Spain’s National Court Strips Planned Parenthood Affiliate of ‘Public Service’ Designation

By Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart

The National Court of Spain has stripped the Family Planning Federation – a division of the International Planned Parenthood Federation – of its designation as a “public service organization.”

The organization has been embroiled in scandal since May 2016 when it was revealed it had been receiving illegal funding over the past seven years, reports ACl Prensa, whose original article was translated and adapted by Catholic News Agency (CNA).

The National Court reportedly allowed the group’s continued designation as a “public service organization” when it promised to make some reforms, but on November 25, the Court permanently revoked Family Planning Federation’s (FPF) status as a public group, stripping it of numerous tax, economic, administrative, and legal benefits.

According to the report, Polonia Castellanos, president of the Christian Lawyers Association (CLA) – which worked to have the abortion provider’s designation removed – said, 

“An organization which has systematically failed to comply with the law cannot be granted that status.”

Castellanos requested that FPF be refused “the more than €400,000 they receive with the money coming out of our pockets,” and observed the organization is funded by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, also under investigation due to allegations of profiteering from the sale of body parts of aborted babies.

CLA filed a complaint arguing that FPF “had not declared income from ads they ran in a pharmaceutical magazine, prohibited under Spanish law, nor were they penalized for such advertising,” says the report.

“Such illegal conduct is incompatible with the advancement of the public interest, in this case, protecting the public’s health,” stated the Interior Ministry upon removing the group’s public service designation, adding that FPF’s actions involve “betraying the confidence that society places in that entity which claims to benefit the community in exchange for receiving important advantages.”

In addition to its ruling stripping the abortion provider of its public service designation, Spain’s National Court also required FPF to pay court costs for its litigation.

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