Planned Parenthood collects 72,000 donations made in Mike Pence's name
About 72,000 donations to Planned Parenthood were made in the name of Vice president-elect Mike Pence who is a firm opponent of the abortion organization.
Planned Parenthood's national office has revealed that roughly 72,000 of over 260,000 donations that were collected since Nov. 8 were made in the name of Pence, CBC reported.
"We are so grateful to this community across the country, and we will never stop fighting for them," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
"We've stood defiant in the face of opposition for the last 100 years. We will never back down, and we will never stop providing the care our patients need. These doors stay open, no matter what," she continued.
Planned Parenthood currently receives about half a billion dollars in taxpayer money each year, according to Life News. The organization reportedly spent around $30 million on campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and other pro-abortion politicians.
The campaign to donate in Pence's name started on social media about a week after the election. Amy Schumer and Amber Tamblyn were among the pro-abortion celebrities who participated.
Pence has been a staunch opponent of abortion throughout his career. He had attempted to defund Planned Parenthood back when he was still a congressman. As a governor of Indiana, he recently signed an Indiana bill into law which would ban abortions based solely on the unborn baby's disability, sex, or race.
During the campaign period, he promised that he and President-elect Donald Trump will work to cut the flow of funds to Planned Parenthood.
"Donald Trump and I believe that the largest abortion provider in America should not be the largest recipient of federal funding under Title 10. A Trump-Pence administration will defund Planned Parenthood and redirect those dollars to women's health care that doesn't provide abortion services," Pence told the students of Liberty University in Virginia.
Meanwhile, a look-alike of the vice-president-elect is collecting donations for Planned Parenthood and other causes. Glen Pannell, a 51-year-old New Yorker, collected $171.21 for the abortion giant when he stood in chilly Midtown for four hours earlier this month wearing a suit jacket and a tie from the waist up and a vintage pair of shorts down below.