Sen. Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, introduced a bill in the Senate Wednesday that would bar federal funding to Planned Parenthood after it received coronavirus relief funds.
The Dec. 17 letter says that in 2020 and 2021, at least 120 million Dollar Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were provided to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood program, it said. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky sent it to Isabel Casillas Guzman, then head of the Small Business Administration. Ernst told the Daily Caller News Foundation that his bill would prevent the nonprofit organization known for its pro-abortion efforts from receiving taxpayer funding. (Related: Exclusive: Joni Ernst puts more rift in ousting bureaucrats from Washington)
“The nation’s largest abortion provider should not receive a single penny of federal funding,” Ernst told DCNF. “Planned Parenthood has already been caught with its hand in the cookie jar, siphoning off millions of dollars in coronavirus relief funds earmarked for mother-and-child stores. We stand up for women and babies in lieu of abortion.”
Susan B. Anthony List gave Ernst an A+ rating. scorecard She received the same grade in her first semester, which began in 2015.
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Ernst’s law states that “federal funds may not be made available to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics.”
Family planning organizations in central and western New York advertised that they would receive $2.6 million in fully forgivable loans through the PPP in 2021. Newsletter An article informing you that your loan has been forgiven.
“On May 19, 2020, the SBA notified numerous PPFA member organizations that they had improperly applied for 38 PPP loans totaling more than $80 million,” Paul wrote in a Dec. 17 letter. Ta. “SBA has determined that these local affiliates of PPFA are not eligible to receive PPP loans based on applicable affiliation rules and size standards and that the loans they received should be returned.”
“Despite this decision, the SBA has approved additional loans totaling nearly $40 million in 2021,” Paul wrote. “Additionally, we authorized the forgiveness of at least 34 Family Planning PPP loans.”
The group has filed lawsuits against abortion restrictions in several red states, including challenging South Carolina’s “heartbeat” law, and the court’s ruling also removes taxpayer funding from Missouri. Secured. The state Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the measure to defund the Planned Parenthood Program violated provisions of the state constitution and the organization’s right to equal protection.
The organization also called virginity a “made-up concept” that was “created solely to control and shame people”, while also claiming that the term was not “inclusive” of the LGBT community. .
Margaret Sanger, the founder of the family planning system, made numerous statements, including stating in her 1913 book that Australia’s indigenous peoples were “the lowest known species of mankind”. He held racist views and made statements that belittled some minorities. book “What every girl should know,” she wrote in a 1939 paper. letter She didn’t want the fact that she was “trying to exterminate the black population” to be “out there.”
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