Planned Parenthood is being accused of violating its tax-exempt status by providing workspace for the Harris-Walz presidential campaign. The allegations are laid out in an IRS complaint filed by a pro-life organization.
40 Days for Life, one of the country’s leading pro-life organizations, filed the IRS complaint in December, claiming to have information about “potentially prohibited political activities that may impact the tax-exempt status” of Planned Parenthood Florida.
The 42-page IRS complaint also alleges “Planned Parenthood’s activities, in this case, are starkly different from permissible lobbying.”
“The provision of office space juxtaposes its tax-exempt privilege against a politically charged environment, serving as a clear indicator of political endorsement or opposition of particular candidates and parties,” the complaint reads.
Included in the complaint are photographs of campaign staffers walking inside what appears to be the Planned Parenthood office in Sarasota, Florida.
“This is one of the many violations we’ve seen Planned Parenthood do, because we’re physically at these abortion facilities, holding peaceful vigils and offering medical alternatives to abortion. And so because we’re out there, you know, at over 1700 locations, we see a lot of things that Planned Parenthood does,” 40 Days for Life CEO Shawn Carney told Fox News Digital.
“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 Walt Harris campaign events and providing their space to do that, which, of course, they did not do for the Republicans. And you just can’t do that as a 501c3. This is very, very basic” added Carney.
Carney’s group also filed a completely separate complaint about Planned Parenthood’s mobile abortion bus that was operating a few miles from where the Democratic National Convention was taking place last summer.