Tony Perkins Washington Update
Its been 1350 days since the Senate passed a budget but the checks to Planned Parenthood keep flowing! While American companies suffer business at Cecile Richardss group couldnt be better. According to the organizations latest annual report (FY 2011-12) it looks like the government helped Planned Parenthood to another record year.
For the second time in as many years Richardss nonprofit is celebrating more than a billion dollars in total revenue--and almost half of it came courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
Americas abortion provider managed to squeeze $542.4 million out of federal state and local governments last year--a $55 million bump from 2010. And judging by its $155 million profit the organization hardly needed the money! Still Congress insists on being Planned Parenthoods biggest benefactor--even if it means borrowing millions from China to pay for it.
The government chipped in the lions share of Richardss budget (45) last year and then raised taxes on us to keep the killing machine afloat. That should outrage every American regardless of how they feel about abortion. The President complains about tax breaks for millionaires--while he supports welfare for billionaire organizations!
Fox News crunched the numbers and was shocked to find that government support for Planned Parenthood had jumped by 167 in the last 10 years alone.
Of course as more states aggressively step in to defund Planned Parenthood the Left has been just as aggressive in filling the gap. They claim the money helps women but based on this report Planned Parenthood was too busy reelecting President Obama to help anyone! Cancer screenings (the theme of Richardss incessant election ads) dropped by a stunning 29 in 2011-12 and contraception services slumped 12. Of course the number of mammograms performed at Planned Parenthood stayed the same: zero.
While all of this vital medial care plunged the groups primary moneymaker-abortion--raked in more than ever. It was one of the bloodiest years in the organizations history as unborn casualties climbed to 333964--enough to fill Yankee stadium six and a half times. The loss of life represented a 4519 spike in abortions (almost twice the enrollment of Regent University).
In just three years Richardss group has claimed credit for 995687 deaths through abortion--and that doesnt include the handful of women lost to botched abortions in the last 12 months. Perhaps the biggest misnomer about the organization is this: most people arent planning parenthood when they visit these clinics; theyre planning abortions. That was obvious from the tiny sliver of adoption referrals from Richardss network: 2300--barely one half of one percent of the total abortions performed.
Meanwhile the organization credited their success to the generosity of several key donors and funders--which if Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) gets her way will no longer include the U.S. Congress. Her bill the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (H.R. 217) would pull the financial rug out of Planned Parenthood where its family planning dollars are concerned.
If successful the legislation she introduced Friday would zero out Title X money for any group that performs or refers for abortion. A nurse for more than 40 years Rep. Black knows a little something about health care--and abortion which hurts women and children isnt it. Planned Parenthoods blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars to fund its big abortion business is an attack on life and womens health she said in a statement. It must be stopped.
Now that the country has maxed out its credit cards the House is preparing to do battle over the debt ceiling. If Richardss group alone is blowing a half-billion dollar hole in our debt heres a suggestion for GOP leaders. Make defunding Planned Parenthood a condition of raising the federal borrowing limit. What do conservatives have to lose--except millions of future taxpayers if this madness doesnt stop?
