{"id":33463,"date":"2018-05-20T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33463"},"modified":"2018-05-20T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:23:06","slug":"spending-money-where-it-is-needed-not-for-political-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33463","title":{"rendered":"Spending Money Where It Is Needed–Not For Political Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article today about ending the federal funding for abortion.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s action last week, barring Title X family planning funds from programs and facilities that perform abortions, is thus entirely right and reasonable. For all Planned Parenthood\u2019s gnashing of teeth, the only thing to suffer will be its own profits and the rewards of its senior executives. The public good and women\u2019s health will, at a minimum, remain completely unaffected and, depending on your perspective, will be improved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision will not reduce Title X funding at all. Rather, his policy guarantees that the limited funds available from that source will go to comprehensive community health centers all over America that provide health services Planned Parenthood doesn\u2019t offer. There are 20 such community health centers for every Planned Parenthood affiliate. Most provide services such as mammograms that Planned Parenthood doesn\u2019t offer. Most are also not so heavily involved and invested in partisan politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to opensecrets.org<\/a>, in the 2016 election cycle, Planned Parenthood (through its PAC) donated $671,048 to federal candidates (98% to Democrats, 1% to Republicans).<\/p>\n

According to the ACLJ<\/a> (American Center for Law and Justice):<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood just released their 2016\u20132017 annual report<\/a>. The findings are clear: over 320,000 abortions committed in the last year; over half a billion in government funding; nearly $100 million in profit (a staggering 27% increase over the prior year). Big Abortion is big business.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless of where you stand on protecting the unborn, abortion should not be a million dollar business.<\/p>\n

It is obvious from the above numbers that Planned Parenthood does not actually need federal money–they are making a substantial profit on their own and they are supporting political candidates.<\/p>\n

It has been my belief for a long time that entities that make political contributions should not be eligible for federal funds. This should include any political action committees (PACS) set up by those entities. This seems rather obvious to me, but evidently Congress has not yet figured it out (I guess Congress likes its donations from these entities). The idea of taking federal money and making political donations seems like money laundering to me.<\/p>\n

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