In a letter sent to supporters by e-mail on the day after Republicans were swept in as the new majority in the House of Representatives and gained seats in the Senate, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards used the election results to press for an “emergency donation” to help fight against “dangerous politicians who oppose women's health and the right to choose.”
“Even before yesterday's election, women's health was under attack,” Richards wrote in the e-mail, which was sent on Nov. 3. “Anti-choice Republicans like Congressman Mike Pence from Indiana have introduced legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.”
“That's the frightening reality we face, and it's only going to get worse,” Richards wrote.
According to the last annual report made public by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for Fiscal Year 2007-2008, the organization received $349.6 million in government grants and contracts.
Pence (R-Ind.) was one of 31 Republicans who ordered a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) seeking the total amount of federal funding used by Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups, including the Guttmacher Institute, the Population Council, Advocates for Youth, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).
The GAO report, released in May, states that the combined total in federal dollars spent by those organizations from FY 2002-2009 was $967.1 million – $657.1 million of that is listed as expenditures of federal funds for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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7 comments:
Planned Parenthood is a vital part of the community. They help when no one else will or can whether you can pay or not. They are not "pro abortion" they are Pro Choice. They give a young woman options including abstinence to avoid unwanted pregnancy and disease prevention. I, myself, used the services of this organization back about 35 years ago as a teen. Even though I was "of age" I didn't have the resources to go the GYN. Maybe if more young people used this organization there wouldn't be so many people needing public assistance & medicaid.
Provide service but cut "on demand" abortion. Why don't people seem to grasp the common sense middleground that would allow women to have abortions when they baby threatens their life, is likely to be severly disabled, or in cases of rape/incest but protect the life of babies inside of women/teens who feel they "just aren't ready"?
You bleeding heart liberals need to research Margaret Sanger and the purpose of Planned Parenthood. Really think about the percentage of the black population that is exterminated by abortion.
Anon 12:38. Bleeding heart liberal, really??? No percentage of the black population is being exterminated by abortion. It's the black girls who are unwilling keep their legs closed or use contraception that's doing the exterminating. Pro Choice also means the choice to say NO!!!!!
Many low income people use Planned Parenthood for GYN visits as well as to obtain birth control meds.
It's amazing, the 'intellectualizing' that goes on to try to rationalize murdering an unwanted baby.
Doing it for any reason is wrong.
There is no 'common sense' middle ground.
Using tax money to fund it makes it even worse.
"Maybe if more young people used this organization there wouldn't be so many people needing public assistance & medicaid."
Maybe if people still had some morals and weren't so obsessed with sex there wouldn't be so many people needing public assistance and medicaid.
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