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Wednesday, Sen. Kelly Ayotte gave a web interview to Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of Susan B. Anthony List. SBA List is an organization that seeks to eliminate abortion by supporting pro-life politicians.
The interview topic was Planned Parenthood. Given how Planned Parenthood funding has become central to the Congressional budget fight, it's worth taking a closer look at the interview. And when you check the facts, you find Ayotte's responses are filled with lies and distortions.
"Planned Parenthood was on the other side of my fight in the Supreme Court and that was one I argued myself before the Court. And we got the Circuit Court of Appeal that had struck down the case, reversed, and sent back to lower courts to help preserve our law."
The Facts:
Nashua Telegraph, 8/16/2008: The state of New Hampshire must reimburse Planned Parenthood of New England for a lawsuit, in which the group challenged the state's 2003 parental notification law, a federal judge has ruled.
In his ruling last week, DeClerico said PPNNE effectively won the suit and deserved to be reimbursed a "reasonable award of legal fees and costs."
Ayotte:
"Abortion yields 37 percent of all Planned Parenthood revenues by conservative estimates."
The Facts:
Abortion accounted for 3% of total services (approximately 328,308 of 10,943,609 services). At an average cost of $500, total revenue from abortion services was approximately $164,154,000. Revenue from abortion services was less than 15% of the total annual revenue, which was $1,100,800,000 [Planned Parenthood Annual Report 2008-2009]
Ayotte:
"I’m troubled by what’s come out in the videos that have shown that they were essentially looking the other way on sex-trafficking."
The Facts:
[Lila] Rose's organization, Live Action, claims their video exposes what they call "Planned Parenthood's cover-up of child sex trafficking."
[T]he incident obviously doesn't show Planned Parenthood covering up child sex trafficking. That's because Planned Parenthood has already reported the "potential sex trafficking" to law enforcement officials.
