Questions Raised About Anti-Abortion Groups Getting VA License Fee

[MountainLaurel]

Oh great, another instance of religious nuts getting government funds to lie to people.

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When a Virginia driver purchases a specialty "Choose Life" anti-abortion license plate, $15 of the $25 processing fee goes to Heartbeat International, a Christian group that distributes the money to pregnancy resource centers located across the state.

Critics say the license plate program doesn't do enough to determine whether a clinic is qualified for the money. One pregnancy center listed by several anti-abortion groups as a certified clinic -- the Mattingly Test Center in Loudoun County -- is a two-story brick house owned by Linda Mattingly, a former director at Care Net, a Leesburg-based pregnancy network. There are no signs in front indicating it is a clinic, the Internal Revenue Service has no record of it as a 503(c) nonprofit, and it is not registered as a corporation with the Virginia secretary of state.

A woman who answered the door of the Ashburn house last week said pregnancy services had been, but no longer were, provided there. She did not give her name before closing the door. The Washington Post tried to reach Mattingly by phone, but messages were not returned.

Mattingly is listed on Heartbeat's Web site as among the anti-abortion clinics in Virginia in good standing and, according to the Richmond Coalition for Life, is eligible for funding.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011904462.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Is there no end to this???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We truly are going to hell in a handbasket....and I do not mean the "biblical" hell.