Planned Parenthood Chooses Abortion Over Women’s Health

Title X was established in 1970 to provide family planning services such as check-ups and contraceptives to low income families. Last year, Planned Parenthood received about $60 million from Title X and these taxpayer funds free up the organizations budget, allowing them to allocate more non-federal dollars to abortion programs.

In order to prevent US taxpayer dollars from being used to indirectly subsidize abortions, in May of 2018, the Trump administration announced that recipients of Title X funding would no longer be able to operate under the same roof as an abortion clinic or refer patients to abortion clinics.

Heritage Action Vice President Jessica Anderson explained: Planned Parenthood just chose abortion over health care yet again. Yesterday, they gave up millions of dollars of funding for health care for low-income women by refusing to separate their Title X family planning and preventive services from abortion activity. This decision, which comes on the heels of Dr. Leana Wen resigning as the group’s president over their increasingly political focus on abortion, shows their true agenda of abortion advocacy above women’s health.

For years, Planned Parenthood has claimed that abortions only account for only 3% of all procedures they perform (a number that’s long been debunked), but it’s telling that they would choose this supposed 3% of their business over the other 97%. The truth is, abortion has always been the backbone of Planned Parenthood’s business, and now it’s plain for all the world to see.

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