I thought Obama was above special interests?

There is a New York Times piece about Obama and his votes in the Illinois State Senate. Obama had a number of times where he voted "Present" on important issues.

One of those was an issue involving abortion. Knowing that Obama favors abortion up until the point of natural delivery (opposing a ban on partial birth abortion and even opposing a measure that would have required Doctors to care for a child if an abortion failed and the baby was born ALIVE), he still voted "Present" on some important abortion legislation. Why?

Because Planned Parenthood told him to that's why.

Here is a quote from the article.

Pam Sutherland, president of Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, said Mr. Obama was one of the senators with a strong stand for abortion rights whom the organization approached about using the strategy. Ms. Sutherland said the Republicans were trying to force Democrats from conservative districts to register politically controversial no votes.

Ms. Sutherland said Mr. Obama had initially resisted the strategy because he wanted to vote against the anti-abortion measures.
“He said, ‘I’m opposed to this,’” she recalled.
But the organization argued that a present vote would be difficult for Republicans to use in campaign literature against Democrats from moderate and conservative districts who favored abortion rights.

289,650+ victims in 2006

Michelle Malkin has a great syndicated piece today where she discusses the congress’ desire to berate all kinds of sports figures and industry executives but not the executives behind Planned Parenthood who are being sued and investigated on a whole list of civil and criminal issues. Quite frankly it’s revolting. Any story I read about this horrific industry just leaves me with a hollow, gut wrenching feeling in the pit of my stomach. And rightly so. As MM points out, in 2006, this tax payer subsidized “business” performed 289,650 abortions. Over a quarter of a million children were killed and we subsidized it to the tune of 336 million dollars.

You can call or write your senators with the information here.

This link will provide you with your individual congressman’s websites which should contain contact information for their local and Washington offices. Just to be safe. Call both.

Read the article. Get mad. Call your elected officials who are signing the checks.

*** update: This link is an even better way to contact your representatives.

Planned Parenthood is not only using YOUR tax dollars, but getting RICH off of them

That's right! Your tax dollars are not only being used to fund abortions but they are getting rich doing it. Total assets of PP are over $1 billion. How sad is that.

Check out this piece by MM and then sign the petition to stop tax funding to PP.

Here is the link for the petition.
http://www.stopplannedparenthoodtaxfunding.com/

FYI, over 40 million babies in the US have been murdered since Roe v Wade. Can you imagine that?

40 million, and "providers" like Planned Parenthood profit from hit. Partially from your tax dollars.