What health care? 92% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnant customers get abortions
For such a proud defender of the “right to choose,” Planned
Parenthood notably chafes at the suggestion that their primary business is abortion. They’ve laughably claimed that abortion comprises just 3% of their services, and now LifeNews reports that Planned Parenthood’s 2011-2012 annual report shows that 92% of the pregnant women who come to them receive abortions.
They also report several astonishing findings from the Susan B. Anthony List’s analysis of the numbers:
- During fiscal year 2011-2012, Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. Taxpayer funding consists of 45% of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue.
- In 2011, Planned Parenthood performed a record high 333,964 abortions.
- Over the past three reported years (2009-2011), Planned Parenthood has performed nearly one million abortions (995,687).
- Planned Parenthood reported a total of three million clients in 2011, meaning that 11% of all Planned Parenthood clients received an abortion.
- In 2011, abortions made up 92% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services, while prenatal care and adoption referrals accounted for only 7% (28,674) and 0.6% (2,300), respectively. For every adoption referral, Planned Parenthood performed 145 abortions.
- Cancer screening & prevention services and contraceptive services provided by Planned Parenthood continue to drop. Contraceptive services have dropped by 12% since 2009, and cancer screening & prevention services have dropped by 29%.
The numbers are consistent with the previous year’s findings,
which found that abortions made up 91.2% (329,445) of their pregnancy
services, prenatal care 8.6% (31,098), and adoption referrals 0.2%
(841). While Planned Parenthood’s adoption referrals more than doubled,
it and other legitimate medical services still represent a tiny sliver
of their business.
As SBA List president Majorie Dannenfelser points
out, “Planned Parenthood has upped the ante even further by mandating
that all affiliates provide abortions beginning this year,” so we should
only expect the kill-to-care ratio to grow even starker.
Whenever their taxpayer funding is endangered,
Planned Parenthood trots out all the harmless services that would be
impacted. But SBA List notes that the abortion giant “reported $87.4 million in excess revenue, and more than $1.2 billion in net assets.”
In light of how little real care they actually do, it’s clear that
cutting down on cancer prevention and prenatal care rather than abortion
would be their choice.
Of course, pro-aborts have always played fast and
loose with the significance of percentages to the debate. Despite
abortion constituting so much of their work, we can’t cut their funding
because of all the women we’d supposedly doom to breast cancer. But
we’re not supposed to care
about late-term abortion or fetal awareness because most abortions take
place earlier. Then again, the 1% of abortions due to rape are
so incredibly important that we can’t talk about prohibiting an
abortions without the conversation getting derailed by shrieks about
“rape babies.”
Like the Mafia or Tammany Hall providing social
services to provide cover for their real objectives, Planned Parenthood
is a massive chain of butcher’s shops, whose interest in women’s genuine
wellness is merely a product of political necessity. The time to end
the con is long overdue.
Source: LiveAction News
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