Thirty-seven Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and received nearly $80 million in federal funding from the Paycheck Protection Program, a program that was created to aid struggling small businesses and organizations throughout the coronavirus pandemic, according to Fox News.
Planned Parenthood insists its individual affiliates were eligible for PPP loans due to the organization’s 501(c)3 nonprofit status. But the Small Business Administration, which is in charge of PPP funding, is right to question why a large organization with thousands of employees and hundreds of locations, many of which were allowed to continue operating throughout the shutdown, is using funds specifically reserved for small businesses with limited resources that had been forced to shut their doors.
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