Planned Parenthood Must be Defunded from Receiving Federal Tax Dollars

Washington, D.C. – Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to do so. A new Planned Parenthood promotional Web site (www.takecaredownthere.org), which targets youth and is called "Take Care Down There," features short "public service" video vignettes which, among other things, promote casual sex, immodesty, homosexuality and even group sex. For example, one video on this new Web site depicts what appears to be an African-American male teenager relegated to performing oral sex on a white male teenager while another white male (an adult authority figure in a suit) stands nearby giving instructions. It is too shameful for a press release to print what one of the teenagers says on the Planned Parenthood video.

Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, signed an October 27, 2007, pro-family coalition letter calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, after revelations of the abortion group’s alleged systematic violation of Kansas state law came to light. Senator Vitter (R-LA) and Representative Pence (R-IN) have both introduced legislation that would prevent abortion providers from receiving money from the federal government.

Planned Parenthood has been receiving federal funding under the Title X Family Planning Program, enacted in 1970 as Title X of the Public Health Services Act. Section 1008 of the Act, as amended, stipulates that “None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning,” yet Planned Parenthood is nevertheless receiving funds under this federal program. During the 2006-2007 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received a total of $336.7 million from government grants and contracts. In 2008, $300 million was given to family planning clinics, under the Title X program. These funds were used to service over five million people, a third of which received “care” from a Planned Parenthood clinic. This new Planned Parenthood Web site has again raised the necessity to put an end to the federal government’s funding of Planned Parenthood.

Commenting on Planned Parenthood’s Web site and video displays, Mathew Staver said: "Planned Parenthood has now given the federal government yet another reason to stop funding this racist, eugenic, and immoral organization. Why should hardworking Americans pay to support Planned Parenthood's profiteering sex agenda that encourages teenage sex on the one hand and then profits by aborting the consequences of such promiscuity on the other hand? Planned Parenthood's Web site is offensive and, frankly, shocks the conscience. It is insane that we allow our tax dollars to fund such an irresponsible and destructive organization. We must stop funding Planned Parenthood and we must stop now!"