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Memo for the Movement

End Taxpayer Subsidies to Planned Parenthood
July 30, 2015
Washington, DC

Its time to stop the flow of tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, once and for all.
Leaders in Congress and [five] states have rightly begun investigations into allegations that
Planned Parenthood affiliates may be illegally harvesting and selling body parts from aborted
unborn children. We applaud these leaders for this necessary and appropriate response to the
shocking and disturbing undercover video released in recent weeks showing Planned Parenthood
executives describing in grisly detail how they procure and sell tiny hearts, livers, and lungs.
Its clear from the video alone that probable cause exists that the organization which receives
over half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding each year has violated state and federal law. The
investigations in Congress and numerous states will bring the truth to light and hopefully lead to
any necessary prosecution.
But investigations cannot be the last step. National leaders in Congress and in state legislatures
across the country must act to end taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood.
In the fiscal year 2013, Planned Parenthood received more than $528 million in taxpayer
funding, in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements 46% of
their total budget. That same year, the ostensible non-profit reported more than $127 million in
excess revenue, and had more than $1.4 billion in net assets. Over the past seven reporting years,
Planned Parenthood has increasingly performed more abortions over 300,000 every year
while decreasing provision of other preventative services like cancer screenings.
Our government should use American tax dollars responsibly and for the common good. No
matter what one thinks of abortion, American taxpayers deserve lawmakers who wont funnel
their hard-earned dollars to groups that are abusing it. Planned Parenthood is in business not to
help women, but to build an abortion monopoly that benefits its executives and the politicians
who keep the dollars flowing, even if it means trafficking human body parts and covering up
suspected criminal acts. Planned Parenthood should be held accountable by the same standards
as every other corporation or organization. No American should be forced to participate in
Planned Parenthoods corruption.
We ask those who have the prosecutorial and purse power to do the right thing end public
funding of the abortion giant and pursue the legal avenues that should have been explored long

ago. Even as investigations proceed, there should be an immediate termination of taxpayer

funding of Planned Parenthood.
We stand united in asking every member of Congress and every state and local government
official who supplies Planned Parenthood with taxpayer funding to cease that funding
immediately. Not one more penny from one more Americans paycheck should go to Planned
Parenthood.

BACKGROUND:
On July 14, the Center for Medical Progress released a video documenting a top Planned
Parenthood executive nonchalantly chewing on a salad and sipping wine as she describes with
gruesome specificity the process of harvesting and selling aborted baby parts. In between sips,
she explains to undercover journalists she thought represented a human biologics company the
different price points for various parts head, heart, liver, lungs and how Planned Parenthood
abortionists can intentionally preserve intact body parts while performing an abortion. The
Planned Parenthood executive is asked how the cold economics of supply and demand figure
into Planned Parenthoods calculations during an abortion procedure. It makes a huge
difference, the executive responded. She then proceeds to explain that for that reason, the
Planned Parenthood doctors will place the forceps and crush the baby in such a way to preserve
the more profitable organs.
Selling body parts from an aborted baby for profit is a federal crime, punishable by up to ten
years in prison and/or a fine of up to $500,000. Some of the procedures described in the video
appear to be similar to partial-birth abortion, a grotesque procedure which was banned in 2003
with the passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003; the Act was upheld in 2007 by
the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart. Planned Parenthood responded to the public outrage
generated by the videos release by stating the body parts were donated with consent of the
customers. Yet, despite Planned Parenthoods claims that they do not financially benefit from
their sales of baby parts, one of the harvesting companies that works with Planned Parenthood
advertises the opportunity for financial benefits and says that clinics can expect to be fiscally
reward[ed].
This isnt the first time Planned Parenthood has faced accusations of breaking the law, while
receiving taxpayer support. For the last several years, a public report has been submitted to
Congress detailing 44 known audits and other reviews that show Planned Parenthoods waste,
abuse, and potential fraud of tax-payer dollars (www.investigatetheirplan.org). As of 2014, the
total documented waste and abuse by state family planning programs was in excess of $115
million dollars, the lions share of which was attributed to Planned Parenthood. The potential
fraud included the illegal practice of billing and being reimbursed by Title XIX agencies for
medications and/or services provided in connection with an abortion. Other alleged billing
violations include overbilling for contraceptives and Plan B products, billing for unnecessary
treatments, and billing multiple times for a single visit. How is it that over half a billion in
taxpayer money goes to Planned Parenthood every year?
We applaud Congress for the announcement of a congressional investigation of Planned
Parenthood and we call on attorney generals to do investigations of Planned Parenthood in their

states. These investigations must be thorough, extensive and include not only financial fraud but
also possible illegal trafficking in baby parts and possible violations of the federal partial birth
abortion ban. We also call on Congress and state officials to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood has a track record of covering up rape and suspected sexual abuse of
underage girls who seek abortions at Planned Parenthood. Last year, a complaint was filed
against a Tempe, Arizona, Planned Parenthood facility for failing to report, as state law requires,
the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl. According to police reports, the Planned Parenthood
counselor told the alleged victim and her mother at an abortion consultation that she did not
want the hassle of having to report the assault to law enforcement. In Colorado, Planned
Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains recently settled a lawsuit alleging that it performed an
abortion on a 13-year-old girl who had been impregnated by her stepfather, without providing
the legally required notice to the girls parents or reporting the abuse to the authorities. Instead,
Planned Parenthood is alleged to have looked the other way, performed an abortion on the girl,
and sent her out the door with her rapist stepfather, who continued to sexually abuse her.
Along with China and North Korea, the United States is one of only seven nations in the world
that allows for abortions after 20 weeks, an age which scientific evidence has proven that an
unborn child can feel excruciating pain. But Planned Parenthood relentlessly campaigned against
the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, federal legislation that would prohibit abortions
at that precise 20 week mark. While Planned Parenthood opposes all laws and other limits on its
abortion profit operation, the exposure of its side business selling baby parts brings its fierce
opposition to this law and others like it into clearer focus. The undercover videos suggest
Planned Parenthood has engaged in the farming of baby organs from pain-capable children.
As evidenced by the videos, pain, health, and ethics are of little concern to Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is a publicly-funded, billion-dollar abortion empire. As crony capitalists,
they are dependent on taxpayer dollars, and thanks to their powerful labyrinth of lobbyists and
politicians in Washington and in state capitols across the country, they have been successful,
year after year, in obtaining tax-payer dollars to fund their abortion-driven political machine. All
the while, Planned Parenthood returned this favor to its political allies by spending millions,
exclusively on pro-abortion Democrats, to return them to positions of power.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III

Mr. William L. Walton

Former Attorney General

President Ronald Reagan

Vice President
Council for National Policy

The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)

Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP)

Former White House Advisor, President Ronald
Reagan

Executive Vice President

Family Research Council

Mr. Alfred S. Regnery

The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council

Chairman
Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund

The Honorable Colin A. Hanna

The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman
Constitutional Congress, Inc.

President
Let Freedom Ring, Inc.

Mr. Ed Corrigan

David Williams

Former Executive Director

Senate Steering Committee

President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance

The Honorable Bob McEwen

Seton Motley

U.S. House of Representatives

Former Member, Ohio

President
Less Government

Mr. L. Brent Bozell, III

Michael Farris

Chairman
ForAmerica

Chancellor
Patrick Henry College

Mrs. Marjorie Dannenfelser

Kelly Monroe Kullberg

President
Susan B. Anthony List

The America Conservancy

Mr. Michael A. Needham

President and CEO

Americans United for Life

Chief Executive Officer

Heritage Action for America

The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Former Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan

Mrs. Kristan J. Hawkins

President
Students for Life of America

Bob Adams
President
Revive America PAC

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

Austin Ruse
President
Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam)

Quin Hillyer
Veteran conservative columnist
LifeZette

Dr. Rick Scarborough

Founder and President
Vision America

Charles J. Cooper

Ali Akbar

Cooper & Kirk, PLLC

Senior Advisor
Black Conservatives Fund

William J. Becker, Jr.

Nancy Pfotenhauer

President/CEO/General Counsel
Freedom X

Former White House Economist

President George H.W. Bush

Jason Jones

Craig Shirley

Founder
Movie to Movement

Reagan biographer

Diana Banister
President
Shirley & Banister

Willes K. Lee
Vice President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies

Kevin Freeman

Meeting Coordinator for Conservatives of Faith

Founder
NSIC Institute

Kevin Kookogey

Leslee Unruh

Robert K. Fischer

President & Founder

Linchpins of Liberty

President
National Abstinence Clearinghouse

J. Keet Lewis

The Honorable Donald J. Devine

Heritage Alliance (c4)

Heritage Alliance PAC

Former Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel

Management in Ronald Reagan's first term
Senior Scholar, Fund for American Studies

Rod D. Martin
Founder and CEO
The Martin Organization

EC Sykes
Managing Partner
Aslan Capital Fund

Sherri Martin
The Martin Foundation

Donna Hearne

Jerry Melvin

CEO
The Constitutional Coalition

President
Florida Republican Assembly

C. Preston Noell III

Shawn Mitchell

President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.

National Chaplain
National Federation of Republican Assemblies

Mario H. Lopez

Andrea S. Lafferty

President
Hispanic Leadership Fund

President
Traditional Values Coalition

Sharron Angle

Ron Robinson

President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies

President
Young America's Foundation

Robert D. Thompson

Matt Mackowiak

Administrator
The Weyrich Lunch

Executive Director
Fight For Tomorrow

Ron Pearson

Christopher Malagisi

Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund

President
Young Conservatives Coalition

Gary A. Marx

Floyd Brown

Senior Partner
Madison Strategies

President
Western Center for Journalism

Bradley Mattes

Star Parker

President
Life Issues Institute

President
Center for Urban Renewal and Education

Erick-Woods Erickson

Derek McCoy

Editor-in-Chief, RedState
Host of The Erick Erickson Show

National Clergy Relations Director

Center for Urban Renewal and Education

Penny Nance

C. L. Gray, MD

President and CEO

Concerned Women for America

President
Physicians for Reform

Dee Hodges

David A. Keene

President
Maryland Taxpayers Association

Opinion Editor
The Washington Times

Mrs. Elaine Donnelly

Honorable Tim G. Echols

Founder and President

Center for Military Readiness

Commissioner, State of Georgia

Founder, TeenPact Leadership School
Founder, William Wilberforce Weekend

Terrence Scanlon
President
Capital Research Center

Ralph Benko
Chairman
The Center for Civic Virtue

Donna Rice Hughes

President & CEO
Enough Is Enough

Mike Spence
President
Conservative Republicans of California

Richard A. Viguerie
Chairman
ConservativeHQ.com

Dr. James C. Dobson

Founder & President
Dr. James Dobsons FamilyTalk

Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values

Alex St. James

Executive Director
Blacks for Economic Security Trust

Jeanne Mancini
President
March for Life Education & Defense Fund

The Honorable Walter (Mike) B. Hill

Member (District 2)
Florida House of Representatives

Tom McClusky
Vice President
March for Life Action

The Honorable Paul Pressler

Past President
Council for National Policy

Phyllis Schlafly
Chairman
Eagle Forum

Col Francis X. De Luca USMCR(Ret)

President
Civitas Institute

Fr. Frank Pavone

National Director
Priests for Life

Dan Weber
CEO
Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)

Jim Backlin
Christian Coalition of America

Bob Carlstrom

Melissa Ortiz

President
The Carlstrom Group

Founder & Principal

Able Americans

Mike Stenhouse

Amy Ridenour

CEO
Freedom & Prosperity

Chairman
The National Center for Public Policy Research

Joel Anand Samy

Phil Kerpen

Co-Founder and President

International Leaders Summit

President
American Commitment

Beverly Gossage
HSA Benefits Consulting

E.W. Jackson Sr.

Founder and President
STAND

Anthony Saliba
CEO
Saliba Venture Management

Abby S. Moffat
Vice President and COO
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

Jim DeMint
President
Heritage Foundation

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