No one quarrels with these organizations' right to oppose President Bush and his policies. What would surprise most of us, I think, is that we've all been funding them. The overwhelming majority of this money flowed to Planned Parenthood chapters. HHS awards to Planned Parenthood ostensibly cover genuine program services such as disease prevention and family planning counseling. However, Planned Parenthood is also a vocal political advocacy group.
Money is fungible.
It is impossible to fund only part of an organization s activities. Federal money for an organization s activities allows it to spend its own funds on other activities, such as political advocacy. Taxpayers effectively subsidize Planned Parenthood s activism. This database is available to the general public, but it is rather cumbersome. They are the American Medical Women's Association the National Asian Women's Health Organization, and the National Black Women's Health Project.