On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed a budget framework bill that could lead to the
defunding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The framework is not a budget itself but
rather a guide for the budget process.

Calls have been growing louder in recent months for federal funding of Planned Parenthood to be
withdrawn. This week’s move by Congress makes the chances of it actually happening in the near
future a lot more realistic.

Planned Parenthood’s woes don’t stop there. In recents days, the New York Times published a
damning report detailing dangerous and dismal clinic conditions at various abortion clinics operated
by the group across the US. The article titled “Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in
Crisis” is extraordinary for lots of reasons, aside from the horrific things it discloses. Most surprising
of all is the fact that the New York Times is actually publishing stories that put Planned Parenthood
on the defence. Not long ago, it would have been unthinkable for New York’s ‘paper of record’ to
blow the whistle on any inconvenient truths at all concerning Planned Parenthood.

Clearly things have gotten so bad and standards have dropped so low at Planned Parenthood that
some in the mainstream media have come to the realisation that their own credibility is on the line if
they continue covering for or explaining away all the wrongdoing and dangerous practices taking
place.

The New York Times piece references “scores of allegations” of botched abortions and substandard
care at Planned Parenthood clinics. Some of the other shocking details contained in the report
include: inexperienced peers training new employees; intense pressure on staff to attract more
clients and generate more income; staff recounting stories of seeing children as young as 12 and 13
years old receive abortions, sometimes because a family member impregnated them; clients given
wrong meds and others given expired pain meds; buildings in desperate need of repairs including
backed up sewage with clients vomiting from the stench; staff who reported discrimination or poor
clinic practices being fired.

Nothing in the New York Times report will come as any surprise to members of the pro-life
movement in the US. What’s really encouraging though is that the mainstream media are finally
beginning to pose some very uncomfortable questions to Planned Parenthood.
Currently, Planned Parenthood receives $699.3 million annually or almost $2 million per day in
taxpayer dollars. With Congress starting to pay more attention to the issue and the dark revelations
about Planned Parenthood continuing to mount, the day is hopefully very close at hand when the
largest abortion provider in the US is finally and forever stripped of taxpayer funding.