Congress investigates everyone, but never Planned Parenthood. PP has its hand in the public till. Recent facts and allegations continue to substantiate my previous term -- "slimey" -- to describe Planned Parenthood. Michelle Malkin has posted an important article (my underlining):
. . . Here’s an idea for
all the hand-wringing GOP strategists in Washington wondering what it
will take to win back disgusted economic and social conservatives: How
about a Republican presidential candidate who will talk about the
tax-subsidized abortion industry the way McCain talks about the oil
industry? |
In April, the annual report for Planned Parenthood Federation of
America revealed that the abortion giant had a total income of $1.02
billion — with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers kick
in more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at
both the state and federal levels. That’s a third of Planned
Parenthood’s budget.
And what market-distorting results do we get for those government incentives? In 2006 alone: 289,750 abortions.
Oil
execs, tobacco execs, banking execs, pharmaceutical-company execs, and
baseball players have all been hauled up before Congress for highly
publicized whippings by crusading lawmakers. But the executives of
Planned Parenthood have escaped government scrutiny and public
accountability for their predatory behavior, dangerous medical
practices, deception, and deadly windfall.
In Washington, D.C.,
the family of 13-year-old Shantese Butler filed a $50 million suit
against Planned Parenthood after a botched abortion left the girl
permanently injured and infertile. Students for Life of America reports
that Shantese was left with “severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal
injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation
and a small bowel tear.” In addition, parts of the unborn child were
found inside Shantese’s abdomen.
In Nebraska, Planned Parenthood
refused to disclose the terms of a settlement with another victim whose
botched abortion resulted in a perforated uterus, massive blood loss,
an emergency hysterectomy, permanent infertility, seizures, and
lifelong pain and suffering. According to the suit obtained by Life News,
the woman instructed the abortionist and his assistants to stop, but
was told: “We can’t stop.” The Planned Parenthood employees held her
down to complete the procedure.
Where’s the subpoena-wielding
Henry Waxman? Can Orrin Hatch spare a moment from investigating the New
England Patriots to probe Planned Parenthood’s efforts to advise
underage teens on how to circumvent parental notification laws to
secretly obtain RU-486, the abortion drug cocktail? Where is the
concern for the women and children who were mistreated by Planned
Parenthood clinics in Kansas, where Johnson County District Attorney
Phill Kline has filed a 107-count criminal complaint against the
abortion racket, with charges ranging from falsifying documents to
performing illegal late-term abortions?
And where are Nancy
Pelosi and the For the Children brigade to investigate the shocking
evidence of Planned Parenthood’s nefariousness exposed by undercover
student journalist Lila Rose?
Last year, Rose caught a Planned
Parenthood official encouraging a female minor to evade statutory-rape
laws in order to obtain an abortion in California. In February, Rose
released undercover tapes of her discussion with an Idaho Planned
Parenthood official eager to accept money from a racist donor who
wanted his funds earmarked for aborting black babies. In April, she
released video of clinic officials in New Mexico and Oklahoma willing
to take money from a blatantly racist donor. One Planned Parenthood
staffer admits that “for whatever reason, we’ll accept the money.”
For
whatever reason, Washington has turned a blind bipartisan eye to this
bloody, government-funded business — and pro-life, limited-government
conservatives in the Beltway have gone along with subsidizing it.
“Obscene profits,” indeed.