[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 121]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          H.R. 61: HOLDING BIG ABORTION BUSINESSES ACCOUNTABLE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Big abortion businesses are getting rich, and they 
don't deserve or need our Federal tax dollars. That's why, on this 
first day of Congress, I introduced the Title X Abortion Provider 
Prohibition Act. It's H.R. 61.
  Planned Parenthood's 2011-2012 annual report showed they received a 
record $542 million in taxpayer funding while simultaneously performing 
a record number of abortions--actually, one every 94 seconds. So, in 94 
seconds, they perform that abortion, and they take in over $1,600 in 
Federal taxpayer money. Their funding has increased by 11 percent in 
the last 2 years even though former employees of Planned Parenthood say 
the organization promotes sex-selection abortions, facilitates human 
trafficking, engages in coercive behavior, and fails to maintain 
financial records in accordance with the law.
  I encourage my colleagues to support H.R. 61 so we can get ahold of 
these big abortion businesses, hold them accountable, clean up the 
title X grant program and end taxpayer funding of abortion.

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