Washington, D.C. (28 September 2010) – “Far from being a benevolent ‘comprehensive women’s health organization,’ Planned Parenthood is making ‘strategic business decisions’ to funnel resources into its medical and surgical abortion business,” said Rita Diller, national director of American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood International (STOPP) project. “Why? Very simply, because that’s where the money is.”
When Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) announced last week it would close its Trinidad, Colorado, facility at the end of this month, it inadvertently admitted it is closing down a facility that does not engage in medical and surgical abortions because it wants to rechannel its resources into its lucrative medical and abortion business.
“[The closure of the Trinidad facility] was certainly a strategic business decision, and (it) will allow us to invest more resources into our other health centers,” said Monica McCafferty, PPRM’s media relations specialist. She then cited two Planned Parenthood facilities that will benefit from the rechanneling of resources: Colorado Springs and Glenwood Springs.
Diller pointed out, “The Trinidad facility lists ‘abortion referrals’ among its offerings, while Colorado Springs and Glenwood Springs are in the medical (abortion pill) or surgical abortion business, which are highly lucrative for Planned Parenthood.
“This admission further confirms the testimony of former Bryan/College Station Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson, who charges that Planned Parenthood is pushing for more abortions in order to improve its financial bottom line.”
Planned Parenthood’s body count reflects that strategy. The abortion numbers it has released show an increase, even during the years when national numbers have decreased.
Planned Parenthood has committed almost 5 million medical and surgical abortions since 1970. In 1990, it owned 8 percent of the abortion market. Today, it owns 26.8 percent of that market. In 2008, it raked in over $152 million from its abortion business, while pocketing at least $349 million in government grants and contracts.
“We are daily confronted with more evidence that Planned Parenthood is a toxic, agenda-driven business that seeks to profit from aborting and sexualizing our children,” Diller said. “It is time to end the annual taxpayer windfall that provides Planned Parenthood with more ‘resources’ to peddle its deadly wares.”
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
- American Life League: Stop Planned Parenthood http://www.stopp.org/
- Trinidad Times: Planned Parenthood Set to Close (17 September 2010) http://trinidad-times.com/planned-parenthood-set-to-close-p878-1.htm
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