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Planned Parenthood Denied $397K in Tax Funding in Tennessee

The Planned Parenthood abortion business has lost its battle to keep a $397,000 taxpayer-funded contract in Memphis, Tennessee after pro-life advocates contacted members of the county commission requesting that the grant be given to someone else.

Shelby County Health Department director Yvonne Madlock had announced in September that , after significant lobbying from pro-life advocates, Christ Community Health Services would receive the $397,000 contract with the county for family planning rather than Planned Parenthood. Then, in a 6-4 party-line vote, the Shelby County Commission decided to postpone its decision and allow Planned Parenthood more time to make its case that it should continue receiving the tax money.

Now, the Shelby County Commission voted 9-4 on Monday to give Christ Community Health Services the family planning contract instead of renewing it with Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region. However, the Memphis Commercial newspaper reports that the abortion business has a pending bid protest with the county government.

ACTION: Contact the Shelby County Commission at Source 6 and thank them for voting to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Ref. Source 2

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Planned Parenthood President: My 400K Salary a "Non-Issue"

Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, gave an interview to a newspaper in Oregon during a recent trip there to support a local affiliate of the abortion business. During the interview, Richards defended her exorbitant salary, saying it is a "non-issue."

The Willamette Week newspaper asked her, "In the efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, a lot was made of your salary-close to $400,000 per year. Planned Parenthood declined to comment on it. Why?"

"It's public record. It always has been," Richards responded. "I work hard for my salary, and I think that's a red herring. Planned Parenthood is the most cost-effective provider of family planning services in this country. The far right has done everything they can to undermine us and to create non-issues, which I think that is."

The high salary is not surprising given that the abortion business makes more than $1 billion in income. First achieved in its 2006-2007 fiscal year, the abortion business now regularly brings in more than $1 billion. That's because the abortion business, that year, was doing more abortions than ever before. Its annual report showed an increase in the number of provided abortions from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006. Ref. Source 2

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United Way Sent $1.9 Million to Planned Parenthood in 2008

Each fall, United Way focuses on fundraising campaigns. Most people encounter these requests for giving through their workplace. The United Way encourages individuals to donate to a variety of local charitable organizations or to the United Way itself.

Each local United Way determines whom they will support through their grant programs and their lists of charitable organizations in the area. While most United Way organizations claim they do not fund programs for abortion services, in truth, some do support Planned Parenthood or other abortion-advocate agencies. The national United Way does fund Planned Parenthood; their website states:

No United Way funds are currently used, or have ever been used to support abortion services. Several United Way partner agencies provide professional family and individual counseling services that include professional counseling on pregnancy-related problems.

United Way funded programs through Planned Parenthood include community health maintenance, e.g. Communicable disease prevention; medical care service; family planning; health education; public awareness services; and family preservation and strengthening services, e.g. Counseling and family life education. Nationally in 2008, local United Ways distributed an estimated $1.9 million to Planned Parenthood agencies. Ref. Source 7

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Planned Parenthood Caught Misleading on Birth Control Pills

The Planned Parenthood abortion business has been caught misleading Mississippi residents about the availability of the birth control pill should state residents approve Amendment 26 this November. The ballot proposal has the state of Mississippi defining the beginning of human life as at conception.

The pro-life group Live Action responded to public claims from Planned Parenthood attacking the "personhood amendment," which will appear on the November 8 ballot asking state residents: "Should the term "person" be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof?"

A Salon story several days ago claims, "By its own logic, the initiative would almost certainly ban common forms of birth control like the IUD and the morning-after pill, call into question the legality of the common birth-control pill, and even open the door to investigating women who have suffered miscarriages."

Kay Scott, CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast has said, "It's so extreme it could even ban common methods of birth control like the pill."

But the activists at Live Action released audio and transcripts of calls to Planned Parenthood, legitimate health care providers and local pharmacies asking if the birth control pill would still be available after November's vote - even if Mississippi residents approve Amendment 26.

"So far as we know, birth control will still be available," a Planned Parenthood official in Hattiesburg told the caller. Ref. Source 6

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Planned Parenthood Accused of Massive Medicaid Fraud in Texas

The Planned Parenthood abortion business in yet another state is facing accusations of massive Medicaid fraud related to billing for abortions and birth control - at a time when Congress is launching an investigation.

According to pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, a former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has filed a whistleblower's complaint with the Attorney General of Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice. The PPGC employee alleges that the abortion business engaged in an elaborate Medicaid fraud scheme.

Stanek writes:

Karen Reynolds, who worked as a "health care assistant" from 1999 to 2009 at the Lufkin, Texas, branch of the affiliate formerly known as Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, has submitted company memos and emails to support her charge that PPGC has engaged in a systemwide scheme to bilk Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women's Health Program of tens of millions of dollars over the course of at least a decade.

Reynolds alleges bosses trained employees to bill government agencies for medical and family planning services not rendered, for services no reasonable medical personnel would provide, and - the biggest bombshell - for abortion-related services fudged to appear as if they were not. Ref. Source 2

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Cain Hits Planned Parenthood as Racist, Abortion Biz Responds

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went after the Planned Parenthood abortion business in a weekend interview on Face the Nation, saying the abortion giant was founded on racist roots and continues that racism today.

The host of the CBS program asked Cain about comments he made in January saying he opposes the racist agenda of Planned Parenthood, the nation's biggest abortion business.

"I absolutely would defund Planned Parenthood - not because I don't believe in planning parenthood, [but because] Planned Parenthood as an organization is an absolute farce on the American people," he said then. "People who know the history of Margaret Sanger, who started Planned Parenthood, they know that the intention was not to help young women who get pregnant to plan their parenthood. No - it was a sham to be able to kill black babies."

In the new interview, Cain says, "I still stand by that. If people go back and look at the history and look at Margaret Sanger's own words, that's exactly where that came from What I"m saying is, Planned Parenthood isn't sincere about wanting to try to counsel them not to have abortions." Ref. Source 8

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Planned Parenthood Charges Dropped as Sebelius Destroyed Records

A Kansas judge ordered some of the 107 charges filed against Planned Parenthood for engaging in illegal abortions and covering up those cases thanks to the destruction of records that took place during the Sebelius administration.

The case with 107 charges against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri came about when former state attorney general Phill Kline brought the charges after obtaining evidence in patient records showing Planned Parenthood committed illegal late-term abortions and then manufactured documents to cover up their crimes. The charges allege the abortion business potentially engaged in illegal abortions and violated state record-keeping laws.

Kline, as the then Johnson County District Attorney, filed 107 charges, including 23 felonies, against the abortion business for allegedly violating state law.

However, news surfaced last month when AP reported that the Kansas health department in 2005 destroyed the state late-term abortion reports at the heart of the felony charges against Planned Parenthood. The pre-trial hearing for felony "false-writing" charges had been scheduled for Monday Oct. 24, Since the original reports have now been discovered as destroyed, the Johnson County District attorney's office had asked for a delay so they could engage other witnesses to verify the authenticity of copies of the state reports. Ref. Source 4

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Planned Parenthood Accused of Massive Medicaid Fraud in Texas

The Planned Parenthood abortion business in yet another state is facing accusations of massive Medicaid fraud related to billing for abortions and birth control - at a time when Congress is launching an investigation.

According to pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, a former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has filed a whistleblower's complaint with the Attorney General of Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice. The PPGC employee alleges that the abortion business engaged in an elaborate Medicaid fraud scheme.

Stanek writes:

Karen Reynolds, who worked as a "health care assistant" from 1999 to 2009 at the Lufkin, Texas, branch of the affiliate formerly known as Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, has submitted company memos and emails to support her charge that PPGC has engaged in a systemwide scheme to bilk Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women's Health Program of tens of millions of dollars over the course of at least a decade.

Reynolds alleges bosses trained employees to bill government agencies for medical and family planning services not rendered, for services no reasonable medical personnel would provide, and - the biggest bombshell - for abortion-related services fudged to appear as if they were not. Ref. Source 6