Planned Parenthood funding is outrageous. Chairman Chaffetz released a memo
that outlines some of the outrages of the funding of Planned Parenthood just
from a fiscal responsibility standpoint.
A few highlights from the memo are below.
1. Planned Parenthood services are available elsewhere and
covered by Obamacare:
Obamacare makes federal funding for Planned Parenthood duplicative. Under Obamacare, individuals should be getting their health care via Medicaid or a Qualified Health Plan.
2. Planned Parenthood is wasting taxpayers’ money as it parties and traveling like kings. An example of the latter is:
Planned Parenthood spent
$5,109,997 on travel in 2013.19 That is nearly $14,000 a day on travel. . . Tax
returns show Planned Parenthood books first class or charter travel.
3. One of the reason
Planned Parenthood is so fervently defended by the Democrats is that Planned Parenthood
spends millions of dollars supporting liberal and Democrat political causes!
Over the past five years,
Planned Parenthood has given the Planned Parenthood Action Fund $21,567,629 in
grants. It has also given other
501(c)(4)s a total of $1,099,932.
While much of the outrage over Planned Parenthood has been
focused on the immoral and
possibly illegal activity of the videos, the fact of the matter is federal
funding of Planned Parenthood is an outrage in and of itself that needs to
stop.
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