Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funded assault on the unborn must be stopped

The graphic footage released by the Center for Medical Progress showing Planned Parenthood executives--in their own words--discussing methods for harvesting organs from aborted babies and negotiating prices with tissue brokers has assaulted the senses of both the pro-life and pro-choice communities.
The casual and familiar nature of the conversations in these videos shocks the conscience. Their demeanor leads you to think grocery produce was under discussion, not infant body parts. The videos speak for themselves. These practices are abhorrent and inhumane and should not be funded by taxpayer dollars on any level.
Planned Parenthood executives insist the videos are unfairly edited and sensational. They hope the world will turn a blind eye, but these videos shine a long-overdue light into the dark world of abortion; a world America has condoned for over 42 years now.
Planned Parenthood receives over $520 million in taxpayer funding annually. Since Planned Parenthood does not decouple their family planning and abortion services and money is fungible, the presumption is these funds end up subsidizing abortion. On average, Planned Parenthood performs 898 abortions every day, 37 abortions every hour and 3 abortions every 5 minutes. That means every two minutes, Planned Parenthood stops a beating heart.
According to their own statistics for 2013 – the year in which they carried out 327,653 abortions – Planned Parenthood only provided 1,880 adoption referrals and 18,684 prenatal services. This means that in 2013, abortions made up 94.1% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services, while prenatal care and adoption referrals accounted for only 5.4% (18,684) and .5% (1,800), respectively. As America’s largest recipient of Title X funds, which are reserved for family planning and preventative health services, Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funded assault on the unborn must be stopped.

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