“Planned Parenthood, as it turns out, has violated 501(c)(3) Federal Law by opposing candidates in public statements,” writes Sean Elijah Le Van, an undergrad student at Columbia Universit...

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/126745

As a 501©(3), Planned Parenthood falls under the jurisdiction of Title 26 of the United States Code of Laws, section 501, subsection c(3). The statute specifies that a 501©(3) “does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” According to an IRS webpage, intervention in a political campaign “indirectly” or “directly” is expressly prohibited.