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Planned Parenthood Slashed Lobbying Spending by $740,000 Last Quarter

Account closed Wrote: Apr 28, 2012 1:27 PM

If it's true that PP is cutting back on lobbying, then that's a start. All of these problems began many years back with congressmen handing out money that we didn't have to organizations that would kick some back - and those organizations grew and grew their piece of the pie through lobbyists. Now take away the rest of the handouts.

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Planned Parenthood Slashed Lobbying Spending by $740,000 Last Quarter

Although the Susan G. Komen Foundation – a prominent cancer-screening organization – reversed its decision earlier this year to cut ties with Planned Parenthood, the politically charged controversy seems to have taken a toll on the nation’s leading abortion provider.

Planned Parenthood slashed its spending on lobbying in the first quarter of 2012 by 88 percent, disclosure records show.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its advocacy arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, spent a total of roughly $99,000 in the first quarter on lobbying activities. That’s a huge drop from the fourth quarter of last year,...

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