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Bloomington Herald-Times, July 6, 2010
To the Editor:
The June 16 Bloomington City Council meeting was an exercise in hypocrisy. After vigorously defending the city's boycott of Arizona, the councilors gave several thousand dollars to Planned Parenthood.
Sadly, the Herald-Times didn't find it worthwhile to report that the city gave corporate welfare to Planned Parenthood, which reported an $85 million profit in its most recent fiscal report and took in over $1 billion in revenue.
What made it worse is that Planned Parenthood's own application for funds to distribute birth control states that "it is estimated that 14,930 women between the ages of 13 and 44 are in need of publicly funded contraceptives" in Monroe County.
It should be obvious that 13 year olds do not need publicly funded contraceptives, because it is illegal for anyone to have sex with a 13 year old girl. What these girls need is for the sexual predators abusing them to be locked up, rather than cover up the abuse with birth control.
This comes less than two years after the Bloomington Planned Parenthood was mired in a sex abuse scandal. The Bloomington City Council is now officially on record as endorsing sexual abuse, and they did it with your tax dollars.
Scott Tibbs.
Previous Articles:
♣ Bloomington Democrats subsidize sexual abuse -- June 22, 2010
♣ Speaking against Planned Parenthood funding -- June 21, 2010
♣ No corporate welfare for Planned Parenthood -- Bloomington Herald-Times, June 2, 2010
♣ Follow-up on corporate welfare for Planned Parenthood -- May 5, 2010
♣ No corporate welfare for Planned Parenthood -- Bloomington Herald-Times, April 29, 2010
♣ No corporate welfare for the merchants of death -- April 26, 2010
♣ Monroe County Council funds Planned Parenthood -- December 9, 2009
♣ Bloomington should stop subsidizing Planned Parenthood -- December 8, 2008
♣ Planned Parenthood seeks corporate welfare from county government -- November 29, 2008
♣ More on corporate welfare for Planned Parenthood -- July 24, 2008
♣ Sturbaum should have recused himself from Planned Parenthood vote -- July 10, 2008
♣ Billion-dollar corporation gets corporate welfare from Bloomington City Council -- June 20, 2008
♣ Deny Planned Parenthood's funding request -- May 14, 2008
♣ Time to end the city's subsidies to Planned Parenthood -- May 05, 2008
♣ Planned Parenthood’s request for corporate welfare -- June 18, 2007
♣ Planned Parenthood’s latest request for corporate welfare -- May 01, 2007
♣ Another option offered to Planned Parenthood funding -- June 12, 2007
♣ City Council should not fund Planned Parenthood -- May 15, 2007
♣ Funding social service agencies -- March 1, 2007
♣ City Council funds Planned Parenthood -- June 22, 2006
♣ No corproate welfare for the merchants of death, Part VIII -- June 19, 2006
♣ Reject Planned Parenthood's funding request -- June 01, 2006
♣ City Council gives $1500 to Planned Parenthood -- June 16, 2005
♣ Countdown to the showdown -- May 26, 2005
♣ Deny the subsidy to Planned Parenthood -- May 20, 2005
♣ Against city funding for Planned Parenthood -- July 08, 2004
♣ City Council gives $$ to Planned Parenthood -- June 19, 2004
♣ Sturbaum should recuse himself -- May 23, 2004
♣ Planned Parenthood's grant request represents cynical politics -- May 13, 2004
♣ Don't give tax money to Planned Parenthood -- May 08, 2004
♣ Stop divisive subsidy -- May 07, 2004
♣ Don't give tax money to Planned Parenthood -- April 30, 2004
♣ No tax money for Planned Parenthood -- June 19, 2003
♣ No corporate welfare for the merchants of death -- May 28, 2003
♣ City Council gives money to Planned Parenthood -- June 30, 2002
♣ There is no reason to force taxpayers to subsidize abortionists -- June 18, 2002
♣ Funding for Planned Parenthood opposed -- June 18, 2002
♣ Say no to grant for Planned Parenthood -- May 14, 2002
♣ Don't give tax money to abortionists -- May 05, 2002
♣ 'IDS' errs in not covering Planned Parenthood issue -- July 9, 2001
♣ Don't subsidize abortionists -- June 1, 1999
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