Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell last week asked U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, to launch a congressional investigation into responses given by Planned Parenthood clinics to callers who posed as potential donors and asked that their donations be used to provide abortions to minority women, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Several University of California-Los Angeles students initiated calls to Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio and affiliates in Idaho, New Mexico, Oklahoma and other states in July 2007. The callers posed as donors and asked whether they could "underwrite" abortions for minority women.
The caller to the Ohio branch said he wanted his potential donation to fund an abortion for a black woman because there are "way too many black people in Ohio." According to The Dispatch, the receptionist said "OK."
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, received more than $330 million in taxpayer money last year.
