Taxpayer Subsidized Planned Parenthood to Spend $45 Million on Election

Planned Parenthood joins the 2020 elections as pro-abortion groups face a year of restrictions and battles. 

$45 Million Join the Pot

Five million voters across nine states – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, are Planned Parenthood’s target as the organization joins the 2020 elections with $45 million to spend. 

Presidential, congressional and state-level candidates who support abortion rights will receive support from Planned Parenthood. The pro-abortion initiative, dubbed “We Decide 2020”, aims at combating anti-abortion measures.

“Every major democratic candidate,” suits the organization if they share a pro-abortion motivation, Planned Parenthood Votes Executive Director Jenny Lawson said. 

“[The Trump Administration] has managed to undo so much over the last three years. The fact that this summer the Supreme Court might gut Roe v. Wade is an indicator of their intention and they’ve never been so bold,” Lawson told CBS News. 

The Roe v. Wade case will be the first abortion case to be heard by the Supreme Court in March since Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were appointed. The case’s focus on a law passed in Louisiana around 2014 requiring abortion-providing doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Should the law be upheld, Louisiana could be the first state without any legal abortion access since 1973’s legalization. Nearly 40 senators and 170 House members support the restriction, suggesting that the case might be “unworkable.” 

“The Democratic candidates collectively have the boldest reproductive rights policies we’ve ever seen. Every major candidate in the 2020 elections, except for Donald Trump, has spoken out against dangerous abortion bans and many of them have actually introduced real plans to protect the reproductive rights in this country,” Lawson said. 

While Planned Parenthood is slowly entering the world of politics in an effort to fight abortion restrictions, anti-abortion groups are also making a move to influence the 2020 elections, as last year the Susan B. Anthony List organization announced its plans to spend $41 million to “aggressively challenge, erode, and finally, overturn Roe v. Wade.”