{"id":175738,"date":"2017-12-03T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T11:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=175738"},"modified":"2017-12-02T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:01:17","slug":"spain-strips-status-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/spain-strips-status-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain’s high court strips “public service organization” status from Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Court of Spain has stripped the Family Planning Federation (FPF), Spain’s division of the International Planned Parenthood<\/a> Federation, of its status as a\u00a0\u201cpublic service organization.\u201d FPF had failed to make necessary reforms after receiving illegal funding for seven years.<\/p>\n

This illegal activity included a failure to “declare[] income from ads they ran in a pharmaceutical magazine, prohibited under Spanish law,” for which they were not penalized.<\/p>\n

According to an ACI Prensa translation courtesy of the\u00a0Catholic News Agency<\/a>, the FPF originally “lost its designation in May 2016” but it had been “temporarily reinstated the designation after reforms were promised.” Then, on November 25, after these promises were not kept, the National Court revoked the group’s status, meaning the group also lost “numerous tax, economic, administrative, and legal benefits.” The organization was reportedly receiving “more than \u20ac400,000,” equating to approximately\u00a0$445,000 annually.<\/p>\n

The Catholic News Agency notes that to receive a PSO designation, an institution must “tend to promote the public interest and… promot[e] constitutional values and human rights.\u201d Covering up sexual abuse<\/a>, aiding and abetting human traffickers<\/a>, giving women inaccurate information<\/a> about fetal development and abortion, and giving teens disturbing advice on sex<\/a> do not generally “promote the public interest,” and the fact that Planned Parenthood commits more than 320,000 abortions<\/a> every year in the United States alone proves that “human rights” is an issue that the organization ignores in favor of monetary gain.<\/p>\n