Editor's note. The following are excerpts from the statement of Rep. Chris Smith at yesterday's press conference on GAO Report on Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations.

Cong. Chris Smith

Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger said, "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

No one "kills it" more efficaciously and in such huge numbers–over 300,000 dead babies each year--as Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

In one of her books The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger devotes an entire chapter to what she calls--"The Cruelty of Charity"--and harshly condemns maternal healthcare as "stupid cruelty" that only "encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents."

Sanger's anti-child, anti-human rights nightmare is today aggressively implemented by Planned Parenthood Federation of America with huge subsidies from U.S. taxpayers--$657 million according to GAO between 2002-2008 alone.

The most unsafe place for women and children today is Planned Parenthood's 850 facilities. At Planned Parenthood clinics, in 2007 alone, 305,000 babies were either dismembered, chemically poisoned or starved to death by RU486.
Since Obama's election, U.S. subsidies to the abortion industry at home and abroad, have significantly increased.

When Obama shredded the Mexico City Policy, he opened the floodgate of taxpayer funds to pro-abortion NGOs (i.e. International Planned Parenthood Federation) that perform and lobby for abortion worldwide. Making matters worse he increased funding available to those organizations by 50%--to $648,457 million.

It's time for Americans and especially Congress to take a second look and defund it; defund Planned Parenthood--Child Abuse Inc.