Posted on 03/27/2015 7:56:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office found that America's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, received at least $1.5 billion in state and federal funding in a three-year span from 2010-2012.
The investigation additionally found that the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and five other pro-abortion advocacy companies— Advocates for Youth, Guttmacher Institute, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Population Council, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States – spent a combined total of nearly $482 million in direct federal funding received from Health and Human Services and United States Agency of International Development during that time.
The report, which was compiled after a group of over 60 pro-life Congress members led by U.S. Reps. Diane Black, R-Tenn., Chris Smith, R-N.J. and Pete Olson, R-Texas, sent a letter to GAO in February of 2013 asking for data on the how much federal funding was expended by six major organizations who advocate and or perform elective abortion-on-demand from 2010-2012.
Planned Parenthood spent most of the $482 million provided by HHS and USAID to the six groups, spending over $344 million of it. Additionally, Planned Parenthood received over $1.2 billion from combined state and federal funds from State Children's Health Insurance Program, Medicare and Medicaid.
"The Obama Administration is committed to advancing a pro-abortion agenda and continually has placed the demands of abortion advocates and providers at the top of its public health agenda for six years [and] all the expenses [are] the taxpayers," said the director of Family Research Council's Center for Human Dignity, Arina Grossu, in a press release.
Although Planned Parenthood gets about $500 million in taxpayer dollars every year and offers other services, abortions accounted for 94 percent of the company's pregnancy services in 2013.
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Taxpayers are being forced to pay for abortions.
How much of that money does Planned Parenthood turn-around and donate back into the campaigns of their political supporters? Is this legalized money laundering? (A way for pols to take taxpayer money for their own use with PP as their unholy middle-man.)
Garbage like this sometimes happens even when you vote...IT ALWAS HAPPENS when you don’t vote.
I guess it’d be too much to ask where Congress gets the authority to GIVE TAXPAYER $$ to ANY biz/institution?
Something about a dead white guy and one of his fingers??
Murder Inc. is in fat city why be a mob member when you can scam a gig like that.
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