My tax-paying constituents emphatically do not want their hard-earned money being used to kill innocent life. Planned Parenthood currently has 87 regional affiliates with 817 health clinics in the U.S., with 173 performing surgical abortions, and many others--at least 131 and as many as 300--offering chemical abortions. Planned Parenthood itself has recently made plain the centrality of abortion to its mission, mandating that every Planned Parenthood affiliate have at least one clinic performing abortions within the next 2 years. Planned Parenthood reports that it's a not-for-profit organization and receives over $336 million in combined Federal, State, and local grants and contracts and had an excess of revenue over expenses of almost $112 million in 2006, $85 million in 2007, and $106 million in 2008. Planned Parenthood in California has privately admitted to overcharging the State and Federal Governments by at least $180 million for birth control pills, despite internal and external warnings that its billing practices were improper.
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The speaker is addressing concerns about federal funding for Planned Parenthood and its abortion services.
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