WHAT HEELS: Is Planned Parenthood The New ACORN?
In this Washington Times op-ed Rita Diller, national director of Stop Planned Parenthood, cites a new report from the Government Accountability Office that shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America spent $657.1 million of the $2.3 billion in grants it received from the federal government between 2002 and 2008:
The report (the first of its kind since 2002) was released in response to a request from 31 U.S. senators and representatives and in an atmosphere increasingly hostile to abortion. Not surprisingly. then, its findings are fueling an escalating outcry to defund Planned Parenthood. …
Has Planned Parenthood managed to tuck away megamillions of our tax dollars, seemingly unnoticed? Or is that much of its government funding coming from sources other than the federal government? Or is there a problem with the way Planned Parenthood is reporting its expenditure of our federal monies?
Noting that “at least five nationwide polls” over the past 18 months show that most Americans consider themselves pro-life, Diller demands that “[s]omeone … needs to explain to all those people why $2.3 billion in tax dollars have been doled out to an organization that admits to systematically having killed more than 1.8 million pre-born babies between 2002 and 2008.”
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