On Wednesday, seven former employees of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) sent a letter offering their help to a congressional committee investigating the organization for misuse of federal funds and other crimes.
In September, Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns sent a sharply worded letter to PPFA President Cecile Richards, demanding documentation of how the group makes sure the $1 million a day it receives in federal funds, which by law cannot be used to support abortion, are not commingled with unrestricted funding from other sources, as well as how employees go about detecting and reporting sexual crimes against women, such as trafficking, coercion and statutory rape.
The seven former officers and employees, formerly associated with clinics from Massachusetts to California, said they had personal experience with and knowledge of PPFA breaking federal laws concerning all those issues.
"We are of one mind that the extent of these problems with the organization is not fully understood by the American people, who are underwriting the growth of Planned Parenthood and its potent outreach to the young and the poor," they wrote. "The decision by the Energy and Commerce Committee to delve into the extent of these issues is long overdue, and it will provide and appropriate check and balance on an entity that, as we can personally attest, has operated as a law unto itself, gladly accepting tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer support while using the rubric of 'reproductive rights' to claim exemption from the normal standards of accountability that every other recipient of public funds is expected to meet."
Contact: Karla Dial
Source: CitizenLink
