Planned
Parenthood
Annual
Report Fleshes Out September "Fact Sheet"
PPFA received $363 million in government grants and contracts
As dreadful as the contents are, Planned Parenthood's 2008-2009 Annual
Report makes for compelling reading. [http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PPFA_Annual_Report_08-09-FINAL-12-10-10.pdf]
Having gone through it twice, and aided immeasurably by the work of
people who are far more knowledgeable about PPFA than I am, let's see
what can be said about "The Promise of Change: Planned Parenthood
Federation of America Annual report 2008-2009."
Some of the highlights, so to speak, include…
What is missing--the number of abortions (and the number of adoption
referrals and prenatal clients), customary in prior years. Perhaps
that's because, as we reported back in September, PPFA's Factsheet's
revealed that abortions had jumped a whopping 6% to 324,008 while the
number of adoption referrals had dropped by more than 10%. We
don't have reliable national count yet for 2008, but considered as a
percentage of the latest national annual abortion figure the Guttmacher
Institute reported for 2005, this would make Planned Parenthood
responsible for 26.8% of all abortions performed in the U.S. This
easily cements their place as America's top abortion chain. [See pie
charts below.]
*The massive amounts of money PPFA receives from the government (in the
form of grants and contracts): $363 million. While PPFA's 2008-2009
Annual Report does not break out what portion of that $363 came
from the FEDERAL government, the attached chart does show the
correlation between increased government funding to PPFA and increased
abortions conducted by PPFA.
*We see that PPFA was energized by the results of the November 2008
elections. "With the election of President Barack Obama, a
self-described pro-choice President, Planned Parenthood launched
reinvigorated advocacy campaign for ambitious policies" to…
"achieve affordable, quality, comprehensive reproductive health care as
part of health care reform" ; "expand access to reproductive health
care through Medicaid in advance of health care reform"; "increase
government funding for family planning programs": and [my description]
stifle the conscience right of health care workers who oppose (among
other things) abortion.
*Many pro-lifers may not realize the determination with which PPFA
seeks to massively expand abortion internationally, particularly in
countries that have protective laws. In the Annual Report we read (to
pick four examples)
(1) "In Kenya, we worked with advocates who developed a grassroots
campaign to increase public support for decriminalizing abortion."
(2) "Latin America and the Caribbean, we offered training for health
center security and tracking groups hostile to women's health and
family planning."
(3) "In northern Nigeria, we overcame the reluctance of a large
religious organization to introduce basic reproductive health care
through its more than 100 health centers. Now, more than 60 of
those centers offer birth control and refer women to private medical
providers if they need a safe abortion."
(4) "We worked with the Obama administration to protect women's health
and promote sexual and reproductive rights around the world, including
overturning the global gag rule [Mexico City Policy] and restoring U.S.
reproductive health and safe motherhood funding to the United Nations
Population Fund [UNFPA].
There's much more that you can read at
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PPFA_Annual_Report_08-09-FINAL-12-10-10.pdf,
so
let's
finish up with two other salient points.
First, under the category 'Agents," the report lists Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, who received the PPFA Margaret Sanger Award (named
after its founder). "You may remember that under persistent questioning
from pro-life Rep. Chris Smith Clinton finally admitted the truth. "We
happen to think that family planning is an important part of women's
health," Clinton told Smith. "And reproductive health includes access
to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal, and rare."
Second, PPFA's power within pro-abortion circles grows and grows. After
a series of recent mergers and disaffiliations, the group now has 95
affiliates. The group is said to have had more than double that number
in 1979. Many of the larger, more profitable
affiliates have gobbled up the smaller ones as the organization becomes
leaner and quite literally, as the record number of abortions shows,
meaner.
Contact: Dave Andrusko
Source: National Right to Life
Publish Date: December 18, 2010
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