Unsurprisingly, another Planned Parenthood executive has been apparently recorded haggling over the price of fetal parts and discussing changing abortion methods to protect the crop.
We should not be paying this vile organization one dime of taxpayer’s money, and in any administration but this one, an investigation would be launched to determine if any criminal laws have been violated.
In response to the defunding call, we will hear about all the good PP does providing women’s primary health care, contraception, sexualizing children, etc. Thus, we can’t defund because it will hurt poor women!
Of course, public funding enables abortion “crunchiness” because money is fungible.
There is a remedy: Planned Parenthood should be broken up into discrete pieces in the same way ATT was once dismembered. The new organization could be strictly prohibited from providing abortion services with a wall of separation between old and new with regard to finances, leadership, etc. That new entity would still be eligible for funding.
The existing organization could continue aborting without our dollars. I am sure it would be bounteously funded from those of a certain ideological persuasion.
I have suggested this before and it has been rejected by PP supporters out of hand. That’s because PP’s core mission–and true raison d’ etre–is abortion, not the other stuff. How else explain PP closing Texas abortion clinics rather than keep them open to provide primary care after abortion restrictions were put in place.
By the way, defunding would be very difficult. Obama will veto and shut down the government over the issue. The media will howl. Republicans shouldn’t start what they are not willing to finish.
Some even believe the group has a right to funding. Indeed, Indiana’s attempt to strip the group of Medicaid funding was overturned by a court.