Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
Floor Speech
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Ms. FOXX. Thank you, Madam Chair. I came tonight to support the Pence amendment.
I just came from my office where I was reading and answering my mail. My tax-paying constituents emphatically do not want their hard-earned money being used to kill innocent life.
Planned Parenthood currently has 87 regional affiliates with 817 health clinics in the U.S., with 173 performing surgical abortions, and many others--at least 131 and as many as 300--offering chemical abortions. Planned Parenthood itself has recently made plain the centrality of abortion to its mission, mandating that every Planned Parenthood affiliate have at least one clinic performing abortions within the next 2 years.
Planned Parenthood reports that it's a not-for-profit organization and receives over $336 million in combined Federal, State, and local grants and contracts and had an excess of revenue over expenses of almost $112 million in 2006, $85 million in 2007, and $106 million in 2008. Planned Parenthood in California has privately admitted to overcharging the State and Federal Governments by at least $180 million for birth control pills, despite internal and external warnings that its billing practices were improper.
My colleague from Indiana gave also a lot of statistics about what the problems are with Planned Parenthood. Despite it being a billion-dollar-a-year corporation, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million reported in its 2008-2009 annual report, 33 percent of that income from government grants and contracts, that is, from taxpayer dollars. Of that, $53 million is from title X. So from these other government sources they're getting $310 million.
We are not going to be stopping Planned Parenthood from giving true health care to women and children. We know that the vast majority of Americans oppose abortion. Over 60 percent oppose any money coming from taxpayer receipts for abortions.
My colleague from New York talked about this being a bill of attainder and said that this is a punishment. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm less concerned about the potential that this is a punishment for Planned Parenthood, but I am very concerned about the punishment inflicted on millions of innocent lives when they are violently deprived of their lives through abortion in Planned Parenthood clinics.
I yield back the balance of my time.
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