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Illinois Federation

For Right to Life

Daily News

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Following the PPFA Money Trail

 

Though technically a "non-profit," Planned Parenthood makes an enormous amount of money -- $1,0179 billion in revenues for the fiscal year that ended June 2007, to be exact. What PPFA works overtime to hide is that a significant portion of that comes from abortion. (See Part Three, a factsheet that brilliantly summarizes PPFA'

s money trail.)

 

Planned Parenthood says abortion accounts for only 3% of its services.

Planned Parenthood apparently obtains such a figure by counting each pregnancy test, each packet of pills it passes out, every test it does for sexually transmitted diseases, etc., as a uniquely rendered "service."

 

But abortion produces more than a third of PPFA'

s clinic income. With industry rates for a standard first-trimester suction abortion at about $413, PPFA's minimum take for the 289,750 abortions it performed would have been at least $119.6 million.

 

It's easy to understand why PPFA so adamantly defends abortion in the courts and lobbies unceasingly to have state and federal governments pay for it. It also explains one of the reasons why PPFA President Cecilia Richards is encouraging more of Planned Parenthood's clinics to add abortion to their offerings.

 

Once again, the old maxim holds true -- if you want to know the truth, just follow the money. The factsheet will help you do just that.

 

Click on the following link to view the factsheet:

http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/PPFAMoneyFactsheet.pdf

 

Contact: Dave Andrusko

Source: National Right to Life

Source URL: http://www.nrlc.org

Publish Date: October 15, 2008

 

 

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