Why I am Against ‘Planned Parenthood’

“The great irony is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of…
Roughly one quarter of the black population is now missing.”

Dr. Alveda King, Niece of Martin Luther King Jr.

Why I am Entirely and Utterly Against “Planned Parenthood”

Planned Parenthood. The industry that cares about you and your family. The industry that provides millions of Americans with access to low-cost ‘health care’. The industry that really should receive even more money than the 360 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies it already receives to bolster its annual one billion dollar (and counting) budget, in order to help it continue to perform its ‘good works’.

Bullcrap.

Let’s take another look at Planned Parenthood. A good, hard look, one that pierces through the front of lies, misconceptions, and hidden agendas that PP has worn since its founding.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood):

“Planned Parenthood affiliate clinics account for approximately 27% of U.S. abortions versus 73 percent at other, non-affiliated medical facilities.”

This means that 1 out of every 4 aborted babies are murdered by Planned Parenthood. I don’t have to tell you the view we Catholics take towards abortion. It is murdering a human being, as surely as if you had shot your next-door neighbor in the head with a gun. Only God has the right to take an innocent life.

“According to its 2008-2009 annual report and fact sheet, contraception constituted 35% of [Planned Parenthood's] total services”

This means that the providing contraception constitutes the single largest percentage of the ‘services’ PP provides. Catholics consider contraception in the same category as abortion: it’s pure and unadulterated evil. If you do not want a child, you have no business getting married, as the entire reason behind matrimony is to have children. And if you have sexual relations out of wedlock, not only are you irresponsible and thoughtless, but you are committing a grave moral evil.

From National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/265590/five-truths-about-planned-parenthood-charmaine-yoest):

Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, a long-time opponent of Planned Parenthood, reveals 5 little-known truths about Planned Parenthood in this article on National Review Online. If anyone is an expert on Planned Parenthood’s hidden agendas and extreme corruption, it is Yeost. I quote the entirety of Yoest’s article within the context of this post, but you can use the link above to read the article on National Review Online.

Point 1:

“Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing (and profiting from) one out of every four abortions in the United States.”

At first, this might seem redundant to my first point above. But, as Yoest points out in the article, in reference to the above point:

“In 2009, abortion was a “service” that Planned Parenthood provided to 12 percent of its patients overall, and to 97.6 percent of its patients who reported themselves pregnant. It performed 332,278 abortions in that one year alone. That is an average of 910 abortions each and every day.

Since the average cost of an early surgical abortion was $451 (according to the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate”), abortion accounted for approximately 37 percent of Planned Parenthood’s health-care-center income in 2009. And that figure — nearly $150 million in revenue from abortion — is a low estimate, considering that Planned Parenthood also performs later and more expensive abortions.

In terms of time, money, and unduplicated patients — rather than the bloated “services” rhetoric — abortion contributes significantly more than the 3 percent Ms. Coleman implies to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line.”

Well, well, well, not only does PP murder helpless unborn infants, it profits significantly from so doing! Isn’t that surprising? Furthermore, as Yoest so rightly observes, the estimate that PP receives $150 million in revenue from abortion is a conservative one! Does something smell funny, anyone? Add this to the fact that:

Point 2:

“Planned Parenthood increases its abortion numbers with each passing year, bucking the nearly 20-year national trend of a decreasing abortion rate.”

So, not only does PP want to increase the astronomical number of murders they commit daily, despite the trend of decreasing numbers of abortions in the US, they want to make even more money right along with it! More abortions equals more money, and more money equals more abortions. The two go hand-in-hand. Yoest continues:

“Today, Planned Parenthood performs nearly double the number of abortions it did in 1999. And over the last twelve years — during which the amount of taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives has, coincidentally, also doubled — it has dramatically reduced the other pregnancy-related services it provides. In 2009, Planned Parenthood made referrals for only 997 adoptions, in contrast to the 2,999 referrals it made in 1999. Similarly, Planned Parenthood’s clients for prenatal care dropped from 18,878 to only 7,021.

Abby Johnson, the former director of Planned Parenthood’s clinic in Bryan, Texas, reports that, in 2009, her clinic was given an increased abortion quota in order to raise revenue. (According to Mrs. Johnson, “the assigned budget always included a line for client goals under abortion services.”) Mrs. Johnson has said that her superiors gave her “the clear and distinct understanding that I was to get my priorities straight, that abortion was where my priorities needed to be because that’s where the revenue was.”

The latest annual report for the affiliate Ms. Coleman headed before she assumed her current post, Planned Parenthood of Mid-Hudson Valley (PPMHV), seems to corroborate Mrs. Johnson’s claim that Planned Parenthood is increasing abortion services with an eye toward increased revenue. PPMHV is relocating its consolidated clinics to open larger and more “modern” facilities, which, notably, have “the addition of surgical abortion services.” The PPMHV report “anticipates” that these new centers will lead to “increasing our revenue and sustainability.”

Planned Parenthood’s new use of Skype to dispense abortion-inducing drugs and its mandate that all affiliates provide abortion services by 2013 also indicate that the organization wants its abortion-increasing trend to continue.”

Why, surprise, surprise, PP is becoming more and more about abortion, and less and less about providing other pregnancy-related health services. It couldn’t be about the money? Could it? Maybe PP just takes sadistic pleasure in murdering thousands of defenseless unborn infants every year? Or maybe this is being brought about through some combination of greed and whatever sadistic pleasure PP finds in mass murder on a prodigious scale.

Point 3:

“Planned Parenthood affiliates have failed to be good stewards of taxpayer funds.”

My word, this is really a shocker. Not.

“In some cases where Planned Parenthood has not been legally allowed a “financial cushion” through a government health-care program, it has felt entitled to build one for itself. For example, a California audit report showed that in one year alone Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties received $5 million more than it should have because of improper billing practices.

And contrary to Ms. Coleman’s claim, Planned Parenthood does have sources of money other than the government dole. In fact, for its fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its affiliates reported receiving $308.2 million in “Private Contributions and Bequests.” It also made $404.9 million in “Health Center Income.” Though individual affiliates have recorded losses, Planned Parenthood overall reported an “excess of revenue over expenses” of $63.4 million in 2009.”

If this isn’t proof of an immoral and corrupt organization that cares for monetary profit over all else, I don’t know what is.

Point 4:

“Planned Parenthood fights reasonable laws to protect women and girls because such laws might undermine its ability to make money.”

“Planned Parenthood’s consistent and financially motivated opposition to federal and state legislation designed to protect women and girls makes clear that its abortion business trumps its professed concern for these women and girls. Just this spring, a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Illinois fought a bill to make reporting of sex abuse mandatory, because Planned Parenthood allegedly feared that the legislation might overload the responsible agency with too many cases of suspected abuse.

Planned Parenthood’s longstanding efforts across the nation to overturn common-sense laws that safeguard women’s health and safety further underscore the organization’s pattern and practice of refusing to make caring for women a priority. Just a few years ago, Planned Parenthood challenged a Missouri law that required abortion clinics to meet the same standards as the ambulatory-surgery centers in the state. Its reason? Bringing its clinics into compliance with these medically accepted standards would be prohibitively costly.”

Yoest concludes the article:

Point 5:

“Planned Parenthood partners with those who sexually abuse and exploit women and girls.”

“Substantial evidence suggests that Planned Parenthood — far from being a defender of women and girls — defends and abets those who sexually abuse and exploit them. Planned Parenthood has shown itself to be a perfect partner to the pimp, sex trafficker, or child abuser. It hides his crimes through its willful failure to report suspected sexual abuse of children to authorities and its refusal to comply with parental-involvement laws. For example, Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona was found negligent and civilly liable for failing to report the sexual abuse of a young girl who was being raped by her foster brother, and Planned Parenthood Minnesota/North Dakota/South Dakota was fined $50,000 for ignoring Minnesota’s parental-notice law. Planned Parenthood’s failure to intervene in cases of abuse reflects a lack of concern for the women and girls who go to Planned Parenthood seeking trustworthy care and counsel.

One of Ms. Coleman’s five “myths” is the assertion that “People do not really need Planned Parenthood.” The truth is this: People do not need Planned Parenthood to stay in the abortion business (nor to annually increase its stake in it). People do not need Planned Parenthood to protect adult men who prey on and abuse young girls. People do not need Planned Parenthood’s anti-woman, bottom-line-oriented view that pushes abortion at the expense of women’s health and safety. Above all, people do not need Planned Parenthood’s scandal-ridden and abortion-heavy business practices to be subsidized by taxpayer dollars.”

In the interest of money, then, PP is willing not only to destroy the lives of thousands of unborn infants every year, but also to encourage rapists and the like by protecting them from the law! It is sickening, although not very surprising given the founding principals and flagrant immorality of the organization, that PP stoops to such foul methods of obtaining monetary profit. As Yoest says: “People do not need Planned Parenthood’s anti-woman, bottom-line-oriented view that pushes abortion at the expense of women’s health and safety.”

Now, let me be clear: I am not “against cheap mammograms, blood tests, and other pre-natal care”, nor am I “pro-AIDS” or “pro-cancer”. But when these inexpensive ‘services’ are rendered by an organization that provides 27% (and rising) of abortions in the US, an organization whose primary ‘service’ (35% of all ‘services’ provided) is contraception; an organization that is more concerned about profit (and therefore, abortion) than the care it provides; an organization that promotes the abuse of women instead of protecting them; it comes down to weighing the positives against the negatives. Simply put: does PP save more lives than it destroys? Help more families than it tears apart? Give more than it takes? No, no, no, a thousand times NO! Add together all the possible cases where PP has saved a life. Perhaps, for example, they might have caught many people’s cancer before it reached a critical stage. Then consider that PP murders on average 910 innocent lives daily and wants nothing more than to increase that statistic, that PP is more concerned about money than its patients or the ‘services’ it provides, and that it will do anything to increase its revenue, such as encouraging the abuse of women by hiding crimes of sexual abuse! There is no conflict here; the harm that comes from the existence of the abomination that is ‘Planned Parenthood’ astronomically outweighs any good that that organization does. Even in the hypothetical situation that PP destroyed only one life annually, or that it only provided contraceptives and no abortions, that would in no way justify the organization’s continued existence, and would still present far more than sufficient reason for the downfall of the entire operation.

This is why I am entirely and utterly against Planned Parenthood. It is an evil, immoral atrocity, and merits only my hatred, disgust, and complete opposition. As long as I live, I will never cease to advocate this organization’s downfall, as its continued existence is an offense against morality, human rights, and human life itself.

Advertisement