Obama’s crusade to keep Planned Parenthood fat and happy … next on the American Life
League Report.
The national campaign to defund Planned Parenthood is making real progress … and now Obama
is so desperate he’ll veto any budget to reach his desk which denies funding to Planned
Parenthood. In fact, the Obama administration threatened to deny federal money to the poor
and uninsured in Kansas, Indiana, and New Hampshire if those states denied funding to
Planned Parenthood. And Obama’s not working alone. He and other Planned Parenthood-backed
politicians in the House and the Senate pledged to vote against any bill that would deny funds
to Planned Parenthood even if it meant disrupting Medicare and Medicaid health services to elderly
and poor nationwide. [Reporter] President Obama apparently drew
a line in the sand with the Speaker, saying he would not accept reductions in family-planning,
and said Republicans really have to give on this issue or be prepared to shut the government
down.
[Sen. Reid] The number that was given to us by the Speaker was agreed upon. The only thing
left standing was Planned Parenthood.
[Rep. Speier] We are sitting here today about to shut down the government over contraceptive
pills, because that is what it’s all about. It’s all about defunding one organization
– Planned Parenthood.
Here’s the smokescreen. Obama and his pro-abortion coalition repeatedly accuse pro-life supporters
of trying to withhold services from the poor while they themselves threaten to shut the
whole government down if Planned Parenthood’s funding is cut so NO ONE gets health care.
This distracts taxpayers from the reality that Planned Parenthood takes money from clinics
that don’t commit abortions but often provide broader health services than Planned Parenthood.
Here’s an example: New Hampshire has five Planned Parenthood locations that received
funding for family planning under what is called Title Ten. But there are twenty other
Title Ten qualified clinics all over New Hampshire that provide the same services or more than
Planned Parenthood … they just don’t do abortions. So then why does Obama threaten
to sever funding to all New Hampshire providers [tire screech] [horn] if Planned Parenthood
doesn’t get its cut. Isn’t it supposed to be about birth control, health care, and
uninsured women? It isn’t.
Those twenty clinics don’t do what Planned Parenthood does …
lobby Congress and put politicians in office.
Planned Parenthood is a national political machine that promotes open access to its key
revenue source: abortion. As long as Planned Parenthood continues to get state and federal
tax subsidies of over $360 million, it’ll spend millions to help keep the politicians
who vote for that funding in office.
The House of Representatives … for the first time ever … passed a budget that moved federal
funding for Planned Parenthood to thousands of other non-abortion health care providers.
These are a few of the dozens of politicians who used their political power to crush the
bill and make sure Planned Parenthood still got paid.
Barack Obama is only the second candidate for the presidency to receive the full endorsement
and help of Planned Parenthood’s political machine.
Planned Parenthood used its influence in Minnesota to elect Al Franken.
And look at this … The political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
got Richard Blumenthal elected. Planned Parenthood mobilized one million people
to get Kay Hagen and Jeanne Shaheen elected. In Oregon in 2008, 36 of the 42 candidates
endorsed by Planned Parenthood won their elections. In 2006 the Planned Parenthood Action fund
of Santa Barbara, California claimed victory in the election of five candidates, including
Representative Lois Capps.
This is just a small sampling of the candidates Planned Parenthood has propelled to office
to protect its abortion and radical sexual education revenues. These candidates have
Planned Parenthood’s back at the cost of our own. But the game is up. If we defund
Planned Parenthood, we protect preborn babies and their mothers, and wreck the political
machine that keeps these pro-abortion politicians in office.
For American Life League, I'm Michael Hichborn.