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Planned Parenthood Prez Gets Grant for Pro-Abortion "Catholic" Group

The president of the Planned Parenthood Breton business is facing accusations she used her position on the board of directors of the Ford Foundation to enable a grant for a heretical pro-abortion organization that bills itself as a Catholic group.

The Ford Foundation gave a grant to "Catholics for Choice" to the tune of $300,000 to provide "general support to assist Catholic policy makers, groups that empower women of color and others disproportionately impacted by public policies that affect reproductive health care options."

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards was named a trustee of the Ford Foundation last February and chairs the board's Finance Committee. Ford trustees serve six-year terms, and may be re-elected to the board for a second term. The 15-member board of trustees sets broad policy related to the foundation's issue areas and geographic focus and oversees its investments and grants.

David Schmidt of Live Action, the pro-life group that exposed practices at Planned Parenthood like covering up cases of s-xual abuse and helping sex traffickers arrange abortions for their victims, condemned the grant.

"Catholics for Choice is an organization that advocates for the right to abort one's child - against established Catholic church teaching. While the organization has twice been condemned as a fraud by U.S. Catholics bishops but they boast a significant budget funded mostly by a select group of foundations," he said.

Schmidt said he was not surprised that Richards steered the grant to "Catholics for Choice" given that the Ford Foundation's finance committee is influential in determining the final recipients of grants. Ref. Source 7

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Catholic Schools Told They Can't Teach Abortion is Wrong

Planned Parenthood. NARAL Pro-Choice America. EMILY's List. They"re among the most shameless advocates for the killing of unborn babies in the womb. Previous articles in this series have discussed their zealotry to keep abortion legal and strike down any protections that exist for the unborn.

Another group aggressively defending the killing of the unborn is the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center's focus is the courts, where it champions the unlimited right of an abortionist to kill an unborn child. Ref. Source 2