Posted on 12/14/2016 6:55:26 PM PST by Morgana
Don’t pay your taxes if Congress defunds Planned Parenthood, feminist and abortion activist Gloria Steinem told a women’s group on Thursday.
Reuters reports Steinem said she is worried about the future of abortion because of in-coming President Donald Trump. Trump promised to sign a bill to defund Planned Parenthood as long as it continues to do abortions and to appoint pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Steinem said abortion activists should consider tax resistance if Congress defunds the abortion chain of its half a billion in taxpayer dollars.
“In this case, we can say ‘I’m sending the part of my income tax that should go to Planned Parenthood, I’m sending it directly to Planned Parenthood. Come and get me,’” she said during a panel discussion hosted by Donor Direct Action, of which Steinem is a founder.
The report continued:
Steinem said she is heartened by a renewed energy among women’s rights advocates since the Nov. 8 presidential election, such as a planned women’s march on Washington on Jan. 21, the day after Trump takes office.
“What I see in the streets and online and in all kinds of ways is that people are taking power unto themselves,” she said.
“There are a lot more of us than there are of him.”
Whether the pro-abortion activists will match the crowd of pro-life individuals who attend the March for Life a few days later seems doubtful. The peaceful, pro-life march typically brings hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers to the streets of D.C. in January, to march for the rights of unborn babies.
Historically, abortion activists have not had been able to match the strong, grassroots support of pro-lifers. Back in 2010, pro-abortion leader Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL, expressed concern after seeing the huge crowds at the March for Life.
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“There are so many of them, and they are so young,” Keenan said at the time.
Though Planned Parenthood is reporting a huge number of donations in response to the recent election, it’s questionable if it has enough grassroots support to continue its massive abortion operation without taxpayer funding. Its CEO alone makes close to $1 million. And abortion groups own polls indicate that young, pro-abortion individuals are not as enthusiastic or active in the cause as young pro-lifers.
Meanwhile, pro-life pregnancy centers – some largely and many solely funded by private donations – are expanding, offering pregnant and parenting women resources and encouragement to help them choose life for their babies.
what if we shut it down? :)
I hope she likes prison food.
Let her get arrested like any other scofflaw.
So, she’s volunteering for prison. Good.
Maybe she can share a cell with Al Sharpton.
How many of those half-billion dollars work their way to the DNC coffers?
collie with al sharptongue
If welfare stays funded can i stop my taxes in protest too?
Good - I’d love nothing more than seeing this bitch behind bars.
Ya .... so ?
Sic’ing the IRS on ‘Rats would be a fun turnaround for a couple of years.
LOCK HER ASS UP_ WITH hILLARY!!
Good she can go to jail.
This is just too easy... we’ll see how well her sanctimoniousness works as a shield.
and remember the liberal responses to conservatives who said this over funding abortion and illegals and other things they didn’t like?
cool, fine her, and take her assets, as it helps to build the wall.
good luck, Gloria
ha ha
Maybe she will move to Germany. Become an opponent of migrant rape culture!
Good Grief! Is that worn out old hag still around?
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