The federal government, says one pro-life activist, is nothing more than a "cash cow" for the abortion-provider Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood received a banner $363.2 million in government funding during the 2008-2009 fiscal year, its most recent annual reporting period -- a $13.6-million increase in grants and contracts over the previous fiscal year. That funding is supposedly funneled into "reproductive health care" services and is not used directly for abortion procedures.
But Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics argues U.S. taxpayers should not be financing the organization to begin with. "The idea that we're giving these people approximately $42,000 an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year -- this is a cash cow for these people," he laments. "They're lined up at the federal trough."
In addition, says Crutcher, it is obscene from the standpoint that Planned Parenthood targets minorities for abortions, which he believes aligns with the racist, eugenics philosophy of the group's founder, Margaret Sanger. That, he says, is established in a Life Dynamics documentary Maafa 21.
According to Crutcher, information also has been surfacing of financial improprieties at Planned Parenthood.
"One recent study now is showing that there may be as much as a billion dollars that has been given to Planned Parenthood that's completely unaccounted for," he shares. "First thing they need to do is stop all funding to them...and then there needs to be a criminal investigation and a congressional investigation into them to see what's happened to all this money."
Crutcher notes that Planned Parenthood contends that a majority of Americans are pro-abortion. If indeed that is the case, says the activist, the organization ought to be raising its own funds rather than relying on the federal government for millions of taxpayer dollars.
Two Republican congressmen -- Chris Smith of New Jersey and Mike Pence of Indiana -- have voiced their intentions to introduce in this session of Congress legislation that would prohibit or cut off federal funding of abortion.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: January 4, 2011
