So, Ms Ingraham, if you are going to use the idea that money is fungible, so that even if the federal tax dollars that go to Planned Parenthood are earmarked for a variety of women's health services excluding (by law) abortions, it still means that federal taxes are paying for abortions, too …
… then does that mean that tax dollars that go to religious organizations for their public services (adoption services, hospitals, universities, faith-based programs) are thus fungible and are paying for church building upkeep and pastors' salaries? Because I really don't think you or Fox News want to go there.
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I’m not anti-abortion, but the idea that funds from an organisation doesn’t go to ‘x’ is something the organisation needs to show/prove.
The reason is they need to show that those hypothicated funds (i.e. earmarked) do not free up money that is channelled into the banned activity. Eg – Someone spends $50 on’good’ stuff’ and $50 on ‘bad’ (from a total income of $100 obviously). Rich uncle gives $30 on condition it is spent on ‘Good’ stuff.. Person spends Uncles $30 on Good, then adds $30 of his own, so has extra Good stuff this week. However that means he has $70 of his own money to spend on Bad stuff.
Does PP show that the Federal money goes over and above its ‘normal’ money.
The alternative is the US Right grows up
@LH, if I understand you, you’re saying, “If PP is getting $X from the Feds, and spends $Y on abortion and $Z on non-abortion, then if X>Z some of the money is going to abortion.”
If I parse the article properly, the Feds provide $542 million, and non-government sources provide $311.5 million. Only 13% of its revenue is for abortion services. $311.5 million is significantly larger than 13% than $853.5 million.
(A particularly pernicious part of the slander against PPA is that they “make 400-something million off of the abortion procedure.” That makes it sound like profit, thus the whole “abortion industry” terminology used by the Right. But PPA is a non-profit organization. The money (far less than $400MM, but even use that number) is what is being *spent* on abortion services, not what’s going into some magical set of coffers that allow the PPA execs to go swimming in pools full of greenbacks.)