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The City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has voted to proceed with a planned $250,000 sponsorship for Planned Parenthood. Though city councilors initially announced the funding in May<\/a>, it was challenged by\u00a0City Councilor\u00a0Ren\u00e9e Grout, who proposed a bill<\/a> that would reroute that money to Barrett House, a local homeless shelter, instead. Councilors voted Monday to reject Grout’s proposal and keep the sponsorship of the abortion business as planned. However, they also added additional budget funding for Barrett House within the city budget.<\/p>\n

City Councilors Isaac Benton, Pat Davis, Tammy Fiebelkorn, Trudy Jones and Klarissa Pe\u00f1a voted for the bill that funded Planned Parenthood.\u00a0According to the Albuquerque Journal, the debate drew impassioned speakers from both sides of the issue to the August 15 meeting. Fiebelkorn, who sponsored the original Planned Parenthood bill, offered the claim that Planned Parenthood provides much-needed services like STD testing, contraception, and wellness visits.\u00a0\u201cI think those are all things that most normal people support,\u201d she said<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cI would love to give Planned Parenthood way, way more money,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Councilor Dan Lewis, however, questioned<\/a> Fiebelkorn as to why an abortion business that brings in millions per year would need additional funding.\u00a0\u201cDid they approach you about this money?\u201d he asked her. \u201cIs this something you were passionate about? Is this an organization that\u2019s helped you?\u201d (While Lewis mentions that Planned Parenthood brings in millions each year, the reality is that it received\u00a0nearly $6 billion<\/em><\/a> from U.S. taxpayers while accumulating $1 billion<\/em> in excess revenue over expenses based on numbers from its 2019-2020 report.)<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pregnancy centers vs. abortion businesses: Who truly offers \u2018limited services\u2019?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fiebelkorn responded with a defense of Planned Parenthood.\u00a0\u201cIt is insane to say that $250,000 for this great organization won\u2019t be spent in a really good manner,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

KSFR reports<\/a> that Lewis also questioned whether or not the funds would be used for abortions. The Albuquerque Department Director of Family and Community Services Carol Pierce claimed the funds would go toward services like wellness visits, breast exams, STD testing, and cancer screenings. Pierce didn’t mention abortion as one of the covered services.<\/p>\n

But while Pierce and Fiebelkorn lauded Planned Parenthood as a much-needed organization offering these wellness services to the community, it’s an oft-used claim that has little supporting data. In fact, the corporation’s own reported numbers show just the opposite. Past Planned Parenthood reports have revealed that just three percent of women<\/a> of reproductive age visit Planned Parenthood facilities. Despite this incredibly small number, it commits 41% of all abortions in the nation.<\/p>\n

While the corporation claims to perform breast exams, Planned Parenthood does not offer mammograms \u2014 a staple procedure in breast cancer screening. Additional data shows that Planned Parenthood provides less than one percent<\/a> of US pap tests<\/a>, less than one percent of prenatal services, and two percent<\/a> of breast cancer screenings. Despite these abysmal numbers, the number of abortions it commits every year continues to increase (an estimated<\/a> one abortion every 89 seconds). Newly-released data<\/a> points to\u00a0Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) as the primary provider of the health and wellness services that\u00a0Pierce and Fiebelkorn describe, outnumbering<\/a> Planned Parenthood facilities by 14 to 1.<\/p>\n

While Albuquerque city councilors can paint the city’s funding of Planned Parenthood as a common good that will provide much-needed health services to the city’s residents, the numbers don’t lie. The killing of preborn children, not the health and well-being of women, is the lifeblood of the organization.<\/p>\n

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The City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has voted to proceed with a planned $250,000 sponsorship for Planned Parenthood. Though city councilors initially announced the funding in May, it was challenged by\u00a0City Councilor\u00a0Ren\u00e9e Grout, who proposed a bill that would reroute that money to Barrett House, a local homeless shelter, instead. 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