Planned Parenthood Received $1.5 Billion in Taxpayer Funds

The Government Accountability Office shows that America’s biggest abortionist was given $1.5 billion in taxpayer funding from 2010 to 2012.

The report from the GAO only came to public after 70 congressmen asked the office to bring a report on federal funds being given through Title X to groups that are pushing for the increase of abortions in the United States.

The Hyde Amendment prohibits groups like Planned Parenthood from using federal funding for abortion, but the group gets money for offering other services such as STD testing. However, the funding can also be used to cover operations of the organization, thus indirectly funding the abortion services.

Several lawmakers expressed their concern over the report.

“Sixteen months ago, I joined seventy-one fellow members of Congress to demand a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into how Planned Parenthood, the largest abortionist in the world, uses our tax dollars,” wrote Rep. Tim Huelskamp wrote in a statement on Wednesday. “Last week, GAO finally completed their investigation and confirmed much of what we already knew—massive amounts of taxpayer dollars are being pocketed by a group that is snuffing out the lives of nearly 900 babies every day.”