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Planned Parenthood broke 501c3 rules by letting Harris-Walz campaign use facility, says pro-life org

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Planned Parenthood broke 501c3 rules by letting Harris-Walz campaign use facility, says pro-life org

The pro-life organization 40 Days for Life has filed an IRS complaint against Planned Parenthood, arguing that the abortion business violated its 501c3 status by allowing the Harris-Walz campaign to use its facility in Sarasota, Florida.

According to Fox News, the complaint, which was filed in December, maintains that 40 Days for Life has information on “potentially prohibited political activities that may impact the tax-exempt status” of Planned Parenthood Florida. 40 Days for Life CEO Shawn Carney explained the complaint in an interview with Fox News Digital, clarifying that it specifically pertains to the 501c3 nonprofit arm of Planned Parenthood, not the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

“It’s clear electioneering, it’s clear partisan political activity. It also may be, in the Sarasota case, a violation of providing in-kind donations to a political party,” he said.

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Carney noted that because 40 Days for Life members are actively campaigning outside many Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide, it’s easy to spot violations when they happen.

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“This was clearly noticeable. They were giving out flyers that said ‘Tim Walz Tuesdays,’ which doesn’t sound like the greatest time in the world, but nevertheless, they were promoting all these events of hosting Walz-Harris campaign events and providing their space to do that — which, of course, they did not do for the Republicans,” he said. “And you just can’t do that as a 501c3. This is very, very basic.”

Carney also explained that his organization previously filed a separate IRS complaint last summer, when Planned Parenthood operated a mobile abortion facility outside the Democratic National Convention. 40 Days for Life is hopeful that the complaints will be considered after the Trump administration takes office.

“The pro-abortion angle of running on celebrating abortion was a dismal failure for the Harris-Walz campaign, but when we filed that, we did get a response that they had received it, and we are hoping and pushing the Trump administration to take up that investigation. Because now we have two violations, both of which were obviously against the Trump administration and were heavily politically partisan towards the Democrats — which, of course, as nonprofits, you just can’t do,” said Carney.

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