I am happy to see Planned Parenthood finally receiving the negative attention they deserve. For years this tax payer funded organization was looked upon by the general public in a favorable light despite their negative goals. Yesterday in Washington D.C. a group of activists urged Congress to initiate an audit of Planned Parenthood after it was reported that Planned Parenthood was accepting donations specifically targeted for abortion in the African American community.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has perpetuated a “genocide on the black community,” says a group of African-American pastors who claimed Thursday the birth control and abortion provider has had a racist agenda since its beginnings in 1921.
Holding a brief vigil and press conference in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington, D.C., the group of pastors and activists said they were incensed by the results of recent “undercover” inquiries into several Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.

“Every day … over 1,500 black babies are murdered inside the black woman’s womb,” said Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND). “This is a race issue.”

The pastors urged Congress to initiate an audit of the organization and have written letters demanding that money for Planned Parenthood be eliminated from federal Title X funding, of which the group got $65 million for fiscal year 2007, according to pro-life Concerned Women of America. In total, Planned Parenthood received $300 million in government contracts and grants in the current fiscal year.

The national office of Planned Parenthood provided FOX News with a lengthy statement on Thursday in which it said its role in the African-American community is widespread because the need is greater.

I had written about this issue not too long ago, reminding you that Planned Parenthood was simply following their founders vision of eugenics. Approximately 80% of Planned Parenthood’s facilities nationwide are located in minority neighborhoods, and approximately 1/3 of abortions they perform are on African Americans even though they make up just over 1/10 the population.

Planned Parenthoods response to this is that the need is greater there. Ed Morrissey asks, the need for what?

The need is greater? The need for what? They point to a study that shows almost half of all black teenage girls carry an STD, but that would indicate that PP hasn’t performed very effectively with the millions it gets already. PP has been targeting these communities for decades, and the problem to which it points highlights its failure — because everyone knows they’re not all that interested in STDs anyway.

People can buy condoms at Walgreens. They get abortions at Planned Parenthood.

Congress certainly needs to investigate how our tax dollars are being used by this organization. For fiscal year 2006/07 Planned Parenthood earned $114.8 million dollars on $1.02 billion in revenue. Astonishingly the “not for profit group” received $336.7 million from American taxpayers.

Tell Congress to stop funding Planned Parenthood, sign the petition.

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