Palin supports Planned Parenthood funding cut

Examiner.com (National) Palin supports Planned Parenthood funding cut
The government shutdown deadline looms and lawmakers continue to disagree over a final budget deal. With a Friday deadline to either come up with a plan or face a partial government shutdown, there are many details that still need to be worked out. One of those details in the proposed plan is to cut all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides contraception, medical services and abortions at 800 clinics around the country. The measure would eliminate about $330 million through the end of September, but many Dems refuse to budge.

Sarah Palin recently released a statement in favor of cutting the federal spending.

"I join Rep. Mike Pence and others of conscience and common sense who are leading the charge to end the taxpayer funding of the nation's largest abortion provider," Palin said. "We recognize that not only is our country buried under Mt. McKinley-sized debt, but that the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves."

Although Planned Parenthood is already prevented by federal law from using federal dollars for abortion services, the nonprofit organization has been under intense scrutiny regarding its practices.

“They receive an average of $1 million taxpayer dollars per day; and regardless of what they had promised the public in their campaign ads, new investigative reporting shows that they are not really using our tax dollars to provide women with mammograms and other real health care services. It’s simply freeing up funds that they can then invest in their primary money-making endeavor: abortion,” Palin added.

The Hill reports that another four potential Republican hopefuls are on the record supporting the funding cuts: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and talk radio host Herman Cain.