PP will be just fine.

[Bubzer]

A few people are near hypoxia in panicking over the drop in PP donations. I'm not posting to defend people's cessation of donations... nor am I going to attack them. I'm not here to try and control them... couldn't if I tried anyway.

Point is, PP isn't going to have any problems. They make well over a billion dollars a year. They've got money enough to have a fully fledged lobbying arm. Even were all the private donations to cease, PP would still be within a hair's breadth of 1 billion.

Private dollars disappearing isn't going to stop immediate services as one or two have suggested. PP will have to be a little more careful on expenditures...they might have to reduce that lobbying arm a little. That's about it. So, you can relax. PP will get the message being sent by all those unhappy people, and they'll still be around after all is said and done.



Breath. Relax.

No, not you... me.

[safeinOhio]

1. You are correct and now

I don't feel so bad about no longer my checks. Looks like they have more than enough $ to employ Ms. Richard's daughter them selves. Thanks for making me feel better as I really support their mission.

[synergie]

4. You kind of should feel bad if you are punishing an organization that provides much needed basic

Healthcare to poor men and women for disagreeing with you politically.


http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/05/429641062/fact-check-how-does-planned-parenthood-spend-that-government-money

Read how fat money would have been spent, and feel really bad at shoveling into a political campaign that us already receiving funds.

And because the daughter of a CEO of a rather important nonprofit has a job and political views you do not actually disagree with, you will stop helping them in their fight to actually provide healthcare?

Do you guys have literally no clue how this organization is being hit?

[wavesofeuphoria]

6. Single payer would solve funding troubles & provide healthcare to many more.

$20 million they say will be use to support HRC. I thought PPact money was used to fight for PP ... not to endorse primary candidates. Frankly, take your little lecture to PPact .. spent that money on actual PP services.

PP isn't the only game in town ... their are lots of other services both for repro care & healthcare for low income that will see my PP money now.

Seems pretty stupid to support an organization supposedly committed to women's healthcare that endorses a candidate whose positions are against single payer (this blows my fucking mind), supports the TPP (drug costs alone are horrible) and fracking (familiar with how fucked up that can make ground water?) ... to just scratch the surface of all HRC bad policies.

Besides .. Hill just needs to give one of the speeches to Goldman-Sachs and donate that to PP to more than make up for those of us not donating because we don't like our politics quite so corrupt

[djean111]

2. I think any angst is due to the very delusional belief that PP's endorsement would cause people

to support Hillary instead of Bernie. Pushing endorsements to matter more than policy, history, and issues was never going to work. Maybe this was effective in last elections, but we have such a rich treasure trove of information available to us now, not just what was historically sluiced into the chutes.

Used to be, pretty much everybody would think oh, if my local paper endorses candidate B, then I should too! Now we just think - oh, the local paper is owned by a huge conglomerate that contributed heavily to candidate B, and the endorsement is quid pro quo, they will be getting rewarded. new paradigm.

[synergie]

3. Um, actually the women that PP helps will actually be hurt.

Here is the article that goes with that link, which explains how money is used, and perhaps you will figure out how adopting right wing arguments to justify your anger will actually hurt pp and its patients.

PP is a healthcare provider, it is the mechanism through which government funded and assisted healthcare function in this country.

Taking away your donations to fund what you guys keep saying is a record breaking fundraising effort for Bernie just hurts poor people, who in several states are ALREADY being denied little things like STD tests and treatment, in areas where there are resulting HIV outbreaks, few clinics and multi drug resistant gonorrhea.

Breathe, but what are you relaxing about? Did you forget what is going on in this country and what PP has been fighting to do?

[smokey nj]

5. Well, shame on Planned Parenthood they're the ones who brought this on.

They're the ones playing politics with the lives of poor people.

[Bubzer]

7. Your link is missing, and you've not cited an article.

PP has stable funding of over a Billion dollars. Women will not be impacted.