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Today, Live Action President Lila Rose put\u00a0out a memo to members of Congress<\/a> – including Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell –\u00a0 urging them to fully investigate and completely redirect the taxpayer funding of America’s abortion giant.<\/p>\n

Rose emphasizes the horrors committed inside Planned Parenthood facilities, including the barbaric killing and illegal abandonment of babies born alive after attempted abortions, writing:<\/p>\n

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It is unconscionable that taxpayers are still being forced to fund the chief provider of abortions in America, despite the vast body of evidence proving their continual abuses and illicit activities. … We urge you to further review the myriad of abuses committed at Planned Parenthood clinics around the nation and take action on behalf of American taxpayers, women and children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rose says\u00a0that taxpayer dollars should, instead, be redirected to facilities that provide real healthcare to women:<\/p>\n

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The over half a billion dollars Planned Parenthood receives annually would be put to far better use at local hospitals and clinics that provide more comprehensive health services to women and aren\u2019t involved in such abuses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Speaking of one particular abuse that took place at a San Jose\u00a0Planned Parenthood abortion mill,\u00a0where a baby boy was born alive after an abortion and then killed<\/a>.\u00a0Rose states:<\/p>\n

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Medical research is never advanced on the broken bodies of intentionally killed human beings. This boy \u2013 and others like him \u2013 have been brutalized, even after being born alive. Instead of following California and federal law, which required Planned Parenthood to treat this baby boy as any other prematurely born infant \u2013 with medical care \u2013 technicians in the Planned Parenthood facility sliced into this child’s face to harvest his brain and then threw his body into trash. While his legs and feet dangled, O\u2019Donnell described how she had to lift the lid of the trash can to push the baby boy all the way in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rose also emphasizes that Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding must be redirected, due to its violation of multiple federal laws and regulations. As a highly taxpayer-funded organization, Planned Parenthood must be stopped by Congress in its blood-soaked tracks, and prevented from committing further atrocities through the complete and immediate redirection of funds to health clinics that truly serve women.<\/p>\n

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Rose addresses claims made by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, noting\u00a0that it is “astounding” that Richards did not address\u00a0the fate of infants who are born alive inside Planned Parenthood clinics.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0also narrows in on Richards’ false claim to Congress that Planned Parenthood receives nothing but reimbursement costs for the baby body parts they harvest, stating:<\/p>\n

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Additionally, while Ms. Richards asserts that \u201caffiliates report that these amounts were intended to recover only their costs,\u201d her own executives disagree with her \u2014 and quite blatantly. Dr. Mary Gatter, President of Planned Parenthood\u2019s Medical Directors\u2019 Council and Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley, discussed the baby body part business at Planned Parenthood\u2019s Los Angeles clinic. She said, \u201c[L]ogistically it was very easy for us, we didn\u2019t have to do anything<\/strong>. There was compensation for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not having to do anything and yet being compensated does not ring of recovering costs as Ms. Richards asserts. What reasonable costs, exactly, are associated with doing nothing?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Richards’ letter demonstrates a lack of reliability throughout, giving yet another reason why women cannot trust Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

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Please do not give up on the one million Americans Live Action represents through our supporters, or the tens of millions of pro-life Americans, who want to see women cared for and children protected. Planned Parenthood must be called to account for their violations of law \u2013 perhaps most horrifyingly, their almost-certain violation of the federal Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. As these born-alive babies are persons under federal law, they are deserving of real legal protections \u2013 something Planned Parenthood undoubtedly fails to give them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To read the\u00a0letter in its entirety, visit this page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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