Letter to the Editor

Franklin County GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood
 
Letter to the Editor:
 
     Recent revelations of abortions associated with Planned Parenthood casts their practice into the realm of intolerable. The videos released over the past weeks have shown abortion-on-demand leads: The careful harvesting of body parts from nameless babies only to be sold to the highest bidder “cafeteria style.”
     The value of life within the walls of Planned Parenthood is by its utility and convenience, as opposed to the inherent dignity of innocent human life. According to The Daily Signal, “Planned Parenthood has ridden the waves of taxpayer funding to millions of dollars in annual surpluses. During its last reporting year, like many before it, the organization reported revenues over expenses exceeding $127 million and net assets of more than $104 billion. During that year, Planned Parenthood received over $528 million in taxpayer funded grants and reimbursements from federal and state coffers - 41 percent of the organization’s total revenue. As a Government Accountability office report released this past March demonstrates. a large portion of that taxpayer money comes from a variety of federal sources, including Title X and Medicaid”.
     The Central Committee of the Franklin County Republicans supports all state and federal efforts to eliminate taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
 
Tom Crane
Co-Chair, Franklin County Republicans
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