Late last month, Planned Parenthood received a $275 million donation from Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife Mackenzie Scott, the largest single donation the abortion business has ever received.
“This funding will support our efforts to advance health equity by eliminating racial and structural barriers for our patients in the communities where Planned Parenthood works,” president Alexis McGill Johnson said in a statement announcing the donation.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood continues to receive upwards of $600 million each year in federal funding, in the form of both Title X family planning funds and Medicaid reimbursements — not to mention the money its affiliates receive from Medicaid and public-health funding at the state level.
When pro-lifers attempt to remove any amount of public funding from Planned Parenthood, they are met with cries from the abortion lobby that doing so will render millions of women unable to access “essential health-care services.” Set aside for a moment the fact that Planned Parenthood focuses far more heavily on abortion than it does on any “essential health care” — surely given that the group receives so much support from private donors such as Ms. Scott, the government and U.S. taxpayers don’t need to be roped into underwriting abortion at all.