The Washington Examiner reported today that the House of Representatives has voted to suspend federal funding of Planned Parenthood for a year. The vote was largely along party lines–five Democrats joined the Republicans in calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood for a year.

The article reports:

After Friday’s House votes, the Planned Parenthood fight will move to the Senate, which is expected next week to consider a spending bill with a defunding measure attached, although Republicans admit they’ll almost certainly fall short of the 60 votes needed to pass it. Then the major question will be whether Republican and Democratic leaders in both chambers can negotiate a spending bill if conservatives don’t give any ground.

House Democrats were outraged by the Friday vote, and defended Planned Parenthood’s work providing non-abortion healthcare services to poor women. They also accused Republicans of pushing the issue to shut down the government.

This is another example of why Donald Trump is leading in the polls. The Planned Parenthood videos were horrific. Even if they were edited, it was obvious that Planned Parenthood was making money selling aborted baby body parts. The media has chosen to give very little attention to this matter, and thus it has generally escaped the attention of the American public. However, at some point in the future, when the facts are actually known, many Americans are going to wonder what kind of people would participate in selling baby parts for profit.

The funding of Planned Parenthood will not stop–they have paid too much for those Democratic Senators, and those Senators want to continue to receive nice campaign contributions from the Planned Parenthood PAC‘s so that they can remain in office (see opensecrets.org). This is a show vote, and unless the Republicans make a strong stand on this and other matters, we will continue to see Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders surge in the polls.