The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has until the end of this week to hand over 12 years' worth of documentation on how it's spent taxpayer money, as the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations calls for an accounting.
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., wrote PPFA on Sept. 15, detailing concerns about how the group spends federal grant money and how it reports sex crimes.
PPFA has an "extensive record of violating state sexual assault and child abuse reporting laws, and of encouraging young girls to lie about their ages," Stearns said in a statement.
This July, Americans United for Life (AUL) circulated a detailed report, titled "The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood," which it circulated on Capitol Hill.
"AUL for years has been calling for Planned Parenthood to give an accounting of their use and misuse of taxpayer dollars," said spokesperson Kristi Hamrick. "They receive $1 million a day in taxpayer funding. That's outrageous."
Not everyone is applauding, however: Yesterday, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Diana DeGette, D-Colo., accused Stearns of launching a "Republican vendetta" against PPFA "simply because Republicans disagree with the work that it does," and PPFA itself has a petition on its website urging advocates to demand Stearns call off the investigation.
Contact: Karla Dial
Source: CitizenLink
