{"id":21292,"date":"2022-08-12T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21292"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:04:02","slug":"planned-parenthood-is-spending-so-much-money-lobbying-congress-for-abortions-it-just-set-a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/planned-parenthood-is-spending-so-much-money-lobbying-congress-for-abortions-it-just-set-a-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood is Spending So Much Money Lobbying Congress for Abortions It Just Set a New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21111\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21293\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/defundplannedparenthood40-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/defundplannedparenthood40-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/defundplannedparenthood40.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Micaiah Bilger &#8211; August 11, 2022<\/p>\n<p>The billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood appears desperate. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned\u00a0<i>Roe v. Wade<\/i>\u00a0in June, and the November election does not look good for pro-abortion Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood-action-fund-new-lobbying-record-post-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood-action-fund-new-lobbying-record-post-roe-v-wade\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660334069944000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0QtmzauD4bXMcIMi94n1Da\">A new report from Open Secrets<\/a>, which tracks lobbying and election spending, reports the abortion chain\u2019s political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, has spent an \u201cunprecedented\u201d amount of money on lobbying this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the second quarter of the year, the pro-abortion group reported spending a record $569,000 on lobbying U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would force taxpayers to fund abortions for the military and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2022\/07\/15\/house-democrats-pass-bill-to-legalize-abortions-up-to-birth-nationwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2022\/07\/15\/house-democrats-pass-bill-to-legalize-abortions-up-to-birth-nationwide\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660334069944000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2MCAIIl30xTx4MAr5Qq3PV\">force states to legalize the killing of unborn babies for basically any reason up to birth<\/a>, according to the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Other lobbying efforts included the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court and legislation that would punish pro-life pregnancy resource centers for supposedly \u201cmisleading\u201d advertising, the analysis found<\/p>\n<p>According to Open Secrets:<\/p>\n<p><em>Planned Parenthood Action Fund spent over $739,000 in the first half of 2022 on federal lobbying on issues including abortion access, with about $170,000 spent in the year\u2019s first quarter. This comes after the organization reported a 4,000% increase in donations after the Supreme Court released its Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization majority opinion in June.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The analysis pointed out that pro-life organizations also spent more on lobbying in the second quarter this year, but pro-abortion groups \u201cconsistently spend more money on federal lobbying\u201d than pro-life groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2022\/08\/11\/planned-parenthood-is-spending-so-much-money-lobbying-congress-for-abortions-it-just-set-a-new-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.lifenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micaiah Bilger &#8211; August 11, 2022 The billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood appears desperate. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned\u00a0Roe v. Wade\u00a0in June, and the November election does not look good for pro-abortion Democrats. A new report from Open Secrets, which tracks lobbying and election spending, reports the abortion chain\u2019s political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/planned-parenthood-is-spending-so-much-money-lobbying-congress-for-abortions-it-just-set-a-new-record\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planned Parenthood is Spending So Much Money Lobbying Congress for Abortions It Just Set a New Record<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[216,43,16007,16937,16936,204,13424,4165,630],"class_list":["post-21292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-who","tag-abortion","tag-dobbs-v-jackson","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-open-secrets","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-pro-life-groups","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21294,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions\/21294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}