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The financial ties between Planned Parenthood and Democrats run deep, with the taxpayer-funded women'southward health care and abortion provider's employees and political arms altruistic at least $25 million to party lawmakers over the by 15 years, according to a FoxNews.com analysis.

The money, which flowed through an all-encompassing web of Planned Parenthood employees, political action committees and soft-money donors accounts for 99 per centum of all political donations linked to Planned Parenthood, leaving little uncertainty about the partisan preference of the organization. Amid calls for ending the organization's roughly $500 1000000 in annual  federal funding, Planned Parenthood may demand its political musculus more than ever.

"These types of contributions -- any contributions -- to public officials are of import and they do sway votes," said Jeanne Zaino, a political science professor at Iona College in New Rochelle, Northward.Y.

"These types of contributions - whatever contributions - to public officials are important and they do sway votes."

— Jeanne Zaino, professor of political scientific discipline at Iona College

In addition to straight donations to the campaigns of Democratic lawmakers around the nation, Planned Parenthood employees and affiliates spent $12 million on lobbying efforts during the same span, according to documents examined by FoxNews.com.

As a tax-exempt nonprofit, Planned Parenthood is not immune to donate straight to political causes. Simply, similar hundreds of other nonprofits, it is permitted to establish a political action committee that is committed to its goals. Planned Parenthood's political arm, the Planned Parenthood Activeness Fund, works with scores of state, regional and local PACs and affiliates that seek to influence elections on every level. It is funded by private contributions and is not permitted to utilise the arrangement'due south funds even as it advocates for the organization and contributes to candidates sympathetic to its crusade.

Planned Parenthood's taxpayer subsidies take come under intense questioning in the wake of a series of sting videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, a group of denizen journalists opposed to ballgame. The graphic videos, some of which have featured hole-and-corner footage shot inside clinics and of Planned Parenthood officials allegedly discussing the illegal auction of fetal cadavers and trunk parts, accept made Planned Parenthood a major issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., was a big beneficiary of Planned Parenthood's political largesse last year. (AP)

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., was a big beneficiary of Planned Parenthood'due south political largesse final year. (AP) (AP)

A Senate mensurate to defund Planned Parenthood failed by a vote of 53-46 last week, falling seven votes brusque of the supermajority of 60 needed to avert a filibuster. Voting against the mensurate were several lawmakers who received some of the $884,574 Planned Parenthood'south PACs and supporters contributed to candidates and parties concluding year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The largest recipient, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., received $22,290 and voted with other Planned Parenthood-backed senators including Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, Al Franken, of Minnesota, and Jeff Merkley, of Oregon, to block the movement.

Democratic senators from so-called "ruby" states too have received sizable donations from Planned Parenthood PACs and supporters. Since 2006, Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has received a little more than $26,000; Jon Tester, D-Mont., $19,000 and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., has received $5,300.

Some current and one-time Planned Parenthood employees donated more than $100,000 to mostly Democrat-supported candidates and causes. Aimee Boone Cunningham, of Austin, Texas, donated a full of $233,000 to the Super PAC Planned Parenthood Votes, Democratic congressional candidates and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee betwixt 2012 and 2014. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, she was most recently the vice president of evolution of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. She also has been the deputy director of the Texas Autonomous Trust and the deputy executive director/finance director of the Texas Democratic Party.

Alexandria Marcus of San Francisco worked for Planned Parenthood intermittently betwixt 2005-2010 and donated $132,500 to the Democratic Campaign Committee, the DNC Services Corp. and Democratic candidates including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and President Obama during that time. She has served as associate vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest affiliate in the country, and equally manager of Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte and of two Planned Parenthood political activity committees and political campaigns.

Since the 2000 elections, every Senate Democrat who has voted not to defund Planned Parenthood has received a contribution from Planned Parenthood PACs and supporters. Shaheen has received $38,449 since 2002. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sherrod Chocolate-brown, D-Ohio, also take accepted more $30,000. Autonomous presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also benefited from Planned Parenthood advocates' cash during her years in the Senate, raking in $18,385 between 2000 and 2006.

"Their donation priorities demonstrate that, evidently, Planned Parenthood knows who will support their calendar no matter what," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said. "I am hopeful that the senators who voted against redirecting Planned Parenthood taxpayer funding volition mind to the millions of people around the nation that are mortified that their difficult-earned coin is existence used to facilitate the trafficking of children's body parts. Federal funding for Planned Parenthood shouldn't be a partisan or lobbying issue."

According to the Planned Parenthood Almanac Study, the organization received $528.four million in government health services grants and reimbursements in fiscal year 2014. According to law, none of its federal funds tin be used for abortion services. The arrangement claims the federal funds are used to promote other women's health causes, including birth control, mammograms and sex education educational activity in public schools.

The partisan nature of the abortion issue has a flip side. The Susan B. Anthony List, a private, anti-abortion organization, has donated $1,990,787 to Republicans since 2000 and merely $38,468 to Democrats, a contribution history that shows a similar dissimilarity, though on a much smaller scale.

Senators voting to continue funding Planned Parenthood may well have followed their consciences and the wishes of their constituents, but Zaino said the human relationship between donations and votes on such a charged upshot is undeniable.

"Someday we are analyzing a vote we e'er have to follow the money trail and this instance is no exception," Zaino said. "In that location is no question that the vote on Mon was tied to the contributions these senators take received from the Planned Parenthood SuperPacs and related individual donors."