SBA List President, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Call for De-Funding of Planned Parenthood, "Wal-Mart of big abortion"Washington - Yesterday Representatives Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) organized a special order on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to call for an end to federal taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
"The idea that Planned Parenthood cares one wit about reducing the 'need for abortion' is absurd," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "But even if this were a sincere claim on their part, they have failed miserably by their own measure. The number of abortions Planned Parenthood performs continually rises, this year reaching 290,000. It is past time to de-fund Planned Parenthood. It is time for a taxpayers' revolt."
Planned Parenthood is the nation's number one abortion provider, providing 290,000 abortions last year. Planned Parenthood provided nearly one in five abortions nationwide in 2005, the latest year nationwide abortion statistics are available.
In her testimony on the House floor, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) referenced a recent Wall Street Journal investigation highlighting Planned Parenthood's recent appeal to the affluent in her congressional district. The article cited opening of "express centers in wealthy Minnesota suburbs" with the purposes of appealing to women who are "already doing their grocery shopping, picking up their Starbucks, living their daily lives."
"They are big business. They are the Wal-Mart of big abortion," said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). "They are the big box retailer. It's time to end their tax exempt status. It's a fraud. It is time to stop the public financing of Planned Parenthood -- it is the right thing to do."
According to its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood posted total revenues of $1,017,900,000 - over one billion dollars. Nearly one third of that -- $336.7 million - came from "government grants and contracts." In 2007, the U.S. Congress under new Democratic Leadership approved a $17 million dollar increase in federal taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood through the Title X Program. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and the Susan B. Anthony List opposed the increase.
The Susan B. Anthony List is a nationwide network of Americans, over 146,000 residing in all 50 states, dedicated to mobilizing, advancing, and representing pro-life women in politics. Its connected Candidate Fund increases the percentage of pro-life women in the political process.
News Flash - Rock for Life has uploaded videos of the U. S. Representatives who today challenged the government funding of Planned Parenthood. Listen to NJ's Rep. Chris Smith:
"It's time for us to take a serious, and for some, a second look at Planned Parenthood, its origins, and the fact that since 1973, the year the US Supreme Court issued its famous Roe. v. Wade decision, and legalized abortion, that approximately 4.5 million babies, disproportionately African-American and hispanic, have died in Planned Parenthood clinics.""Planned Parenthood ought to be called 'Child Abuse Incorporated' for the 4.5 million children it has already killed"
"For Planned Parenthood, business is good. Violence against children pays handsomely." -- Rep. Chris Smith, New Jersey
You can see and hear them all at Rock for Life's YouTube page, which also offers a guided ultrasound tour of a baby developing toward birth.
One does not "provide" abortions. One purveys abortions. "Provide" implies a service or good. Abortion is neither.
PP is the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. but it also provides sex ed, disease screening, contraception, and prenatal care. In some places, it's the only org that does.
Who do you want to provide these services if not PP? The government?
I have to wonder what Susan Anthony would think of this list being named after her. Yes, she was anti-abortion, but that was because legal abortions were as dangerous then as illegal ones are now. She saw herself as protecting her fellow women from quacks.
For readers in California, please join the Coalition to Eliminate Abortion Funding from our state budget. See details at www.california4life.org. $33 million of our tax dollars are used each year to pay for 95,000 "free" abortions. That is 300 deaths each day, all paid for with our tax dollars! Please join the effort to re-direct these $33 million to truly help the needy, rather than used to destroy life and hurt women for a lifetime.
DRF, if you look at what SBA wrote about abortion, you'd see that her concern lied with the lives of the children being aborted. Check your facts next time.