{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-us-conference-catholic-bishops-urges-support-sen-rand-pauls-efforts-defund-planned-parenthood/", "U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Urges Support for Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood", "2015-08-03", "2015", "2015-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released the following letter today urging support for legislation, S.1881, to eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.\n\nThe text of the letter can be found HERE or below:\n\nLETTER TEXT:\n\nAugust 3, 2015\n\nDear Senator:\n\nI am writing to ask your support for S.1881, to withhold federal funds from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates.\n\nIt has long been troubling to many Americans that the nation\u2019s largest abortion network, performing over a third of all abortions, receives over half a billion taxpayer dollars a year. This concern has rightly grown in recent years.\n\nThe most recent revelations about Planned Parenthood\u2019s willingness to traffic in fetal tissue from abortions, and to alter abortion methods not for any reason related to women\u2019s health but to obtain more \u201cintact\u201d organs, is the latest demonstration of a callousness toward women and their unborn children that is shocking to many Americans.\n\nThe Catholic Church comes to this issue from a perspective rooted in experience. Catholic charitable agencies and pregnancy help centers have helped countless pregnant women find life-affirming alternatives to abortion. Our hospitals and other health facilities are second to none in providing quality health care for women.\n\nWe support the legislative proposal to reallocate federal funding, so that women can obtain their health care from providers that do not promote abortion. It is my sincere hope that you will be able to help advance this goal by supporting S.1881.\n\nSincerely,\n\nSe\u00e1n Cardinal O\u2019Malley\n\nArchbishop of Boston\n\nChairman\n\nCommittee on Pro-Life Activities\n\nU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:23:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-us-conference-catholic-bishops-urges-support-sen-rand-pauls-efforts-defund-planned-parenthood/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6685349401086569, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}