Posted on 11/15/2016 7:15:28 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Planned Parenthood Gets $500 Million in Tax Money, Spent $38 Million on Hillary Clinton’s Losing Campaign
Political observers and commentators are devoting unparalleled attention to the astonishing results of last Tuesday’s national election.
Many reporters and political analysts are cataloguing their list of those who emerged as winners and losers as a result of the results of November 8th.
What is unmistakable is that one of the biggest losers was the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its nationwide chain of abortion clinics.
Political affiliates of Planned Parenthood spent approximately $38 million in efforts to elect Hillary Clinton President and pro-abortion candidates to the U.S. Congress.
SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately
Clinton has been an unthrottled cheerleader for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. She and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards have been more than kindred spirits. Had Clinton won, Planned Parenthood would have owned the Oval Office.
Hillary Clinton’s rabid pro-abortion views have been known for quite some time. The extreme nature of those views was on ugly display during the third presidential debate when she heartlessly defended the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion.
With the election of Donald Trump, the real prospect exists that Congress will pass legislation or appropriations bills defunding Planned Parenthood. The abortion giant receives approximately $500 million a year in taxpayer funding, which is estimated to comprise as much as 40% of its annual budget.
While Trump was quoted during the campaign as saying that Planned Parenthood does “many good things,” he has been adamant that he opposes federal funds being allocated to the organization so long as it continues performing abortions.
President-elect Trump’s website states that his new administration will work to “protect innocent human life from conception to natural death” and “protect individual conscience in health care.”
Trump can deliver on this pledge in short order on a number of subjects. First of all, it is hoped that any replacement to Obamacare will put an end to federal taxpayer subsidies of health insurance plans that include abortion coverage.
It is also hoped that the new Secretary of Health and Human Services will abolish the contraceptive and abortion drug mandate, which required that all health insurance policies include no-cost coverage of abortifacient drugs and devices.
Trump has also pledged to sign legislation banning late-term abortions. Known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, it would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
While it will be an uphill battle to win passage of the bill in the Senate and it would have an uncertain fate before the Supreme Court, it will nonetheless be most helpful to have a favorable pen in the Oval Office on this and other pro-life priorities.
Trump’s most lasting contribution to the pro-life cause will be his appointment(s) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump is the first presidential candidate in American history to forthrightly declare that he will appoint “pro-life judges” to the High Court.
In similar unprecedented fashion, Trump has released two lists of potential nominees, all of whom would be expected to decide cases based on a strict construction of the original meaning of the Constitution.
First up will be the selection of a replacement for deceased Justice Antonin Scalia. Even if Trump is successful in appointing a conservative justice to replace him, the High Court would still be split between four liberals, four conservatives, and one moderate swing vote in disgraced Justice Anthony Kennedy.
However, if one of the liberal justices on the Court were to retire or die while still serving, Trump would have the opportunity to appoint a fifth conservative justice. That could lead to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and the return of abortion jurisdiction to the states.
Please be praying that a President Trump will be an instrument for legislative and judicial actions which will protect preborn children and all those who are vulnerable to anti-life forces in our culture.
PP is part of the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Shut it down.
I wonder if Hillary is taking their phone calls now.
Probably not much to talk about, beyond “we want our money back.”
So much for the laws prohibiting taxpayer-funded organizations from involvement in political activities.
These arrangements are classic money-laundering operations that would make the Mob jealous. Public tax dollars are diverted - via legislation - to Planned Parenthood. PPA then takes a decent sized chunk of that money and “supports” leftist political candidates. Thus and therefore, US taxpayers’ money is unwittingly going on to support leftist political candidates and causes! Tony Soprano is taking notes!!
Similar $$ laundering schemes exist at the public unions, where taxpayer dollars support the unions, whose leadership in turn diverts a good portion of that $$ to support leftist political candidates and causes. Once again, American taxpayers’ hard-earned money is flowing into the coffers of the political Left!
But, but the funds from taxpayers are not fungible!
It’s a no-brainer. Shut it down. No federal money. What are they going to do, riot and say ridiculous hyperbolic things? Who cares! They are doing that already. Planned murderhood is a DNC/leftist 1% racket killing babies, selling their parts and undermining the soul of United States.
Add the”education” racket to your list.
President Trump needs to emphasize this in his first State of The Union Address.
No more CRs.
Ryan will send them another $500 million this year.
Pray America woke
They may have to sell more body parts this coming year and increase the price of abortions..er..”reproductive health”.
It is ridiculous that any company that does not supply a good or service to the US Government depends on the federal government for 40% of its annual budget.
I don’t care what the company does if it can not exist without government funding it should not be in business.
Yeah, 38 million OF OUR MONEY - going to hitlery!!! How DARE they!
More in-your-face clinton/obama corruption.
How much of the trillion dollar stimulus went to connected liberal interest groups who then funneled money back to the Democrats? How many years of elections did they secretly fund?
Planned Parenthood is not alone. How many billions of taxpayer dollars were sent to activist organizations in an attempt to influence the election?
The over-the-counter abortion pill is going to cut into PPs profits at some point as women engage in self-infanticide and homemade miscarriages.
Backalley abortions, but street legal all the same. So minors can get it done cheaply without involving their parents or the law to prosecute adults who knock up teenagers.
In addition to all the other reasons we shouldn’t be supporting Planned Parenthood, they reported a profit of a billion dollars last year, but the taxpayers gave them half a billion. so even without that money, they made half a billion.
IOW, they don’t even need the money.
There is absolutely no reason why Planned Parenthood has to continue at this point.
Women need health services and that should come from real doctors.
PP should be made to pay it back. I could use a tax break.
I thought they were a c3105 charity...And as such, they aren’t allowed political activity....
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