Information Alert: Planned Parenthood Attacks McDonnell
At our Gala Monday evening, the largest applause line of my address to the crowd came when I said that pro-family Virginians expect that the next Governor of Virginia will submit a budget that ends the taxpayer subsidizing of Planned Parenthood. In a radio interview the next day on the Laura Ingraham Show, Republican candidate for Governor Bob McDonnell stated that he would do just that.
Today, Planned Parenthood is going berserk over McDonnell’s comments, despite the fact that TheWashington Post today claims that Planned Parenthood didn’t receive any taxpayer money in this year’s budget. For several years The Family Foundation has worked with other pro-life organizations to end the taxpayer subsidizing of Planned Parenthood, often finding it difficult to uncover how much money they receive or through what agency or program.
While Planned Parenthood alleges that the money they receive is used for “women’s health care,” the fact is that this is a $1 billion a year organization that provides more than one-quarter of all abortions performed in the nation, with roughly one-third of its income coming from taxpayers.
Oddly, for an organization that claims to be about “health care,” it is run by a hard-core partisan Democrat, Cecile Richards, the daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards and former chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The truth is, it is nothing more than a partisan organization that uses its taxpayer funding to bludgeon pro-life candidates across the country and to promote abortion on demand. This year, Planned Parenthood endorsed McDonnell’s opponent, Creigh Deeds, who supports taxpayer funding of that organization (they actually endorsed all three Democrat statewide candidates).
The fact is that, regardless of their position on abortion, most Virginians do not like the idea of their tax dollars being used to pay for abortions and by extension, organizations that perform them. Planned Parenthood has plenty of its own money; it doesn’t need any from the taxpayers.
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