Government Funding and Abortion Income Help Planned Parenthood Make a Killing

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[chance33_98]

Government Funding and Abortion Income Help Planned Parenthood Make a Killing, According to Organization's Annual Report

12/17/03 1:05:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Joe Giganti of American Life League, 703-928-9695 or jgiganti@all.org

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "It's an outrage that our government has subsidized an abortion performing organization such as Planned Parenthood to the tune of more than $3 billion over the past four decades," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International. "Planned Parenthood's just-released 2002-2003 Annual Report shows that 33 percent of its income came from government grants and contracts totaling $254.4 million in the fiscal year ending in June 2003. That's a 5.6 percent increase from 2002. This government money helped Planned Parenthood haul in a $36.6 million profit in its last fiscal year."

Elected federal, state and local officials are responsible for the huge flow of tax money to Planned Parenthood. The largest portion comes from the federal government. Ed Szymkowiak, national director of American Life League's STOPP International said, "According to the latest Government Accounting Office report, Planned Parenthood received $60.9 million from Medicaid and $58.7 million from Title X of the Public Health Service Act in 2001. Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood increased by about 79 percent from 1997 to 2001, in part due to waivers granted by President Clinton. President Bush has continued granting such waivers. In 2002, he approved expanded Medicaid coverage waivers in Wisconsin and New York which will result in even more tax funding for condoms and sometimes-abortifacient contraceptive drugs and devices."

"This abuse of our tax dollars must stop," said Sedlak. "Let's not forget that while Planned Parenthood has been riding a tax- funded gravy train, it has reported performing more than 3.2 million abortions since 1977, including a record 227,375 in the most recent year. American Life League's STOPP International implores all elected officials to take immediate steps to end funding of Planned Parenthood. We also ask all Americans to echo that message to the president and their federal, state and local elected officials."

NOTE: The GAO report cited above maybe found online at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03527r.pdf

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American Life League's STOPP International is dedicated to fighting Planned Parenthood's anti-life agenda. ALL, with more than 375,000 supporting families, is the nation's largest pro-life educational organization.

[Coleus]

We must stop Title X funding and the many congressmen who vote for these types of appropriations.
Write your Member of Congress and your state Representatives who appropriate federal grants in your state.
http://www.crlp.org/pub_fac_titlex.html
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/library/FAMILYPLANNINGISSUES/TitleX_fact.html
http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp.html
http://www.region8familyplanning.org/titlexfacts.htm#whereservices http://www.region8familyplanning.org/titlexfacts.htm
http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/ib16.html
http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/3103999.html
http://www.crlp.org/pub_fac_titlex2.html
http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm

Stop Planned Parenthood.
http://www.all.org/stopp/plan.htm
http://www.all.org/stopp/
http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0209.pdf
http://www.all.org/stopp/plan2.htm

[John Beresford Tipton]

"This abuse of our tax dollars must stop,"
this sounds good, when read by itself.


But look at the figures in the release, and taking them as truthful:
Govt spent $3billion
abortions performed 3.2 milllion
Govt. therefore spent less than $935 each.

Now how many $10,000's each would the government otherwise been forced to pay in Medicaid, food stamps, ssi, welfare?

Now you can be against the govt paying for it, but it certainly is not an "abuse of our tax dollars", compared with the alternative outlays.

[MHGinTN]

You offered, "Now how many $10,000's each would the government otherwise been forced to pay in Medicaid, food stamps, ssi, welfare?" ... Your defense of serial killing as enlightened social policy is duly noted. Your 'King Herrod' thinking seems appropriate in this season, congrats for being timely if nothing else.

[MHGinTN]

Nice try, fellow ghoul.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - aka, MURDER, INC.

[Campion]

Let's fully deconstruct the argument.

Other poster: "Actually, we might save tax money through funding."

"Funding"? Funding ... what, exactly? Ah, the in utero killing of inconvenient and expensive human beings, that's what.

I don't know what the other poster's view of abortion is.

He thinks it's cheaper than the alternative, obviously.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"He thinks it's cheaper than the alternative, obviously"

And if you think that it is more expensive that the alternative please let us know.

[MHGinTN]

You are a limited intellect poster if you think your dissembling is fooling anyone ... I call abortionists 'serial killers' and have in no way called JBT a serial killer. You on the other hand ...

[MHGinTN]

Oh those useless eaters ...

[MHGinTN]

Why should I ... you asserted to answer it for me! What a Maroon!

[bt_dooftlook]

Hate to pile on, but the phrase used was "Your defense of a serial killer" not "You're a serial killer"...so maybe calling folks half-brained is out of line...

Arguing that we could save taxpayer money through abortion is ghoulish; we could save even more if we killed all convicts, but I'm not certain that you would argue that that _might_ justify killing all convicts...

Two problems with the argument you are supporting:
1. The implication that babies that are aborted would end up on welfare; and
2. The implication that the government is justified in spending tax dollars that are extracted under duress from taxpayers to support non-taxpayers...

Anyway, let's not bicker and argue over who killed who - Merry Christmas!

[Kuksool]

Amazing how some people, who advocate cutting government spending and abolishing certain government agencies, come out in favor of using tax payer dollars to enrich abortionists. Many of these people want to use government funded abortion to eliminate minorities out of existence.