Congress Needs to Go Beyond Investigating – to Cease Funding

Responding to a request from more than 70-members of Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has announced that it is launching a formal investigation of Planned Parenthood and others that promote abortion.  The lawmakers want to know exactly how these organizations are using our tax dollars.

 

Last month, a Planned Parenthood affiliate agreed to pay a $4.3 million fine in order to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud in Texas.  As the Alliance Defending Freedom have documented, the Texas case likely represents a pattern of abuse rather than an isolated incident.

 

Defunding America's largest abortion provider, also guilty of scamming a program for the poor, seems like a no-brainer when we are cutting defense spending and other important programs.  As you may recall, House Republicans tried to defund Planned Parenthood in 2011; but President Obama was willing to shut down the government in order to guarantee that your tax dollars continued subsidizing Planned Parenthood.  Thanks to Obama's generosity, Planned Parenthood received more than $540 million of your hard-earned money last year.

 

Responding to news of the GAO investigation, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) said, “Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide abortions clearly benefit from Uncle Sam, but there's no accounting to prove how they actually use that money.  This GAO report would shine a light on how our tax dollars are being spent.”

 

Beyond financial accountability – Doesn’t it bother you that 1.2 million babies are aborted every year in the U.S. alone?  That’s one every 26 seconds; 137 every hour; 3,304 every day; 100,516 every month.  If you’re an U.S. taxpaying citizen, you are guilty of shedding innocent blood.  When you appear before the Almighty Judge to give an account for all you said and did, don’t think for a minute that you’re going to hide behind – “But, Lord, I was just following your teaching to render to Caesar [the government] what is Caesar’s [taxes].”  I’m here to tell you – “That won’t fly!” … any more than the defense of Nazi war criminals claiming their innocents by saying – “I was just following orders.”  Funding abortion is rendering to Caesar’s agenda what is antagonistic to God’s higher command. 

 

Whether by commission or omission, we are part of the American holocaust.    

 

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel