{"id":326436,"date":"2025-02-17T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326436"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:58:06","slug":"live-action-public-planned-parenthood-taxpayer-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/live-action-public-planned-parenthood-taxpayer-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Action asked the public if Planned Parenthood should get taxpayer funding. They answered."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Would you keep paying for a service like cable or internet if the cost went up 245%, but the service decreased? That&#8217;s the question Live Action asked to passersby for its latest &#8216;man on the street&#8217; video.<\/p>\n<p>At the onset, nearly everyone asked was in agreement: it doesn&#8217;t make sense to pay for a service if the cost goes sky-high while the services received decrease. But some people began to bristle when the scenario was swapped, and instead of a cable provider, the entity in question was Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOxRD4u5n78?si=z4GMqVh-4rLMomS3\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m mostly pro-choice, so that kind of affects how I feel about that,&#8221; explained one man. &#8220;It&#8217;s a tough one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of apples and oranges,&#8221; said another man. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about entertainment as opposed to talking about health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What kind of &#8216;health care&#8217; does the nation&#8217;s largest abortion business actually provide? Using research from Live Action News (which sources its data from Planned Parenthood&#8217;s public records), Live Action&#8217;s interviewer, Juan Garcia, breaks it down.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia explains that since 2000, taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood has increased 245%, and it now receives nearly $700 million in taxpayer dollars. During that time, abortions doubled, while everything else decreased. Notably, prenatal care decreased 68%, contraceptive services decreased 40%, and cancer screenings and prevention services plummeted nearly 59%. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/decade-planned-parenthood-abortions-high-health-plummet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Live Action News&#8217; complete analysis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia also notes that the name &#8216;Planned Parenthood&#8217; is deceptive, because the organization does nothing to really help people plan to parent \u2014 instead, their business model is abortion-based. This deception was illustrated when Garcia spoke with another man on the street, who posited that funding shouldn&#8217;t be cut from the organization because money should be spent to help bolster the declining birth rates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The name is misleading,&#8221; Garcia pointed out. &#8220;It&#8217;s not really about planning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, no, I don&#8217;t support that,&#8221; the man said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/victory-lawfare-daleiden-merritt-planned-parenthood-over\/\"><em>VICTORY: Lawfare against Daleiden and Merritt, who exposed Planned Parenthood, is over<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s history gets even more nefarious because it has continually <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-failed-follow-law-federal-funds\/\">failed to comply with mandatory reporting laws<\/a> regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-repeated-failure-reporting-sexual-abuse\/\">child sexual abuse<\/a>. The organization also has a history of other violations, including abuses, scandals, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/two-dozen-lawsuits-former-planned-parenthood-racism\/\">racism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-abuses-piling-up\/\">fraud<\/a>, privacy violations, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So,&#8221; Garcia asks, &#8220;What can be done?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer may lie in the newly-created <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/musk-ramaswamy-defunding-planned-parenthood-trump\/\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>, (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk. Tasked with the job of curtailing excess and needless spending, DOGE could \u2014 and should \u2014 set its sights on the $700 million taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of people Garcia later interviewed on the street agreed that DOGE could make a difference in the amount of taxpayer dollars the abortion corporation receives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the government is really bloated, and it needs to be reduced,&#8221; said a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia sums it up at the end of the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People shouldn&#8217;t be forced to pay for abortions and support organizations that fail to abide by mandatory reporting laws regarding child sexual abuse,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our federal dollars should not fund Planned Parenthood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/Vety0KE\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-325597\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-500x179.png 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1.png 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you keep paying for a service like cable or internet if the cost went up 245%, but the service decreased? 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