I have never figured out how they got federal funding in the first place. I have looked but haven’t found anything. Perhaps someone can help lighten me. Thanks in advance.
I have never figured out how they got federal funding in the first place. I have looked but haven’t found anything. Perhaps someone can help lighten me.
It took a some digging, but I found this...
Gov’t Funding of Planned Parenthood: A Dark History
...As of today, the abortion giant continues to receive half a billion dollars in federal taxpayer money each year.
The use of federal taxpayer dollars to fund the abortion industry has a long history in the United States stretching back nearly four decades, to the presidency of Richard Nixon, a strong proponent of population control.
Concerned by the threat of overpopulation, Nixon issued a statement in 1969 proposing the creation of a Commission on Population Growth. He wrote, “When future generations evaluate the record of our time, one of the most important factors in their judgment will be the way in which we responded to population growth.”
In the statement, Nixon warned of the global threat to humankind if population were allowed to grow unchecked, and he offered a number of common myths about the dire consequences that would result if nations failed to stem population growth. He pledged America’s full support of the United Nations in its efforts at population control around the world.
He also proposed federal funding of contraception. “I believe, therefore, that we should establish as a national goal the provision of adequate family planning services within the next five years to all those who want them but cannot afford them. This we have the capacity to do.”
Thus was born Title X — the nation’s only federal grant program devoted to promoting contraception.
Then-U.S. Representative George H.W. Bush — who would later go on to become the 41st president of the United States — was chief sponsor of the Title X bill. “We need to make population and family planning household words,” said Bush. “We need to take sensationalism out of this topic .... . If family planning is anything, it is a public health matter.”....
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/govt-funding-of-abortion-a-long-history