Profits or women? What really matters to the abortion industry?

On April 28, 2010, prolifers from across Michigan saw something they probably couldn’t imagine ever occurring: A Planned Parenthood director giving the keynote address at a Right to Life event.

Abby Johnson, now a former Planned Parenthood director, experienced a change of heart while assisting with an ultrasound-guided abortion. She quit her job in the fall of 2009.

Abby spoke about how she became involved with Planned Parenthood as a volunteer during college and quickly moved up through the ranks to become a director before her 30th birthday.

The inside information Abby shared about the business practices of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers was shocking. As a clinic director, Abby was tasked to meet specific patient goals for the various services her clinic provided. During a planning meeting, she noticed the goals for increasing the number of abortion patients kept rising while the goals for non-abortion services like breast exams and colon cancer screenings remained the same. She questioned her superiors about this and was told more money was needed to help Planned Parenthood’s finances.

More disturbing was Abby's description of a procedure Planned Parenthood used to administer the abortion drug RU-486. Abby detailed how Planned Parenthood in Iowa uses video teleconferencing to allow abortionists to skirt the state's law and dispense abortion drugs without ever physically meeting patients. Iowa law requires that the abortion doctor not merely prescribe but actually "administer" the RU-486 abortion drug to the woman seeking the abortion. She explained how this is troublesome to Planned Parenthood in Iowa because some abortion clients live far away from the larger cities where Planned Parenthood’s abortionists work. Having the abortion doctor travel to rural clinics to provide abortions for one or two women was not deemed cost-effective for the nation's largest abortion provider. To solve this problem, Planned Parenthood set up a system where the abortion doctors use video teleconferences with women in rural clinics. Without ever examining the woman, the abortionists can push a button on their computer and a drawer with abortion drugs will open at the rural clinic.

While this process makes financial sense to Planned Parenthood, the deaths of several women and complications including excessive bleeding, severe pain and vomiting for countless others who have used RU-486 would indicate it is very dangerous -- especially for women taking the drugs without access to the physician who prescribed them. The abortion drugs don't even work completely for about 8 percent of women who have taken them. These women are then encouraged to have a surgical abortion.

When Planned Parenthood claims they think of women and their safety first, remember Abby Johnson and what she shared about her former employer.

What really matters to the abortion industry?  Profits or women?

See what a former Planned Parenthood director told the audience at Right to Life of Michigan's Legislative Day. 

FULL STORY

Educational Presentation

What Lies Beneath is a PowerPoint presentation for use in churches and group settings to educate the abortion agenda of Planned Parenthood.

The PowerPoint is free of charge and comes with a presenter's script for a seamless presentation.

Presentation

Script

Planned Parenthood Federation of America by the numbers

- 305,310 abortions performed in 2007, up from 165,174 in 1997. Planned Parenthood performs approximately 1 in 4 abortions in the United States

- 4,912 adoption referrals in 2007, down from 9,381 in 1997

- 10,914 prenatal clients in 2007

- Commits approximately 28 abortions for every pregnant prenatal client and 62 abortions for every adoption referral

- Received more than $349 million from taxpayers in 2007-2008

- Made a profit of $85 million in 2007-2008

 

Resources

[These resources are available at the Right to Life of Michigan Educational Resource Centers.]

Providing and Promoting Abortion

A flier providing an overview of Planned Parenthood, available for download and copying (FLIER pdf)

Bilingual Spanish/English (FLIER pdf)

Abortion clinic complaint

A page with information about laws that abortion clinics are required to follow and instructions on how to file a complaint. CLICK HERE

 

Further reading

Bad Choices, by Douglas R. Scott

An in-depth look at Planned Parenthood's goals, strategy and organization.

Blessed are the Barren, by Robert Marshall and Charles Donovan

This book recounts the social policy of Planned Parenthood and the organization's history.

Grand Illusions, by George Grant

An overview of Planned Parenthood's legacy and effect on society from a religious perspective.

Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy, by Angela Franks

This work addresses Sanger’s ideas concerning birth control, eugenics, population control, and sterilization against the backdrop of the larger eugenic context.

Stand Up Girl, by Becky Fraser with Linda Shands
Becky Fraser was an unmarried college student who became pregnant. Becky uses this book to help women sort out their options as she did when she was pregnant.

Victims and Victors, edited by David C. Reardon, Julie Makimaa, and Amy Sobie
Addresses the issue of pregnancies conceived during rape and shares the stories of women who conceived after being rape.