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Planned Parenthood Gearing Up to Spend Millions for Obama Re-Election

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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and President Obama have such a cozy relationship that PPFA will be working overtime and spending millions to have their best friend re-elected. PPFA fears, rightly so, that if Romney is elected, the half a billion dollars that PPFA and its affiliates receive from the taxpayers will be in jeopardy.

The Obama administration is so all-in for Planned Parenthood that the President makes it personal. In July, Obama said : “Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood I think that’s a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices.”

Here is the Planned Parenthood election playbook:

  • PPFA President Cecile Richards will be a featured speaker at the Democratic convention. (Personally, I think it scandalous when the nation’s largest abortion provider is given a place of honor at a major national event.)
  • PPFA will host a private soiree at the Democratic convention titled “Sex, Politics & Cocktails.” (Wonder how to get an invite and see if they are, as one observer asked, going to be handing out free condoms.)
  • PPFA is planning a bus tour to support the Obama Presidency. (You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.)
  • The Planned Parenthood Action Fund plans to spend $3 million to air ads attacking Romney in the battleground states of Ohio and Virginia. According to the group’s political director, Elizabeth Shipp, “We’re going after voters known as ‘Obama defectors’, women who voted for Obama in 2008 and are not committed to voting for him in November or not planning to vote.” (Can Wisconsin be far behind?)

Struggling for survival — and that’s just where we like to see Planned Parenthood and President Obama.

Barbara Lyons

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