Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Business Loses More Funding
For years, we have been warning Planned Parenthood that its abortion-based business model would eventually threaten its funding from the federal government and other sources. In yet another victory for pre-born life and further proof that our warnings were correct, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has announced that they will no longer provide funding for Planned Parenthood. This decision should be applauded, as it properly puts action behind the Komen Foundation’s promise to focus its efforts on ending breast cancer.
According to Planned Parenthood, they received approximately $680,000 from the Komen Foundation last year. Planned Parenthood has predictably responded that losing these funds will cause thousands of women to lose access to breast cancer screening. Of course, this could not be further from the truth. To the contrary, these grant funds will now go to other cancer screening providers who are better focused on preventing breast cancer and not distracted by subsidizing more than 300,000 abortions every year. The truth is that these funds will now go further towards the goal of ending breast cancer, and will provide services to even more women.
Further, it is worth noting that Planned Parenthood also claims that none of the $487.4 million it receives from taxpayers funds abortion. It would appear that Planned Parenthood is running out of funding to which it can attribute the roughly 330,000 abortions it performs every year. The truth, of course, is that money is fungible and that all of its revenue is supporting the abortion-based business model that Planned Parenthood has put in place. It is just one more reason to celebrate the Komen Foundation’s decision to withdraw its grant funding.
It is always important to recognize these victories for the pre-born when they occur. Your voice makes a difference in these life-and-death struggles. We at the ACLJ thank all of you for continuing to stand for life.
2.2.2012 Update: In the 24-hour period following the announcement that the Susan G. Komen Foundation would pull its grant funding from Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant announced that it had experienced a $400,000 spike in donations from approximately 6,000 donors. While I cannot imagine devoting any of my personal charitable contributions to Planned Parenthood, this news just further begs the question: “If Planned Parenthood is capable of raising $400,000 from its private donor network in a single day, why do taxpayers continue to be burdened with nearly half a billion dollars annually in funding?” As this country continues to go further and further into deficit spending, it is unconscionable – both morally and fiscally – for taxpayers to be called upon to prop up this billion dollar abortion operation. The time to end this funding is now.