The CHOICE of those we honor on Mother's Day
Posted on 05/08/2002 7:01:46 AM PDT by truthandlife
When it comes to pregnant women deciding between abortion and adoption, more than 98 percent of those women seeking counsel from Planned Parenthood Federation of America ended their pregnancies with abortion in 2000, according to data collected by the organization.
Meanwhile, the number of adoption referrals by PPFA fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2000, to fewer than 2,500.
During the same year, Planned Parenthood clinics around the country performed almost 200,000 abortions, according to statistics available on the organization's Internet website.
Stated another way, Planned Parenthood abortionists performed almost 80 abortions for every adoption referral the organization made in 2000, the data show.
According to Planned Parenthood, there were 9,200 adoption referrals in 1997, but that number had dropped to 2,486 by 2000.
"That's a whopping 73.5 percent decrease from what they were in 1997," said Ed Szymkowiak, spokesman for STOPP International, a subsidiary organization of the American Life League. "During the same time period, Planned Parenthood's abortion procedures increased 19.3 percent."
Big Money in Abortion
According to the Planned Parenthood website, the organization performed 197,070 abortions in 2000, representing tens of millions of dollars annually for the group in a single year.
Officials with PPFA did not respond to repeated telephone calls seeking comment for this article, but a female CNSNews.com staffer who contacted one of the group's abortion clinics Tuesday was informed that the cost of an abortion starts at more than $300.
According to Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., the price of an abortion for a woman who's been pregnant for 12 weeks or less is $325. At 13 weeks, the price rises to $350, with still higher prices for women who are further along in their pregnancies.
Using an average cost of $350 for an abortion, PPFA would have taken in nearly $69 million for abortions in 2000.
"They can make a lot of money from abortion," Szymkowiak said. According to STOPP International, abortions accounted for about 29 percent of PPFA's clinic income.
The American Life League estimates that since 1977, PPFA has made $815 million from an estimated 3 million abortions.
"Abortion and contraception mean big business for Planned Parenthood," said Szymkowiak, who claimed, "Planned Parenthood's entire business relies upon sex education, which corrupts young minds and increases youth promiscuity."
"This in turn establishes a customer base of contraception users, and eventually abortion clients," he said.
Szymkowiak noted that the original mission of Planned Parenthood was to make contraceptives widely available. "Most of [Planned Parenthood founder Margaret] Sanger's emphasis was on birth control, but it easily led to abortion," he said. "We would say it is 'Planned Barrenhood' instead."
But you don't mind this sort of education in our schools? You're willing to use taxpayer's money for the very thing many of you find offensive about Planned Parenthood?
Damn...life sure is cheap. I had no idea it cost so little to have your baby murdered. I am shocked and disgusted.
100% success is impossible in any organization but PP is trying.
Planned Abortions, Inc. make more money form abortions, and there's no nasty 9expensive) leftovers like client stretchmarks (can't call them "mothers" ya know .... Well, I gguess you could call their clients mothers - up until they go in the abortion mill for servicing to the disposals) and adoptive parents state agencies and paperwork lawyers and more meetings and former parents who might sue .......
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