Okay, this is a learning moment and the point I make is not particularly a strong one. Well, I looked up a link, "do your taxpayer dollars pay for abortion"? That's a commonly asked question. It's a loaded question. I even caught Michael Medved talking about this. Medved said "tax dollars sent to planned parenthood do not pay for abortion". Is that correct? Well, those dollars go to PP, they've got to pay rent and so on so, in a manner, I think the expenses are in a sort of pool.
I don't put stock in "Fact Check" but this is what they say :
But Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the federal government for abortions anyway. According to the Department of Health and Human Service’s website, "by law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning." Medicaid funding is restricted by the Hyde Amendment to only abortion cases involving rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother.
https://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/
So, to me, yes, those monies do seem connected to abortion, besides that, Planned Parenthood makes millions. They don't need funding to begin with.
Live Action has this essay on it:
Here’s how your taxpayer dollars are funding abortion
By Carole Novielli | March 28, 2017 , 03:00pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published shocking information dispelling Planned Parenthood’s deceptive talking points that federal taxpayers are not funding abortions. This information is critical, because if the American taxpayers understood what their money really goes to, they would oppose federal funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider, whose abortion market share is almost 35 percent nationally.
Planned Parenthood’s Claims
Planned Parenthood and its supporters often claim that the federal tax dollars they receive are mere “reimbursements,†and that tax dollars do not pay for abortions. They base their claims in part on the federal Hyde Amendment, which, as Live Action News has previously pointed out, prevents federal dollars from funding most abortions through Medicaid but holds an exception to allow funding in cases involving rape, incest, and life of the mother.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/heres-how-your-taxpayer-dollars-are-funding-abortion/
And so the article goes on, it explains the situation pretty well. YES, medicaid does seem to pay for abortions, some. There must be certain conditions.
