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Liberty Counsel Asks Court to Allow Defunding of Planned Parenthood



San Francisco, CA – Today, Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief at the federal court of appeals in support of defunding Planned Parenthood.

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At issue is an Arizona law barring public funding for abortion clinics and doctors. While the Obama Administration (no surprise) is siding with Planned Parenthood in arguing that the new state law allegedly violates federal Medicaid requirements, Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief siding with the state’s rights to preserve and protect the life of the preborn child. “The District Court properly upheld the legislature’s actions and this Court should affirm the District Court’s decision,” Liberty Counsel’s brief says. Since the Supreme Court’s 1973 abortion decisions, “advances in medical science have established the truth of the pre-20th century view of the unborn child as fully, not merely ‘potentially,’ human,” Liberty Counsel told the court. In a similar case, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that Texas can cut funds to abortion providers. “Taxpayers should never be forced to violate their conscience and fund any abortion organization,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “In America, a preborn child is killed in the womb every 20 seconds. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s top abortion provider, takes the life of a preborn baby every 96 seconds. This is the modern holocaust and it must stop,” said Staver. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that from 2002-2009, pro-abortion groups received over one billion dollars from the federal government, plus state and local grants. Planned Parenthood alone received $657.1 million in federal grants and contracts during that time period.


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