Money Talks

Neil Diamond had it right, money does talk. It talks in the abortion industry also. One new study says the tentacles of legalized abortion are reaching deep into the American culture, due to the motives of profit, or to put it bluntly, the bottom line.

 

Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, is the author of the study. "Commercial Markets Created by Abortion: Profiting From the Fetal Distribution Chain."  Evans told  the Catholic San Francisco newspaper for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, that she wanted to use her training as a certified public accountant to "follow the money" between the abortion industry and commercial enterprise.

 

"I wanted to come up with a body of knowledge that nobody else had thought of before," she told Catholic San Francisco. "In following the money and seeing who gets paid for what and how much they get paid, and how unregulated these areas are, I found a lot of facts that a lot of people wouldn't have noticed or wouldn't have thought to look for."

 

Her 72 page study wanted to find out how "special interests" or "commercial cause" was driving the abortion industry and keeping it free from transparency and regulation. Evans wrote, "Putting aside the ideological question for the moment, it appears that abortion-related businesses, silently springing up and maturing over the past forty years, could now be influencing the abortion debate."  

 

Her findings show, that between the fiscal years of 2003 and 2008, the abortion industry, comprising 1,787 abortion providers in the United States in 2005, grew from an $810 million dollar business to $1.038 billion dollar industry. During that time, Planned Parenthood Federation of America's abortion market share increased from 245,092 abortions ($88.2 million in 2003) to 305,310 abortions ($122.1 million in 2007). By the year 2008, PPFA had taken a whopping 25 percent of the abortion market, more than doubling its' market share since 1997, which at that time was 12 percent.

 

Evans also noted, "When abortion became legal in the United States, no one anticipated that it would give rise to a tremendous market in fetal parts, tissues and cells. "When morality is excluded from a civil society, the weak and vulnerable are easily exploited for the benefit of the strong and powerful."

 

So, Money Talks, but it don't walk ... only into the pockets of predators.