"Because of your efforts and support last week, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to stop the flow of tax dollars from going to scandal-plagued Planned Parenthood.
However, the fight is far from over. Planned Parenthood and its allies are flooding Congress with calls pressuring Members who voted to defund them. Planned Parenthood knows their pro-abortion allies in the Senate and in the White House support this abuse of taxpayer funds. Pro-life Members need to hear that you support their vote and that they should stand strong!
Here are some staggering facts:
- From 2008-2009 Planned Parenthood received $363 million, a third of their massive $1 billion income, in state and federal government grants and taxpayer money.
- During that same time they set their own record performing 324,000 abortions, up almost 25,000 from 2006-2007 figures.
- Each fiscal year since 2000-2001 the government has increased its funding of Planned Parenthood an average $22.2 million and each year the number of abortions they have performed has steadily increased, even as overall rates in the country have waned.
Enough is enough, Congress should support the effort to defund Planned Parenthood. The abortion giant just released a new fact sheet, admitting they performed a record number of 332,278 abortions in 2009.
Cutting funding to Planned Parenthood will not reduce government spending on family planning, nor will it prevent them from performing abortions. However, defunding Planned Parenthood will ensure that taxpayers are no longer forced to subsidize the largest abortion organization in the United States.
Please take some time today and thank Members who voted to defund them."
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