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Posted on 07/19/2008 11:58:41 AM PDT by wagglebee
A Minnesota conservative is calling for an end to the tax-exempt status and public financing of the country’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
According to Planned Parenthood's latest annual report, the organization received more than $1 billion from revenues -- nearly one-third of that figure came from "government grants and contracts." In light of that report, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) became outraged when she learned of Planned Parenthood's new branding effort in her Minnesota district. She says the new strategy is a move away from helping poor women with family planning, and instead involves targeting latte-drinking, affluent women across America. But Bachmann claims Planned Parenthood has always been about big business.
“When Planned Parenthood brings in over a billion dollars in revenues, pays no taxes, and sits at the end of the year fat and happy with $115 million in the bank and brazenly works to go after affluent women rather than helping out poor women, as their original mission statement said, I agree with the executive director of Illinois Planned Parenthood, who said 'Planned Parenthood wants to be the LensCrafters of family planning,'" said Bachmann. "In other words," she notes, "they want to be the big-box retailer."
Bachmann was one of several Republican lawmakers who denounced the abortion provider during a recent one-hour pro-life Special Order on the House floor called by Congressman Chris Smith (R-New Jersey). "We didn't have one Democrat come to the floor and call on Planned Parenthood to either live up to their non-profit status or renounce that status, be truthful with the American people, and start paying taxes and not be eligible for any more taxpayer subsidies," she argues. "As a matter of fact, in Houston, Planned Parenthood announced that they will be building a 75,000-square-foot building. How could that be possible -- a 75,000-square-foot building?" Bachmann questions.
She states that, as a former tax lawyer, it has become clear to her that Planned Parenthood no longer fits the mold of a 501(c)3 non-profit and should be paying taxes. And Bachmann questions whether Planned Parenthood really uses public funds to help its efforts for "voter identification and community education" on family-planning issues.
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Hey murdering people for profit is big business y’know?
Let’s coin a new term......hmmmmm we’ll call it “Murderers R US”. kinda like “big Oil”, “big tobacco” /S
Yep, when is Congress going to hold hearings into why “Big Abortion” has made such excessive profits?
It seems PP is forgetting its original mission-to provide eugenics services to weed out the poor blacks and "mental defectives" from a Fascist Utopia.
DEFUND Planned Parenthood now! Why should God-fearing Americans work hard at their jobs to pay taxes to support the murder of the innocent? God bless Congresswoman Bachmann for taking on this immoral giant.
They should pay 35 years of back taxes, or be RICOed, but neither will happen, unfortunately.
Margaret Sanger intentionally placed her "clinics" in the inner city to target African Americans.
When I think of all the innocent lives sacrificed at the altar of genocide and bigotry it makes me sick.
That’s my congresswoman. Damn, am I proud of her.
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“As a matter of fact, in Houston, Planned Parenthood announced that they will be building a 75,000-square-foot building. How could that be possible — a 75,000-square-foot building?” Bachmann questions.
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If you don’t spend the money on buildings or salaries then you will show an even bigger profit than you already have and you could put yourself in jeopardy of losing gov’t grants and contracts.
Pray that these killing houses get closed or in this case, not even built.
Prayers will work!
Defund Planned Parenthood!
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