Nearly one-third of the U.S. Senate has urged a federal agency to prevent the country’s largest abortion provider from receiving for a second time loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) endorsed the effort to keep Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds out of the hands of Planned Parenthood, which performed more than 345,000 abortions at its clinics in 2018-19, according to its latest annual report.
Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, joined by 30 other Republican senators in the 100-member chamber, wrote Thursday (Jan. 14) to call for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to tell participating lenders that Planned Parenthood affiliates are ineligible for PPP loans under the latest round of funding approved for the program in December. The letter to Administrator Jovita Carranza also urged the agency to ask lenders to inform the SBA if a Planned Parenthood affiliate seeks PPP funds and to refer any affiliate that does so to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution.
Somebody needs to rip that American flag off that pole. Nobody’s proud of those assholes.