Letter: Abortion fundings should be redirected

Each year, $33 million of our tax dollars are spent on 95,000 “free” abortions, hurting women for a lifetime and making us unwilling accomplices to the tragic killing. That is 300 abortions per day we are forced to pay for.

Considering our enormous budget deficit, it is time this $33 million be redirected to truly help the needy citizens of our state.

The largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, had a national income of over $1 billion dollars, while affiliates here in California allegedly overcharged our state by at least $180 million.  Therefore, during this time of budget deficit, the abortion industry certainly does not need, nor deserve, our continued taxpayer funding.

Planned Parenthood, founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, has recently been recorded eagerly welcoming donations intended  specifically to eliminate African American babies.  Here in California, 43 percent of the Medi-Cal reimbursed abortions are done on Hispanic women.  Citizens of California should not support such blatant racism and lethal discrimination with our tax dollars.

Taxpayer money represents 33 percent of Planned Parenthood’s income.  As citizens, we demand that our dollars be put to better use, serving the needy of our state, rather than subsidizing the lucrative abortion industry. We are facing very serious budget cuts and likely tax increases. 

Here in California, votes on abortion go exactly down the party line, with Democrats historically fully supporting abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Therefore, please contact every Democrat state senator and assemblymember, asking him or her to eliminate abortion funding from the California state budget.

Wynette Sills
Pleasant Grove