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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, During these final weeks of the Spring 2009 |
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| Legislative Session, lawmakers will be forced to make hard |
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| choices as State revenues continue to deteriorate and the |
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| Illinois budget outlook for Fiscal Year 2010 hemorrhages with |
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| red ink; and
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| WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood, the alleged not-for-profit |
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| abortion business, in fiscal year 2007, brought in $1.0179 |
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| billion in gross revenue and, according to the Planned |
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| Parenthood Federation of America's Annual Report for |
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| 2006-2007, of that nearly $1.02 billion, $336.7 million came |
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| from government grants and contracts at both state and federal |
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| levels; and
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| WHEREAS, In the State of Illinois, taxpayers have provided |
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| over $25 million in funding to Planned Parenthood over the past |
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| five years for an average of $5 million per year; and
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| WHEREAS, Whatever one's views on abortion, the fact remains |
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| that the government, while trying to regain a steady financial |
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| foothold, should focus on providing financial assistance for |
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| basic, vital healthcare needs to those who need it most and |
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| that will affect the most citizens, not subsidizing a |
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| controversial operation that has no problem raising money on |