Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards hauled before Congress yesterday to answer questions about millions of dollars spent on political activities, travel and lavish salaries.
But the real fireworks came when Rep. Cynthia Lummins, R-WY, proved that Richards and Planned Parenthood have been misleading Americans for years about how important abortions are to the organization’s business.
Richards and other Planned Parenthood representatives have long claimed that abortions only account for 3% of Planned Parenthood’s total procedures.
But under examination, Richards admitted that abortions actually account for a staggering 86% of Planned Parenthood’s non-federal revenue.
The organization’s 3% claim is being called a ‘pathetic lie’ by multiple news sources, and the organization’s rationale was explained in a recent Op-Ed by National Review editor Rich Lowry:
Such cracked reasoning could be used to obscure the purpose of any organization. The sponsors of the New York City Marathon could count each small cup of water they hand out (some 2 million cups, compared with 45,000 runners) and say they are mainly in the hydration business.
Or Major League Baseball teams could say that they sell about 20 million hot dogs and play 2,430 games in a season, so baseball is only .012 percent of what they do.
In other words, while Planned Parenthood may provide dozens of services, abortion is where it makes its money.
Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said the panel’s examination of tax and other documents also showed that the group has given $22 million over the past five years to its political affiliate, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. He said it also spent more than $5 million on “exorbitant” travel in 2013 and paid Richards — who sat at the witness table in front of him — a massive annual salary of more than $500,000 a year.
According to Chaffetz, as well as reports from the Live Action News, Richard’s has gotten a raise every year since 2011, and her salary has ballooned by 40% in that time period.
Richards’ appearance marked the group’s first public face-to-face encounter with Republicans since videos apparently showing Planned Parenthood reps selling fetal tissue elevated abortion — and a drive to block Planned Parenthood’s federal payments — to a top-tier political issue.
Several Republican presidential hopefuls have condemned Planned Parenthood for its work providing fetal tissue. And conservatives’ demands that Congress cut the group’s federal payments — for which Republicans lack the votes to succeed — indirectly contributed to the GOP unrest that prompted House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to announce his resignation last week.
Chaffetz said that the group’s infusion of federal money lets it use its non-federal dollars for politics.
“That has absolutely nothing to do with young women who need a breast exam,” said Chaffetz. “It’s a political organization.”
Democrats have used a Senate filibuster — a virtually endless procedural delay — to block GOP legislation halting Planned Parenthood’s federal payments. So two House committees plan to approve filibuster-proof legislation shifting Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funds — about $350 million — to community health centers.
The video of some of Richards’ admissions is below:
The Associated Press contributed to this story
Rich Lowry’s article, “Planned Parenthood’s Pathetic 3 percent lie”
Again , things like this make you distrustful of other non profits when asked to donate. The presidents and upper management are getting the contributions not the needy.
I don’t understand how you can trust the republican leaders, when they have to lie to YOU to make a point. Just like Chaffetz pulled up that graph and out right LIED about him pulling those figures from Planned Parenthood documents, knowing darn well it was provided by a pro-life scammer. To go as far as creating a non-profit organization to go undercover for witch hunt that could not prove anything, They had make up the film in order to get the lies they were after. You create a lie and then want to defund a program that helps millions because of a lie you create, where is justice, where is accountability.
So Were is your legal proof of these accusations of the Senator lying and the video’s being false? Maybe your the one putting forth the lies trying to protect an organization that kills unborn babies and dismembers them so they can make a profit by parting them out. Almost 60 million dead babies is genocide. Planned Parent has made Hitler’s genocide look like minor league stuff.
Where did you get the off the wall figure of 60 million dead babies? Roe V Wade happened 42 years ago. Assuming Planned Parenthood instantly started doing abortions in 1973, to hit 60 million they would have had to perform over 1.4 million abortions a year. Since the total number of births in the US has fluctuated from about 3.5 to 4.1 million a year since 1979, this would mean that 25-29% of all pregnancies in the US for the last 42 years ended up as being aborted by Planned Parenthood. This estimate totally ignores all the abortions performed in other settings. Are you really saying that perhaps as many as 40% of all pregnancies in the US end up as abortions? If so, do you really believe that most American women oppose abortion, or that Republicans who oppose abortion really are trying to represent the will of the people?
So you trust Hillary and Obama and all those messes? Poor you. Republicans, Democrats…have you found perfection somewhere in there? 🙂
Miss Richards should be prosecuted and ban planned parenthood of any federal/state money. I hope she has answers to her maker on judgement day. Good Luck Cecile
Frances is you have been divorced or had an affair, it might be harder for you, when you meet with the creator.
Killing helpless babies is the shedding of innocent blood. God will deal harshly with unrepentant murders of babies and others who victims of the blood lust. How many babies must die to satisfy this diabolical need to kill our off spring?
Prosecuted for what? Assuming for the sake of argument that all the hyperbole from the right wing is correct, it is not illegal to perform abortions. Nor is it illegal to provide fetal tissue for medical research. I bet many right wingers really miss the good old days when we could just burn people as witches and be done with it.
Hitler passed laws so that it was not illegal to kill Jews. We need to ask what is moral
Before donating to any charity that you have not personally vetted their are several sites that offer information. They may not be perfect but it is a place to start. For example I found out that Wounded Warriors, who has several Hollyweed celebrities shilling for them provided very little money for wounded warriors percentage wide. The name sounds like it would be a good charity but the facts show a very different picture.
Yes, just like the organization that Trump supported, claiming they had help thousands of veterans, when in fact they didn’t even have members, never had helped anyone. So please be careful and maybe Trump can be smarter next time .
Talk about “Blood Money”! I’ve always heard that term, but nothing compares to this use of it. These people are hardly human.
Blood Money really? They don’t make money on body parts for research, which is legal, they only collect the expense they incur, ie freight or office materials. Hardly human is the hate that is instilled on those that do not help the needy and are money hungry greedy.
This news source is just like the enquire at your local news stand. The headlines rarely match up to the detail..ie. unions dump Clinton for trump…reads the headline but the story details don’t agree…I will dump this source in favor of hardball…and that’s no bull
Ms. Richards is in the same class of evil as those who oversaw the concentration camps in Hitler’s Germany. She is pure evil and is responsible for the slaughter of millions of innocent babies.
Planned Parenthood should not get any federal funds for any thing. They are in the baby slaughter business. Thanks to the undercover videos we now know Planned Parenthood parts out the babies’ mutilated bodies once they have killed them. We also know they make their money preying on women who are at a difficult point in their life.
Cecile Richards’ lying is the least of her sins. She is a reprobate in every sense of the word.
Such crap Ms. Richardson DOES NOT murder babies, women abort their fetus, it’s their right. She works for a legal corporation that has been helping millions for over 4 decades, with medical help. Do you not read, have you not heard that that video was edited to make a false claim? And the fund that Planned Parenthood gets is just like other clinics, through medicare, medicaid reimbursements. Your condemning is not going to get you to heaven, be careful.
Clealy you have not done your homework. You just bought the lie that the videos were edited. I’ve studied them. The facts are there. And that is why the accusations concerning the videos having been edited have not produced a dismissal of the allegations. In FACT, it’s quite the opposite. The more investigative research that is conducted, the more adamant the insistence that PP should be defunded and their doors closed forever. One must consider that this is 2015: there are many options to utilize should someone actually want to plan for procreation. Norplant would be a good option, for instance — I think Implanon is a similar product. Interestingly, I can’t find anyone with PP to even talk about this issue. As a writer, I can tell you this issue has been obfuscated since the beginning of the legalization process. Abortion is wrong on its face — have you watched the videos of abortion in progress? — and all the lies that were used to push through the legislation that would allow it to take root are now evident. For instance, it wa never a ‘blob of tissue’ and anyone that would buy that has never been pregnant. Watch those tiny babies trying to escape the abortionist’s tools and then try to stand for abortion. Any reasonable human being would have to stand on the side of these precious little ones.
Justin leaves out the inconvenient facts that the victims of concentration camps, unlike the desperate women seeking abortions, did not voluntarily ask for their services. He also appears to fail to realize that Planned Parenthood tries to provide women with the means to avoid unwanted pregnancies, but that conservative inspired laws make that as difficult as possible. Laws in many states prohibit young girls from seeking birth control without parental permission, ban the teaching of effective sex education in schools, ban researchers from collecting data about sexual behavior in order to better understand the problems, and on and on and on. Until the advent of Obamacare most insurance companies refused to pay for birth control counseling or drugs/equipment. Then, when as a result of these barriers to effective birth control, a woman becomes pregnant, the right wing condemns those who try to help as evil.
There is no longer a need for Planned Parenthood anyway. There are thousands of Health Clinics in the country that can take care of women’s medical issues that don’t delve in politics. Years ago that was not the case. Young women have been lied to over and over again by this establishment. The majority of taxpaying Americans and voters do not wish their hard earned money to go to this establishment. Murdering well over 50 million babies is a appalling sin. Let them self fund, women will not suffer in anyway.
We need to all understand that we don’t all have the same moral values as others. Some only hold some life as precious, others hold all lives as precious and valuable. There is only one who has the right to take a life and that is God himself. All people should value life no matter what. If you take a life, that blood will always be on your hands. Just ask anyone who has had to take a life, that life blood is always screaming out, just like every aborted baby wiggles and moves due to the pain that it endures. These procedures are not only numbing the affect of sin but of our consciousness of sin as well.
We the people need to stop being so selfish about the rights of women and think about the right of the life of that precious baby. If i was a women with child, i would lay down my own life before I let a defenseless child die. Please, we talk about love and selflessness, so why do we think it is alright to kill a baby?
The only one I see here that seems to think killing these precious little babies is a good thing is Alicia Salinas. May God open her eyes to see and deliver her from her reprobate mind.
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