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Cardinal urges defunding Planned Parenthood

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13 August 2015
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Cardinal Sean O'Malley

Call for action: President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors Cardinal Sean O'Malley. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring

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Call for action: President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors Cardinal Sean O’Malley.
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THE head of the United States bishops’ pro-life committee urged senators on August 3 to take the federal money that goes to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and instead fund women’s health care providers that do not promote abortion.

“It has long been troubling to many Americans that the nation’s largest abortion network, performing over a third of all abortions, receives over half a billion taxpayer dollars a year,” Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said.

“This concern has rightly grown in recent years,” he wrote in a letter to the senators.

The cardinal, who is chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged senators to support S. 1881, a measure that would defund Planned Parenthood and its affiliates.

Cardinal O’Malley’s letter followed the release in mid-July of videos of the organisation’s officials filmed undercover by a nonprofit California-based organization called the Centre for Medical Progress.

“The most recent revelations about Planned Parenthood’s willingness to traffic in feotal tissue from abortions, and to alter abortion methods not for any reason related to women’s health but to obtain more ‘intact’ organs, is the latest demonstration of a callousness toward women and their unborn children that is shocking to many Americans,” he said.

In two of the videos, top Planned Parenthood physicians describe how abortions are carried out to best salvage fetal tissue and organs for researchers and described a range of prices paid for different body parts.

A third video was of an interview with a technician talking about harvesting fetal body parts and included graphic footage.

Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million of its $1.3 billion annual budget from federal and state programs.

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According to 2013 data, the latest available, Planned Parenthood says abortions represent three per cent of the total services its facilities provide, which include dispensing birth control and doing some women’s health screenings.

In addition to Republicans in the House and Senate pushing for an end to federal funding of Planned Parenthood, several states have launched investigations into the organization.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement said that “allegations that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.”

 She later apologised for “the tone” the physicians used in describing abortion procedures and also argued the videos had been heavily edited to distort the truth.

In his letter, Cardinal O’Malley added: “The Catholic Church comes to this issue from a perspective rooted in experience. Catholic charitable agencies and pregnancy help centres have helped countless pregnant women find life-affirming alternatives to abortion.”

Other Catholic leaders across the country have called for defunding Planned Parenthood.

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