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September 2006

The 2004-2005 Planned Parenthood fiscal report has just recently been released, and they are still turning a profit with our tax dollars.  America’s largest abortion provider reported committing 255,015 abortions in 2004 at Planned Parenthood clinics across America—an increase of over 4% from the previous year.  Their presence and continued propaganda on “the importance of abortion” has enabled them to commit over 3.5 million abortions since 1970.

Many people still believe that Planned Parenthood provides much-needed medical services.  However, their extensive involvement in and promotion of abortion by far overshadows what other services they may provide.  Planned Parenthood harms and destroys more women and families than any other organization in the United States.

A Eugenic Start

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist who believed in the superiority of the white race.  In 1939, she proposed the “Negro Project”, where she wrote “the most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.  We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”  Sanger established birth control clinics in poor New York City neighborhoods to prey upon “Blacks, Hispanics, Slavs, Amerinds [American Indians], Fundamentalists, Jews and Catholics.”  Sanger’s organization, which started as the “Birth Control League”, was renamed “Planned Parenthood” after World War II in order to distance herself from her earlier Nazi associations.

Monetary Benefits

The abortion business is extremely lucrative.  Planned Parenthood brought in a record $882 million in 2004.  In 2003, about 10% of this profit was from abortion services; these numbers were not available for 2004.

Even worse, Planned Parenthood receives funding through the government—via our tax money.  Over one-third of their income ($272.7 million) came from federal “Government Grants and Contracts;” in Texas, Planned Parenthood receives about $55 million.  Although some of the funds are not allowed to support abortions, each dollar they receive for their other services frees up more money for their abortion business.

• Planned Parenthood increased the numbers of surgical abortions at its own facilities by 4% to 255,015, totaling 3.5 million abortions since 1970.
• Planned Parenthood has provided RU-486 (mifeprex), a drug that induces a chemical abortion, to over 200,000 women between 2000 (when it was legalized) and 2005.  (RU-486 is referred to as “medical abortion,” rather than surgical abortion.)
• Planned Parenthood aborted 180 children for every adoption referral to an outside agency.  When Gloria Feldt started as president of PPFA in 1997, the group's abortion/adoption ratio was 18:1.  During the past year, the adoption rate referral dropped yet again—by 20%. 
• For the 19th year in a row, Planned Parenthood earned a net profit.  This year's $63 million brings total profits over the past 18 years to over $600 million.

Source:  Planned Parenthood Annual Report 2004-2005.