can protect it is through the Supreme Court and putting people on the court. Actually, the biggest way you can protect it, I guess, is by electing me president.’” [Huffington Post, 5/11/16]

• Headline: “Donald Trump Promises To Appoint Anti-Abortion Justice To Supreme Court” [Huffington Post, 5/11/16]

Trump Said He Would Appoint Supreme Court Justice To Replace Scalia Who Would “Be A Person Of Similar Views And Principles.” “Full text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript […] The politicians have talked about it, I’m going to do it. We are also going to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court who will uphold our laws and our Constitution. The replacement for Justice Scalia will be a person of similar views and principles. This will be one of the most important issues decided by this election.” [Politico, 7/21/16]

• Anti-Abortion Group Said Scalia “Was One Of The Strongest Critics On The Court Of The 1973 Decision In Roe V. Wade, As Unconstitutional And Illegitimate.” “Anti-abortion groups know they are going to miss Justice Antonin Scalia’s strong voice as the Supreme Court hears arguments on March 2 about what is expected to be a landmark abortion case, and they issued statements lamenting his death.  […] Americans United for Life, another anti-abortion group, also issued a statement praising Justice Scalia’s support for the decisions of state governments, not the assessments of courts, in adopting stringent abortion regulations.  ‘Justice Antonin Scalia was a longstanding and consistent voice on the court for allowing the American people, through the democratic process, to protect human beings from abortion or assisted suicide,’ the statement said. ‘He was one of the strongest critics on the court of the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, as unconstitutional and illegitimate.’” [New York Times, 2/13/16]

TRUMP: There has to be some form of punishment

MATTHEWS: For the woman?

TRUMP: Yeah.

TRUMP SAID “THERE HAS TO BE SOME FORM OF PUNISHMENT” FOR A WOMAN GETTING AN ABORTION

Trump Said “There Has To Be Some Form Of Punishment” For A Woman Getting An Abortion. “[0:42] MATTHEWS: “Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no as a principle?” TRUMP: “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.” MATTHEWS: “For the woman?” TRUMP: “Yeah, there has to be some form.” MATTHEWS: “Ten years? What?” TRUMP: “That I don’t know.” [MSNBC, Trump Town Hall, 3/30/16]

TOOMEY: I would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them.

TOOMEY SAID THAT DOCTORS SHOULD BE PUT IN JAIL FOR PERFORMING ABORTIONS

Toomey: “I Would Suggest That We Have Penalties For Doctors Who Perform Them.” “[00:00:26] TOOMEY: “And I think that states should be free to restrict abortion, and I would support legislation in Pennsylvania that would ban abortion, and I would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them if we were able to pass that law.” [MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 8/4/09]

V/O: And when Donald Trump insulted women and bragged about sexual assault, Pat Toomey refused to reject him.

GFX: Refused to Reject Donald Trump

Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/11/16

TOOMEY REFUSED TO RULE OUT VOTING FOR TRUMP EVEN AFTER TRUMP WAS CAUGHT ON TAPE BOASTING ABOUT “AGGRESSIVELY GROPING AND KISSING WOMEN WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT”

Philadelphia Inquirer: Toomey “Refused To Rule Out Voting For Donald Trump For President Despite” The “Release Of A Video In Which Trump Boasted About Aggressively Groping And Kissing Women Without Their Consent.” “Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) still won’t say whom he’ll support for president.  Locked in one of the country’s toughest Senate races, Toomey on Tuesday refused to rule out voting for Donald Trump for president despite building political pressure and defections by high-profile Republicans after release of a video in which Trump boasted about aggressively groping and kissing women without their consent.  In an hour-long interview with journalists from the Inquirer and the Daily News, Toomey said he had made clear for months that he had serious reservations about the GOP nominee, and still does.  But he left open the possibility that he might yet vote for Trump and might not announce a decision before Election Day, prolonging a major question hanging over his nationally watched campaign.”  [Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/11/16]

V/O: Pat Toomey won’t stand up to Trump. Won’t stand up for women.

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Won’t stand up to Trump. Won’t Stand up for women.

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