{"id":172645,"date":"2017-10-06T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172645"},"modified":"2017-10-06T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:46:32","slug":"tax-funded-planned-parenthood-spends-500k-organize-army-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tax-funded-planned-parenthood-spends-500k-organize-army-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax-funded Planned Parenthood spends $500K to organize ‘army of volunteers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPACT) and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) are\u00a0spending $500,000 to organize “an army<\/a> of volunteers” to support their 650 centers across the country. According to Rewire<\/a>, which supports Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion mission, several hundred “volunteers” met recently in Seattle to discuss the grand plan to mobilize Planned Parenthood’s supporters and “go on the offensive.”<\/p>\n

The goal, according to Rewire was to, “develop more than 600 volunteer teams in the next year or so.”<\/p>\n

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PP Defense Strategy in Seattle (image: Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n

“In practice, this means mobilizing on-the-ground support for each of the organization\u2019s roughly 650 health centers,” Rewire wrote.<\/p>\n

Buzzfeed also\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0about the effort,\u00a0organized under the direction of Planned Parenthood\u2019s national organizing director Kelley Robinson, stating:<\/p>\n

Over the next 12 months, the 100-year-old women\u2019s health and abortion rights group will build a corps of 600 volunteer-led community organizing teams across the country, each one located near a Planned Parenthood health center […]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Planned Parenthood Tweets about their Defense Strategy Meeting<\/p><\/div>\n

Live Action News has discovered that Planned Parenthood has been holding these “organizing summits” in several states. In early September, Planned Parenthood held events in Phoenix<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Missouri<\/a>, and Buzzfeed reports<\/a> that Planned Parenthood also held\u00a0summits<\/a> in Oklahoma City<\/a> and Charlotte, North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PP organizing summit program guide<\/p><\/div>\n

Buzzfeed pointed to Planned Parenthood’s previous “volunteer” training used to push the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That effort was funded by the taxpayers under the ACA’s Navigator program.<\/p>\n

According to Buzzfeed, “The ‘curriculum’ they plan to use […] will be an updated version of one used they\u2019ve used before, though never at a program of this scale.”\u00a0Adding that:<\/p>\n

At each of the four gatherings, planned for Seattle, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Oklahoma City, around 250 hand-picked volunteers will undergo three days of trainings, covering digital programs, protests, congressional town halls, and the more basic work of building volunteer structures. Planned Parenthood will equip volunteers with online tools like phone banks and webinars, an official said, as well as ‘lots of pink materials, including shirts’ \u2014 uniform of the ‘pink army’ known to appear at rallies and protests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With calls to defund Planned Parenthood growing ever louder, it might seem reasonable that this desperate abortion corporation, with half a billion taxpayer dollars at risk, would attempt to mobilize support.\u00a0However, this is not Planned Parenthood’s first attempt at rallying their so-called volunteer “army.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, Planned Parenthood went looking for young people to recruit for what it labeled its “Summer of Defiance,”<\/a>\u00a0 to “provide activists campaigning and organizing skills while working on actual campaigns such as the national fight for health care reform or passing local sex education policy.”<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood prepares for War (Image: Think Progress)<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2016, Think Progress, a Progressive website that supports legal abortion, reported how Planned Parenthood was spending $20 million in an effort to recruit their “army” to help gain votes for Democrat politicians, specifically Hillary Clinton. Apparently, the soldiers never turned up as Hillary was ultimately defeated.<\/p>\n

In their puff piece<\/a> entitled, “As It Prepares For War, Planned Parenthood Is Training A Political Army,<\/em>” Think Progress described Planned Parenthood’s effort as, “one part of what Planned Parenthood says will be the most expensive electoral effort in its 100-year history.”<\/p>\n

Think Progress wrote in part, “For Planned Parenthood, this election season means war. And you can\u2019t win a war without an army.”<\/p>\n

The newest attempt to grow Planned Parenthood’s “army” comes on the heels of yet another failure by the GOP Congress to remove PPFA’s more than half a billion in forced taxpayer dollars from the abortion corporation.\u00a0But, it confirms that Planned Parenthood<\/a> has indeed been on the defensive following years of undercover investigations<\/a>\u00a0conducted by Live Action which exposed Planned Parenthood’s history of\u00a0misinformation<\/a>, falsehoods<\/a>, covering up of child sexual abuse<\/a> and child sex trafficking<\/a>, and deceptive advertising.<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition, undercover videos published by the Center for Medical Progress<\/a> (CMP) shocked the nation and revealed Planned Parenthood’s gruesome baby parts scheme capturing leading Planned Parenthood staffers as they haggled over the bodies of babies they aborted.<\/p>\n

READ: 5 things we learned about Planned Parenthood from the ‘baby parts’ videos<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood’s survival may be dependent upon this alleged grassroots effort and, of course, the tax payers who once again (thanks to the US Congress) are forced to send the money for Planned Parenthood to pull it off. After all, the organization’s own\u00a0numbers reveal<\/a> that they are losing massive amounts of patients, dropping\u00a0more than\u00a0600,000 since 2011, while Planned Parenthood’s reports show that their alleged “health care”\u00a0services<\/a>\u00a0are decreasing rapidly.<\/p>\n

And, despite taxpayer\u00a0funding to Planned Parenthood doubling in past years, losing patients and decreasing actual health services, Planned Parenthood has managed to increase the one “service” they claim they do not focus on: abortion.<\/p>\n

Today, Planned Parenthood garners 35 percent of the abortion market share nationally.<\/p>\n

The fact remains that Planned Parenthood can afford to waste their dollars growing their “army” because with the help of the U.S. Congress, Planned Parenthood has been\u00a0netting<\/a>\u00a0millions of dollars in excess revenue almost every year.<\/p>\n

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