The Hyde Amendment states that federal tax dollars cannot be used to perform abortions. You can read the specifics of the amendment here.
Planned Parenthood does a ballpark of 300,000 – 350,000 abortions per year and around 45% of their revenue–$540.6 million–is provided by federal tax dollars.
This is a classic “6 one way, half-a-dozen the other” example. What would happen to your organization if it lost 45% of its revenue?
It would close. (Or you’d need to find some very rich friends)
And the ~325,000 widgets you made each year would stop being made.
You can say that federal funding is not going toward abortions (the Hyde Amendment), but when the largest provider of abortions in the country can stay open directly because of federal funding, is there any difference?
The federal funding can go toward essential overhead like building expenses and staff salaries, while in-house money can then be moved over to cover the cost of the abortions, something that wouldn’t be possible if the in-house money had to cover everything. (Or how abortions can sometimes be offered for free)
And yes, Planned Parenthood provides some great women’s health services, often times to the needy and under-served. Services such as pap smears, cancer screenings and the provision of birth control.
These services should continue to be paid for with federal funds! (in my opinion, and I think many would agree with me)
But not in conjunction with abortions.
How did these two things become grouped together as the same?
As it is now, Hyde Amendment or not, your tax dollars and mine are keeping Planned Parenthood open and thriving, allowing them to continue to churn out 300,000+ abortions per year. That’s enough corpses to fill (the United States’ largest stadium) the University of Michigan’s “Big House” stadium 3 times! All provided for by tax dollars from the land of the free and the home of the brave. Whether faith-motivated, morality-motivated or simply democracy and citizenship-motivated, this is not how our tax dollars should be spent and for the sake of the integrity of our country, needs to stop.
#ProtestPP
#DefundPlannedParenthood
(This is a follow-up to a more comprehensive post I did on the August 22nd nation-wide Planned Parenthood protests)
Sources:
(quoted from “Top 12 Reasons to Defund Planned Parenthood” by Susan B. Anthony List)
Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider. “Roughly one out of every four abortions in America” is carried out in a Planned Parenthood facility. [iv] Data shows that since 1970, Planned Parenthood has performed more than 6 million abortions. [v] In 2013 alone, Planned Parenthood performed a record 357,653 abortions.[vi]
(quoted from csnnews.com)
according to (Planned Parenthood’s) Annual Report 2012-2013, about 45% of that revenue–$540.6 million–was provided by taxpayer-funded government health services grants.
In the same report, Planned Parenthood said that in the year that ended on Sept. 30, 2012 it did 327,166 abortions.
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This is so misleading! PPstays open because federal funds – often through Medicaid – pay for the other services that PP provides to poor women. The percent of federal funds is likely proportional to the Medicaid funded services that it provides. Without those federal funds, it would not be able to continue to provide those other health care services, and yes would likely have to close down – leaving women who rely on those services without access, thereby limiting choice. There are a variety of reasons why women choose to go to PP for those services – location, flexible hours, providers that deliver services without blame or judgement. To simply say they could go elsewhere is not for you to decide. Also, abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood are not free! If a woman does not have to pay, or pays a reduced amount, it is likely because they have received other private support or donations (sometimes from an abortion fund like the one I am proud to serve on the Board of…) to help pay for the procedure.
You are entitled to your opinion, but when you misrepresent the facts to prove your point that is wrong.