Planned Parenthood

Wow! Abortions up 6% and adoptions down - latest factsheet from Planned Parenthood's Federation of America. Margaret Sanger would be so proud. After all, most of those clinics are strategically placed in low-income neighborhoods. The new Planned Parenthood figures show they performed 324,008 abortions in 2008. This represents a 6.1% increase over the 305,310 abortions in 2007. Approximately 1.2 million abortions are done annually in the United States; either by surgery or chemically.

If each of the women, who aborted at Planned Parenthood in 2008, paid what was the going price for abortions in 2005, Planned Parenthood would have reaped $133 million in income. And this assumes, that all of the abortions were standard first-trimester suction abortions. And we know that there are Planned Parenthood clinics which advertise and perform more expensive chemical and late-term abortions.

There are a few other figures from Planned Parenthood's factsheet worth noting: Planned Parenthood says it has more than 825 clinics and more than 30,000 staff members and volunteers. They also claim, that they have more than 4 million active supporters and donors.

The most disturbing claim from the factsheet, "seventy-two percent of our clients have incomes below 150% of the federal policy level." Ponder - with Planned Parenthood's recent efforts to build new upscale mega-clinics, Planned Parenthood has reached out to a wealthier clientele, yet their customers are still drawn predominantly from poorer clientele. We've heard of "The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer." Well, now the rich are getting richer, and genocide is what the poor are getting. Wake up America! Planned Parenthood is not for family planning. It is the number 1 abortion provider in America, making hundreds of millions of your tax dollars, off of abortions.