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The Biden administration has determined that Planned Parenthood did not flout COVID relief rules when its various affiliates obtained small business loans during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under President Trump, the Small Business Administration (SBA) had said that affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees weren\u2019t eligible for paycheck protection program loans. According to <\/span>Fox News Digital<\/span><\/a>, Planned Parenthood Federation of America alone had 600 employees when the agency started contacting its affiliates about the loans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In total, Planned Parenthood affiliates received $80 million in loans despite the group\u2019s activism arm \u2013 Planned Parenthood Action \u2013 <\/span>suggesting<\/span><\/a> that the CARES Act legislation was intended to preclude the abortion provider\u2019s affiliates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, SBA\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said that Planned Parenthood of Illinois, which received $3.8 million, \u201cmet PPP loan eligibility requirements.\u201d The OIG did, however, find eligibility issues with a Goodwill and YMCA organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

It added, \u201cWe also reviewed the three national organizations associated with the PPP loans to the aforementioned Planned Parenthood, Goodwill, and YMCA for potential affiliation with the PPP loan recipients. We found no affiliation between the national organizations and the loan recipients.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The OIG report clarified that SBA did not consider an organization to be an affiliate if it merely carried that name. \u201cControl, not membership, is the one standard by which affiliation is assessed,\u201d the report reads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0FBI agents question praying pro-life sidewalk advocate at Minnesota Planned Parenthood<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It later adds, \u201cAll three national organizations we reviewed have delegated autonomy to its members and recognized its members in its bylaws as independent organizations. Federal Register 20815 (III)(3)(b).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo assess affiliation, we reviewed documents such as bylaws, member agreements, articles of incorporation, tax documents, and membership requirements to determine if control or the potential for control existed. We looked for any instances of control through voting, management of other member organizations, or business interests of close relatives. We found that the national organizations did not have unique management agreements with member organizations, which could indicate control.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Echoing members of Congress\u2019 <\/span>previous criticisms<\/span><\/a>, pro-life groups responded by suggesting that these affiliates weren\u2019t true small businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement to Live Action News, the National Right to Life Committee said, \u201cThose funds were used to prop up Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider with over $1 billion in assets.\u201d The Committee added,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThe Paycheck Protection Program was designed to protect small businesses \u2014 not the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider with over 16,000 employees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tessa Longbons, a senior research associate at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, asked: \u201cDoes an organization with almost $2 billion in revenue really need pandemic relief from the government?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She added, \u201cPaycheck Protection Loans were supposed to keep small businesses afloat during COVID, yet Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the U.S., used this funding to achieve record profits during the pandemic, with over $1.7 billion in revenue, including more than $633 million in taxpayer dollars. According to their data for that time period, almost 97 percent of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy resolution activities were abortions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThink about the contrast,” Longbons noted. “In the same year that Americans were making sacrifices in order to protect the vulnerable and the elderly from COVID, Planned Parenthood performed the largest number of abortions ever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Biden administration has determined that Planned Parenthood did not flout COVID relief rules when its various affiliates obtained small business loans during the pandemic. Under President Trump, the Small Business Administration (SBA) had said that affiliates of larger organizations with more than 500 employees weren\u2019t eligible for paycheck protection program loans. 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