{"id":295755,"date":"2023-08-03T10:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295755"},"modified":"2023-08-04T00:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:57:45","slug":"planned-parenthood-money-lobbying-abortion-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-money-lobbying-abortion-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Planned Parenthood outspends all other abortion-related groups on lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, Planned Parenthood announced<\/a> its plan for a nationwide strategy to promote abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s<\/em> reversal. The corporation followed up with that quickly, spending more<\/a> in the second quarter of 2022 than in the organization’s entire history. Now, more data has been released showing that Planned Parenthood is still spending drastic amounts of money \u2014 more, in fact, than any other abortion-related group in the country.<\/p>\n

OpenSecrets reported<\/a> that Planned Parenthood spent $714,000 in federal lobbying in the first half of 2023 alone, a massive amount compared to other groups. NARAL Pro-Choice America has spent just $30,000 in the same period of time in federal lobbying.<\/p>\n

On the pro-life side, Right to Life spent $160,000, and Susan B. Anthony List spent $590,000 \u2014 still considerably less than Planned Parenthood’s spending.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood also had specific goals for that money, according to OpenSecrets. It worked to pass the Affordability is Access Act, the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act, and the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage Act \u2014 and also spent funds to keep the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (which would require medical care and protections for children who survive abortions) from passing.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Planned Parenthood has more lobbyists working for them than any other group \u2014 even as the number of lobbyists they have working for them decreases.<\/p>\n