Planned Parenthood believes your money should be used to help poor women get abortions. That, and not those Live Action “gotcha” videos, is the real scandal involving the organization whose official name is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or PPFA for short. And, unlike what happened when Live Action sent a man posing as a pimp to get some misguided or misinformed PPFA staffer to agree to help underage girls get abortions, this is a scandal the organization can’t deny. The official PPFA position is posted on its Web site. The folks at PPFA were upset last year that President Obama’s 2010 budget “does not remove government funding restrictions on abortions.” In other words, the taxpayers’ wallets should be open whenever any indigent woman, anywhere, for any reason, wants an abortion.
Here’s more from the 2010 PPFA statement on restrictions on government funding for abortion:
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