As Congress heads into a debate over whether to continue funds to Planned Parenthood, a Washington Examiner analysis shows that Planned Parenthood and affiliates spent almost $5 million dollars in election ads promoting Democratic lawmakers in 2014.
Additionally, Planned Parenthood has contributed $679,596 directly to federal candidates, $676,885 of that to Democrats, in 2014.
Planned Parenthood was in the top 10 percent of nearly 200 outside expenditure groups in 2014, and the analysis shows that the abortion giant spent $0 on ads attacking Democratic candidates.
Courtesy OpenSecrets.org
In the 2014 federal elections, a landslide year for Republicans, Planned Parenthood spent nearly $3 million in ads attacking Republican candidates and an additional $1.8 million in ads promoting Democrats.
The Examiner analyzed election data obtained by Open Secrets from the Federal Elections Committee on March 09, 2015.
The government gave half a billion dollars to Planned Parenthood in the last year on record and, while a growing cadre of House Republicans say they will not pass a spending bill that sends money to the group, Senate Majority Leader called this Friday an "exercise in futility."
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