Nothing says “how dare you cut off our federal (taxpayer) funding” like dropping $47 million on elections
Planned Parenthood to target GOP with $47 million midterm blitz
Planned Parenthood is pumping more than $47 million into the midterms as it looks to pick off Republicans who cut off funding to the abortion provider last year.
The near-record investment from Planned Parenthood Votes — an independent super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood — will fund ads and voter-outreach efforts targeting Republicans across 10 battleground House races in seven states, as well as in Maine and Michigan’s critical Senate contests, according to plans shared first with POLITICO. (snip)
Planned Parenthood Votes’ push comes after congressional Republicans stripped Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding for one year as part of their 2025 megalaw, exacerbating the group’s cash woes and leading to a spate of clinic closures.
$47 million. If you can drop $47 million like this you don’t have cash woes.
“We’re in the fight of our lives,” Sarah Standiford, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, said in an interview. And she said the group will do everything it can to “elect unapologetic champions of reproductive freedom” and “make sure members of Congress who voted against Planned Parenthood lose their jobs.”
Kinda goes to show that PP is all about abortion on demand, not any other type of care like they claim.
But the group believes abortion-rights messaging still has salience. They pointed to recent polling from the Democratic firm Navigator Research that shows pluralities of Americans view banning abortions and cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood as disqualifying positions.
“For millions of Americans, abortion is not a hypothetical election issue, it is part of their everyday lives,” Standiford said. “Abortion and defunding Planned Parenthood are not just highly mobilizing, they are in fact dealbreakers for voters across the political spectrum, and that’s how we’re going to be talking to voters about this issue.”
Well, if people want an abortion they can pay for it. If PP has $47 million to run on political ads they can afford to operate their unborn murder operation.
Congressional Republicans blocked Planned Parenthood from accessing what amounted to $700 million annually for non-abortion services like contraception and cancer screenings under the megalaw. But Republicans failed to muster the votes to extend the provision, and when the law lapsed in early July, the network of clinics regained access to hundreds of millions in federal funding.
Yeah, we all know elected Republicans are idiots. Thanks for letting us know.
Even as abortion has slipped as a top issue for voters, advocacy groups on both sides of the ongoing fight over reproductive care are pouring tens of millions into gubernatorial, congressional and further down-ballot races. Planned Parenthood Votes’ $47 million investment is its second-highest ever, just shy of the $50 million the group spent in 2022.
PP doesn’t seem to have cash flow issues, eh? Hey, maybe there should be an audit, though, to see where that money came from. If it came from federal allocations there should be some people arrested and prosecuted.
