Don’t be so cocky, baby killers.

(Politico) — The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, facing a looming vote in the Senate to cut its federal funding, argues that the ferocious political battle waged over the past few weeks has actually been a positive — a skirmish that finally achieved what abortion rights groups have attempted for a decade by shifting the debate onto the terrain of women’s health.

“Going after the strongest brand in women’s health in America is one of the stupidest things the Republican Party could have done,” Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said in an interview.

The attempt to cut the group’s funding provided “a real opportunity to do what we’ve been trying to do for the last five years — to say that these are not political issues but, rather, issues of women’s health and to get out of this being such an intellectual, rights-based conversation to where it is such a fundamental matter of women’s health,” Richards said.

The House, led by Indiana Republican Mike Pence, overwhelmingly passed the measure two weeks ago as an amendment to a spending bill, but it may be introduced as a stand-alone measure in the Senate.

“The majority of Americans are opposed to using their tax dollars to fund abortions at home and abroad,” said Pence spokesman Matt Lloyd. “Therefore, Congressman Pence believes the majority of Americans will also agree that the nation’s largest abortion provider should not also be the largest recipient of federal funding under Title X.”