According to a new report, Hillary Clinton has received significant support from the leaders of Planned Parenthood, even as the organization is mired in controversy over the selling of the body parts of aborted babies. It leads to the uncomfortable assumption that the selling of baby parts may be passively funding the Clinton campaign.
According to a FreeBeacon.com report by Bill McMorris,
the amount of money Hillary Clinton has received from Planned
Parenthood staff is twenty times more than all the other Democratic
presidential nominees combined. It is impossible to tie a direct link between the money
Planned Parenthood earned by selling baby parts to money given to the
Clinton campaign, mostly because the money trail generated by the
individual clinics selling the parts is not accessible to the public.
However, the principle is certainly there: Planned Parenthood has
benefited greatly from Clinton's support, and both the Clinton and Obama
administrations ensured the organization's practices were protected
from government scrutiny.
As a senator during the Bush years, Clinton
and other Democrats limited Republican efforts to closely regulate
abortion procedures. In return, Planned Parenthood executives and staff
used the fruit (and baby parts) of their labors to support Clinton's
current presidential run. McMorris provides more details:
She
(Clinton) received far more from Planned Parenthood employees than her
Democratic rivals, the former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I., VT), the former Rhode Island governor Lincoln
Chafee, and the former Virginia senator Jim Webb. Webb, O’Malley, and
Sanders have perfect pro-abortion voting records, while Chafee scored a
90, according to NARAL rankings. But Clinton raised 20 times as much
money from Planned Parenthood employees. Sanders was the only other
candidate to receive money from the abortion provider, garnering two
donations totaling $500.
Vicki Cowart, the CEO of Planned
Parenthood Rocky Mountains, Melissa Flournoy, the state director
of Louisiana Planned Parenthood, and Catherine Valentine, general
counsel for the San Jose-based Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, all
contributed the primary maximum of $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign. Clinton
led the entire presidential field with more than $46 million in total
fundraising.
Planned Parenthood's support of
the Democratic party comes as no surprise, but few realize the scope of
their influence. The organization gave $18 million to independent
political groups in
2014 and
2012,
according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Planned Parenthood
itself has given nearly $6 million to Democrats since 1990.
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