“Congress is slitting the throats of innocent babies — and their own — by funding the abortion giant Planned Parenthood,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, in a statement sent to Breitbart News. “Soon we will be hearing the siren call of ‘Defund Planned Parenthood’ as an election year rallying cry from the same Republicans who continually sign off on Planned Parenthood’s funding. But the best way to defund Planned Parenthood, is to never have funded them to begin with.”

In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood shows it took in nearly $544 million in taxpayer funding, as it also boosted its profits by $21 million — or 27 percent — from the prior year. The organization continues to perform over 320,000 abortions per year.