Green Bay Packers Foundation Invests in Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc.
By Anna DeMeuse, Pro-Life Wisconsin Communications Director
On Wednesday December 4, 2019 the Green Bay Packers Foundation (GBPF) released their annual grant fund recipients. Among the 192 grantees was "#112. Planned Parenthood Of Wisconsin Inc, Milwaukee."
Including the foundation’s impact grants, a record setting $2.05 million was awarded this cycle which focused on “organizations that will direct the funds toward the need areas of animal welfare, civic and community, environmental, health and wellness including drug/alcohol and domestic violence causes.”
The Green Bay Packers Foundation was founded in 1986 by Judge Robert J. Parins with a mission to “support charities possessing one or more of the following goals: perpetuates a community environment that promotes families and the competitive value of athletics; contributes to player and fan welfare; ensures the safety and education of children; and/or prevents cruelty to animals.” The grant awarded to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc, Milwaukee directly contradicts this mission.
If the foundation truly wanted to promote families and ensure the safety of children, they would not be financially investing in an organization that violently destroys children’s lives each and every day.
Dan Miller, State Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin (PLW) commented in a letter (see below) written to the Green Bay Packers Foundation, “Any perceived benefit Planned Parenthood provides to society is wiped out every time they kill a baby, which in their case is 4,639 times a year in Wisconsin alone. In just one day, they wipe out the approximate equivalent of an entire football team.”
PLW asks that pro-lifers across Wisconsin call out the Green Bay Packers Foundation for their egregious support of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc, Milwaukee. Sign your name to the letter below, and tell GBPF that organizations that profit off of the killing of innocent human life should never receive a cent.
