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Abortion provider profits off taxpayers

"A whistle-blower lawsuit contends that Planned Parenthood affiliates in California overcharged the state and federal governments by at least $180 million for birth-control pills, despite internal and external warnings that its billing practices were improper," The Los Angeles Times reported this month.

And it seems that the organization is making a pretty penny with overbilling and living off government funding. The University of California, San Francisco Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy found that the organization received an average of $11.99 for each cycle of pills, compared with $8.65 for other public health care providers and $8.26 for private providers.

Meanwhile, LifeSiteNews.com reported that according to Planned Parenthood's own 2005-06 annual report, it profited $55.8 million during that fiscal year. The report also revealed that $305.3 million in taxpayer funds was used for operations.

It's bad enough that taxpayers who don't believe in abortion have to see their money used for so-called health care providers. But allowing them to line their pockets with cash seems to be an additional insult.