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(The Daily Signal<\/a>) Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is leading Republican lawmakers in calling on the Government Accountability Office to explain what kind of federal funding Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are receiving.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent Tuesday, the lawmakers reminded the Government Accountability Office that the agency has prepared several congressionally requested reports in the past on federal funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly known as Marie Stopes International), and four other domestic abortion providers.<\/p>\n

The domestic\u00a0abortion<\/a>\u00a0providers specified in the letter are FPA Women\u2019s Health, American Women\u2019s Services, All Women\u2019s Health Center, and Whole Women\u2019s Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are asking GAO to do is to give us a report showing where this funding has gone from 2019 through 2021, and of course, what we want to see is the money trail on this,\u201d Blackburn told The Daily Signal in a phone interview ahead of Friday\u2019s annual\u00a0March for Life<\/a>\u00a0and the anniversary on Saturday of\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/a>, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Planned Parenthood\u2019s plummeting health care services prove it\u2019s not focused on women\u2019s health<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that these Planned Parenthood chapters, many times at their facilities, they will get the money, money is fungible, and while they say it is not used for abortion, it is used for other health care services,\u201d the Republican senator added. \u201cStill, it is all in that same pot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmakers specifically note in the letter that they want data on any Paycheck Protection Program loans received by Planned Parenthood, as well as related loan forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Republicans have repeatedly accused Planned Parenthood of illegally receiving those loans and\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0on the Small Business Administration to investigate how and why the\u00a0abortion<\/a>\u00a0giant was given coronavirus aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s report is going to have an extra request, and that has to do with the Paycheck Protection Program, with those PPP funds, because we found out that some Planned Parenthood organizations had applied for and received those funds,\u201d Blackburn told The Daily Signal. \u201cSo, what we would like to know is, who they are and how much did they get?\u201d<\/p>\n

Blackburn expects that the Government Accountability Office will provide the requested\u00a0data<\/a>\u00a0as it has done in the past.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Daily Signal<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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