https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/08/planned-parenthood-gets-more-than-600-million-dollars-a-year-from-the-federal-government/

The amount of funding that Planned Parenthood receives from the federal government continues to explode.  When Barack Obama’s second term ended, Planned Parenthood was getting about 500 million dollars from the federal government each year, but now that number has risen to more than 600 million dollars each year.  As a candidate for president in 2016, Donald Trump said that he would defund Planned Parenthood, but that has not happened.  In fact, it is not even an issue that is being debated on the national stage in 2020.  So Planned Parenthood will continue to be showered with money from the federal government no matter who wins the election in November, and hardly anyone in America is still talking about how deeply wrong this is.

Planned Parenthood gets more money from the federal government than anyone else by far.  If that funding ever stopped, more than a third of Planned Parenthood’s budget would be wiped out and the organization would instantly be in massive financial trouble.

By handing them hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the federal government is implicitly endorsing what they are doing, and that is a national disgrace which will never be erased.

Of course some people are pointing to the fact that Planned Parenthood is no longer receiving Title X funding as a major victory.  Last year, new regulations instituted by the Trump administration caused Planned Parenthood to decide to opt out of the Title X program…

    Title X is a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventive services to low-income Americans at little or no cost.

    Last week, Planned Parenthood announced that rather than comply with the Trump administration’s new regulations relating to Title X’s federal family planning program, the abortion giant would stop participating in the program altogether unless the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in to block the regulations.

    The court did no such thing, and now Planned Parenthood will no longer participate in the program.

By opting out of Title X, Planned Parenthood lost about 60 million dollars a year.

And that is certainly a good thing.

But that reduction in funding has been more than made up for by a massive increase in other federal funding.  The following comes from a piece authored by Warren Cole Smith…

    In Planned Parenthood’s FY 2018, the first year that would reflect a Trump Administration budget, Planned Parenthood received about $563.8-million in taxpayer funding. That level was a record for any administration in history, significantly more funding than Planned Parenthood got during any year of the Obama Administration. In fact, during the last year of the Obama Administration, funding had actually dropped by about $10-million, to the lowest level since 2014.

    But in 2019, the Trump Administration broke its own record by a wide margin. Government reimbursements and grants to Planned Parenthood went up by more than $50-million, to $616.8-million. That funding level represents the single largest one-year jump in funding for Planned Parenthood in history.

So what this means is that Planned Parenthood is getting much more money from the federal government under the Trump administration than it ever did under the Obama administration.

Just think about that for a moment.

I used to tell people that it was such a horrible thing that Planned Parenthood was getting about 500 million dollars a year under the Obama administration, but until I did some research I did not even realize that Planned Parenthood is now getting more than 600 million dollars a year from the federal government under the Trump administration.

So yes, we should be thankful that Planned Parenthood has opted out of Title X funding, but with overall federal funding still rising we are in even worse shape then we were before.  I really like how Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins summarized where things currently stand…

    “The Trump Administration needs to uphold their promise to pro-life Americans and re-direct all current taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, to community health care centers that practice only non-violent healthcare. While we are grateful the Trump administration cut off the abortion Goliath’s illegal access to Title X funding, $600 million is left to go. The nation’s number one abortion vendor broke all previous records in taking money from taxpayers this year. Our Healthcare dollars should be invested with those who extend life and end suffering, not kill for a living,” she observed.

For decades, Republican members of Congress have gotten our votes by pledging to be “pro-life”, but every year most of those Republicans vote for budget bills that give Planned Parenthood hundreds of millions of dollars.

Every time they vote for such budget bills, they are literally cursing America.

And a loaf of bread cost more during Trump's administration than Obama's, so lets blame Trump for that too!

And a loaf of bread cost more during Trump's administration than Obama's, so lets blame Trump for that too!

Nonsensical (and desperate) argument.  Trump could have done something ... veto spending bills that have any funding for Planned Parenthood.  I doubt they'd have enough votes to override.  And then you have a government shutdown until it gets defunded.

This is in fact his fault that he's done nothing.

Trump is a fraud.  

hmmm ... this guy seemed to win in court
https://www.miamiherald.com/article208905159.html

I bet that if you took the money that you would have paid in taxes and put it aside into a separate savings account and declare that you'll hand it over the minute Planned Parenthood is defunded, they can't get you for evasion because then it's obvious that you're not doing it just to not pay your taxes, but truly out of principle.

No offense meant, but if the government really wants to get you, no power on earth can stop it. Legal protections are ultimately no more than a polite fiction to be dispensed with when it suits their proprietor to do so.

You have said that Trump is a fraud, and I have said the very same thing. But he is something even worse: a lazy bastard. He lets his Jєω son-in-law do his thinking for him, and he hasn't even troubled to learn who populates his Cabinet departments or how their ordinary everyday functioning burdens the lives and blights the hopes of actual (i.e., non-Jєωιѕн) Americans. All that his admirers hereabouts ever seem to do is endlessly repeat that he wasn't Hillary and he isn't Biden or Kamasutra hαɾɾιs. Yet if, as is likely, his performance in office continues to worsen, pretty soon I won't be the only one replying "so what?" to his fans' knee-jerk defense.

But I've been told that it's a mortal sin to sit out the election/write in a vote for Jesus Christ.   

This destroys the double effect argument for Trump.

How so?