Planned Parenthood’s main ‘service’ is abortion Re: “Planned Parenthood provides valuable services,” From Readers, Feb. 23
Washington’s Planned Parenthood President Laura Meyers is worried that Congress will cut off their funding. She lists routine services PP provides to justify the over $363 million PP has received this year alone. But these services could easily be obtained from other health care providers.
Meyers does not list abortion, although PP is the largest abortion provider in the world, performing over 325,000 annually. PP is striving to increase that number because abortions bring in the most revenue.
She also does not list the illegal services PP has been shown to provide for pedophiles and pimps, its failure to report these detestable crimes, and its practice of performing abortions on underage girls and returning them for further sexual abuse and sex-slavery.
The vast majority of Americans don’t want their taxes used to prop up an organization whose main business is abortion. They see the cutoff of federal funding to PP as a good start to reducing government spending.
Carolyn Naughton
Silver Spring
Levy’s killer has no right to privacy
Re: “Why won’t feds come clean about Chandra Levy’s killer?” Feb. 15
Examiner Columnist Barbara Hollingsworth is right. We need to know what is in the American taxpayer-funded sentencing memo. So, Ronald Machen, get out another copy of the sentencing report, throw away the big paintbrush you used, and only black out the sections which describe with gruesome specificity the injuries Ingmar Guandique inflicted on his many victims.
Hollingsworth is right again when she disputes the need to seal Guandique’s file. He does not deserve privacy, and the public needs to see the file. No wonder so many think the federal government sides with non-Americans.
Jim McDonald
Alexandria
Foreign tax break is breaking the U.S.
When President Nixon was preparing for his 1972 campaign, he had Congress change the income tax laws so that foreign taxes paid by American companies to foreign governments (formerly a business deduction) became a foreign tax credit. This reduced the taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service by the full amount of the deduction.
The difference is uncontrolled foreign aid, which is being doled out by the multinational companies without being subject to congressional review.
During eight years under Ronald Reagan, the U.S. went from being the world’s largest creditor nation to being the world’s largest debtor nation and was nearly bankrupted. We are still suffering from those deficit years. In these days of tight budgets, we should return the IRS foreign tax credit back to a foreign tax deduction.
Michael A. Levine
Sierra Madre, Calif.
