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Look At What Planned
Parenthood Has ‘Achieved’ In 100 Years
10:36
PM 10/15/2016
In the
100 years since its founding, Planned Parenthood has grown from one small birth
control clinic in Brooklyn to a well-oiled abortion machine operating 650
clinics across all 50 states.
On the
subject of abortion, Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger wrote: “The
most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is
to kill it.” She was elaborating a point in a chapter of her 1920 book
titled “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families.” Although Planned
Parenthood tries to downplay its whopping abortion figures, there’s no
doubt the organization has done its founder proud.
Planned
Parenthood abortionists have pulled apart, crushed, or chemically ended the
lives of at least 4,481,195 unborn babies since 1999, according to its own
annual reports available online. And Jim Sedlak at American Life League puts
the sum total at nearly 7 million based on his review of earlier reports.
On the
other hand, Planned Parenthood reports staff referred women to
adoption services just 33,532 times since 1999. That’s about 133 lifeless
fetuses for every adoption referral.
By
Sedlak’s count, Planned Parenthood aborted 100 unborn babies in 1970, when
New York became the first state to legalize abortion through 24 weeks, and
within twenty years, that annual number was well over 100,000. In 2014, Planned
Parenthood staff aborted 327,653 unborn babies.
Planned
Parenthood attempts to downplay these shocking numbers by using a ridiculous calculation to insist abortions are only 3
percent of what happens at clinics. A woman who visits a clinic one time and
gets a pregnancy test, a contraception kit and a pap smear is counted as having
received three services, while a woman who visits for an abortion is counted as
having only one service. Then Planned Parenthood tallies them up and says
abortions are a fraction of the millions of services it offers each year.
“This is
a little like performing an abortion and giving a woman an aspirin, and saying
only half of what you do is abortion,” Rich Lowry wrote in a piece debunking the statistic in The New York Post.
Planned
Parenthood has actually grown its foothold in the abortion business, even as
the national number of abortions is declining. About one in three abortions in
the U.S. took place at a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2011 (the most recent
year with federal data on national numbers).
By
contrast, the number of those other non-abortion services Planned
Parenthood provides has dropped sharply over the years. For example the number
of breast exams has declined from more than a million performed in 1999 to just
363,803 performed in 2014. These trends are illustrated in a chart from
Americans United for Life based on Planned Parenthood’s annual reports.
(Americans
United for Life)
While it
has grown its abortion business and planted its feet firmly as the leader of
the pro-abortion movement, the organization has also developed an amazing
ability to weather attacks and scandal, often with the help of friendly press and friendly politicians.
Most
recently, of course, the “health” organization’s dealings in the parts of
aborted fetuses was exposed by a series of undercover videos released by the
Center for Medical Progress. Top Planned Parenthood doctors talk frankly and
callously about the best way to abort an unborn child in order to properly
harvest its brain and limbs for researchers across the world. The stunning tapes
led a number of states to defund Planned Parenthood, and multiple congressional
investigations into the fetal tissue industry.
Congress
even managed to pass a bill defunding the organization at the federal level,
which would deprive it of about half a billion tax payer dollars it receives
every year. But the revelation that Planned Parenthood was dealing in
aborted baby parts was not enough to get the bill past President Barack Obama’s
veto override.
That’s likely
in large part due to the huge sums of money Planned Parenthood and its
affiliates have spent lobbying Congress and trying to influence elections,
including an unprecedented $30 million spending spree to elect
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton this year.
Since
1990, the organization and its affiliates have dumped more than $50 million
into the political system, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive
Politics. The money came through a combination of contributions to candidates
and committees ($8.5 million since 1990), lobbying Washington ($15 million
since 1998) and outside spending on campaigns ($30.2 million since
2012). That includes nearly $1 million in contributions to PACs,
candidates or political committees in the 2016 election alone,
making Planned Parenthood one of the most generous givers of the cycle.
“They put
themselves in role of martyr while at the same time making money
hand-over-fist,” said Kristi Hamrick of Americans United for Life told USA Today regarding centennial anniversary. “The thing
they’re really good at is public relations and marketing and making money.”
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