Planned Parenthood Claims Abortions are Just 4% of What It Does. That’s Totally False

Planned Parenthood (PP) released their annual report a few days ago, and it doesn’t surprise me that as always, it is full of creative and misleading statistics*. For instance:

• The abortion-performing giant performed a record 402,230 abortions–an increase of over 9,500 from the previous year and an overall increase of 23% since 2013–yet they claim that abortion is only 4% of their services!

• According to the report, 96.9% of the time, women seeking help related to their pregnancy at Planned Parenthood were sold an abortion rather than given prenatal care, provided care for a miscarriage, or helped to make an adoption plan.

• Prenatal services, miscarriage car, and adoption referrals accounted for only 1.7%, 0.9% and 0.5% respectively.

So how do they get the 4% statistic? It’s easy to manipulate the data. When a client goes to PP for an abortion, she may have a pregnancy test, an ultrasound procedure, a blood test, an STD test, an HIV test, be given anesthesia or pain killers, have a consultation about contraceptives, or a whole range of other services, event though the reason for the visit is the abortion. Let’s say that she has a total of 10 “services”, even though the abortion is the reason for those services, PP counts each “service” as equal, so in this case, they would say that the abortion was only 10% of the services that the woman received.

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I’ve been hospitalized many times over the years. I remember years ago when I was in the hospital for the birth of my children, the itemized bill I received was probably longer than an arm’s length and had maybe 50 separate charges. By PP’s logic, the delivery of my children was only .02% of the services I received even though that is the reason I was in the hospital!

The most astounding stat in the report however, is that last year, PP received $792.2 million dollars (an increase of $92.9 million dollars over the previous year) in taxpayer funding! They also reported an excess total revenue over total expenses of $178.6 million dollars!

There is some good news, though, and hope that this abortion giant will be cut down. As reported by LifeNews, House Republicans unveiled sweeping legislation late Sunday that would defund Planned Parenthood for the next decade and prohibit taxpayer funding of so-called “gender transition procedures” for minors under Medicaid. The bill, part of a broader GOP fiscal package aligned with President Donald Trump’s agenda, includes multiple provisions long sought by the pro-life movement.

Planned Parenthood has aborted an estimated 7.1 million babies since 2000 and now commits roughly 40% of all US abortions. Apparently their motto of “Care. No Matter What” doesn’t extend to the children that they kill. KILLING PREBORN CHILDREN IS NOT HEALTHCARE no matter how you sugar coat it.

LifeNews Note: Denise Leipold is the interim executive director of Right to Life of Northeast Ohio.

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