New Jersey Planned Parenthood Abortion
Biz Closes After Christie Cuts Fundsby Steven Ertelt
September 21, 2010
Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- After the New Jersey state Senate defeated an attempt to
override the decision of Gov. Chris Christie to cut off state taxpayer funding of Planned
Parenthood abortion businesses, the first facility run by the national abortion giant is closing.
The Cherry Hill Courier Post newspaper says a Planned Parenthood facility located on Haddonfield
Road and operated by
Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey will close down.PP-SNJ stands to lose as much as $160,000 in taxpayer funds because of Christie's decision
and the upholding of his veto. With the closing of the Cherry Hill center, Planned Parenthood
customers seeking abortions or other "services" must go to PP centers in Camden, Bellmawr,
and Edgewater Park.
Parenthood of Southern New Jersey president Lynn Brown told the newspaper, "We are in
think mode and creative mode and we are doing all that we can to try and salvage to see
as many people as we need to see."
"We all know it's strictly ideological," Brown said of the funding cuts to the abortion business.
"This is a very frustrating and perplexing time for us."
While the Cherry Hill center does not do abortions, it gives abortion referrals to Planned
Parenthood offices in Hamilton Square, Princeton, and Trenton where abortions are done
on women and unborn children.
Marie Tasy, the head of New Jersey Right to Life, told LifeNews.com she applauded the state
Senate for not overriding Christie's veto of the Planned Parenthood funding bill.
"We applaud the Senators who voted No to override Governor Christie?s veto of S2139,"
she said. "This debate was never about health care, it is about advancing a political agenda
and rewarding "friends" and a radical special interest group with our tax dollars."
"We commend Governor Christie for his steadfast opposition to eliminate waste, fraud
and abuse and for working to promote the best health care for all NJ citizens," Tasy added.
Christie won the praise of pro-life advocates in July by vetoing a bill that would restore
the family planning funds his administration cut from the state budget because of deep
economic troubles.
Although it doesn't fund abortions directly, the money goes to the Planned Parenthood abortion
business. The funds go to 58 family planning clinics but
Planned Parenthood, the nation's
largest abortion chain, runs 29 of the facilities.
After Christie cut the funding, the state legislature approved a bill to restore it and they
approved the bill he vetoed on a 30-10 vote on the Senate, more than enough to override.
However, Republicans who supported the bill would not buck their party's governor by
supporting the override vote.
Although a majority of the Senate voted to restore the abortion businesses' funding,
the Senate voted on a party-line 23-17 vote,
well short of the two-thirds needed
to override.Contact Governor Christie - http://
www.nj.gov/nj/feedback.html
