Providing and Promoting Abortion
What you should know about Planned Parenthood
The Real Plan Behind Planned Parenthood
For many, Planned Parenthood is a trusted name in affordable reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood Federation of America would like to keep that standing in the 800 plus communities where a center is operated. Planned Parenthood would also like to remain the largest abortion provider in the United States. To reach both goals, Planned Parenthood must distort the truth and provide misleading information to women who are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood began in 1916 with one birth control clinic opened by Margaret Sanger. Now, Planned Parenthood offers international services, encouraging the use of abortion to solve “health” and “social problems” in America and third-world countries.
According to information provided by the Planned Parenthood Centers in West Michigan: “We are prochoice because we believe every child should be wanted and loved.”
Right to Life of Michigan also agrees every child should be wanted and loved. In fact, every child could be wanted and loved. Each year more than 2 million families are waiting to adopt infants and young children of any race. There are also waiting lists for families wanting to adopt children with special-needs. However, each year more than 1 million abortions are performed in the United States.
Planned Parenthood’s Vision for 2025 includes a number of goals including Goal 2: “Planned Parenthood will ensure access to reproductive and sexual health care for all.” One of the ways Planned Parenthood worked to fulfill that goal in 2004 was by providing “early medication abortion to more than 95,000 women” through the abortion drug cocktail commonly called RU-486.
Planned Parenthood talks of choices for women, but one choice that isn’t addressed is the option of adoption. According to the 2007-2008 Annual Report of PPFA none of the more than 860 Planned Parenthood “health centers” provided any true assistance regarding adoption. In 1997, 9,381 women were referred to other agencies for adoption assistance. By 2007, that number had dropped to 4,912 women.
While referrals for adoption assistance declined the number of abortions per-formed at PPFA “health centers” increased. During 1997, 165,174 abortions were performed; however, by 2007 the PPFA abortion business has dramatically increased with 305,310 abortions performed.
A "Profitable" Non-Profit Organization
For years, prolife citizen-taxpayers have been frustrated by the fact that millions of government dollars in the name of family planning services go to abortion-promoting organizations like Planned Parenthood.
The thrust of “family planning” programs is to promote general reproductive health and prevent pregnancies. However, hundreds of millions of tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood for these programs subsidize their staff salaries and operational costs, allowing them to carry out their abortion advocacy. For the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2008, Planned Parenthood received $349.6 million in government grants and contracts.
Besides being the nation’s top provider of abortions, Planned Parenthood makes no apologies for its position that abortion should be considered part of comprehensive family planning services. For them, abortion is considered a method of birth control. It is time to redirect our tax dollars to health providers who are not abortion advocates.
Planned Parenthood operates as a “non-profit” organization, but consistently takes in more revenues than it spends. Nationally, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s 2007-08 Annual Report showed a profit (income in excess of expenditures) at $85 million. The same report indicated that net assets for PPFA grew by $81.2 million in one year!
For 2004, Michigan’s six P.P. affiliates reported a total of $1,217,790 in profit, accounting for 6.3% of their total $19,253,584 in revenues.
In August 1999, P.P. of East Central Michigan posted a job vacancy for a "Clinician and Director" at the Shiawassee Planned Parenthood Office. The job description included the following: "Major Responsibilities: Management. Direct the operations of the Shiawassee Clinic so that services meet the objectives for patient services, and for financial net gain." (Emphasis added)
Planned Parenthood Operates Advertising and Lobbying Campaigns
Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates lobby at both state and federal level to block any prolife legislative proposals, such as laws that would inform parents before their minor daughters obtain abortions. The Federation’s national headquarters reported that its affiliates spent $50.1 million for public policy during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008.
During the 2000 Election season Planned
Parenthood spent $14 million on issue advertisements “designed to help
a particular candidate,” according to an Associated Press report on
February 1, 2001.
The Detroit Free Press reported on August 8, 2000, that Planned Parenthood would target Michigan and a dozen other states with $3 million worth of TV commercials to air one month before the general election.
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