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GOP leaders scramble to avoid government shutdown over Planned Parenthood money

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to head off a politically damaging government shutdown in two weeks over rebellious conservatives' demand that any stopgap spending bill block federal funds for Planned Parenthood.

Leadership sought an outlet for GOP lawmakers' outrage after this summer's release of videos secretly recorded by abortion foes, who contend they show that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from selling tissue from aborted fetuses to medical researchers.

http://www.startribune.com/gop-leaders-hope-right-to-life-can-help-head-off-shutdown/327997951/

 

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