11 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Planned Parenthood
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Depending on what your perspective is, Planned Parenthood is known either as a women's healthcare provider or an abortion mill. Whatever your thoughts are, I think you'll be surprised by the information in this post.
At the time of the writing of this post, there were bunch of undercover videos released implicating PPFA in the apparent selling of infant body parts.
These videos have drawn a lot of attention from both the “pro-life” and the “pro-choice” side, with the pro-life side stating that Planned Parenthood has committed felonies by selling human body parts, and many on the pro-choice side stating that the parts are for medical research, and/or that the videos have been doctored.
I am personally disgusted by these videos, but there are many other things about Planned Parenthood that I think deserve the attention of the media and of all U.S. citizens.
Whatever side of the “life/choice” debate you are on, I hope that you will read these, think about them, and keep an open mind as you do so.
I am more than happy to respond to any and all comments, on both sides of the debate. I did my best to do thorough research and encourage conversation about all of these points.
I'd love to hear what you think about this information.
11 Facts About Planned Parenthood
1. A large amount of Planned Parenthood's income comes from abortion.
Despite the fact that PP supporters continually claim that abortions comprise only 3% of the services that they provide, abortions are a large part of their income. In fact, Planned Parenthood made approximately $163,826,500 from abortions in the 2013 – 2014 year, assuming approximately $500 per abortion, which is a low-end estimation. A second-trimester abortion can cost well over $1,000. For a more detailed explanation of how the 3% claim is inaccurate, go here or here.
Basically, stating that abortion is only 3% of PPFA's operation is similar to saying that car sales are only a small percentage of a car dealership's business. Of course, the dealership provides financing, washes cars, does service on cars, and leases cars, but the primary reason for a car dealer to be in existence is to sell cars.
2. Prenatal Services amount to only 0.27% of all of Planned Parenthood's services.
One of the big claims that PPFA makes is that they provide all kinds of services, besides just abortions, including valuable prenatal services. However, they provide almost none of these. Only 18,684 in 2013 – 2014.
3. Over 46% of Planned Parenthood's income comes from taxpayers.
According to Planned Parenthood's annual report (2013 – 2014), they took in $528,400,000 from “Government Health Services Grants and Reimbursements.” This amount represents 46.12% of their total income.
4. Planned Parenthood has provided low-dose birth control pills, planning for failure and more abortions
See the documentation here, and here. The pills are either received at a PPFA clinic, or PPFA gives out a prescription for the woman to receive them elsewhere.
5. Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, Targeted the Elimination of Blacks, Jews, and More.
Here are some quotes attributed to her:
– Referring to immigrants and Catholics, she wrote: “[They’re] an unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.”
– “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the 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.” — Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
– “[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds … a deadweight of human waste … [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race.” — Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review
6. Planned Parenthood's Founder Advocated Mandatory Sterilization
– “Give dysgenic groups [people with ‘bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review.
7. Planned Parenthood has Aided Sex Trafficking
PPFA has a history of aiding and abetting sex trafficking of girls as young as 14.
8. Planned Parenthood Has Strong Ties to Euthanasia
There are many ties between The American Birth Control League (which later became Planned Parenthood) and the National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia.
9. Planned Parenthood Is Independently Wealthy.
In their 2013-2014 Annual Report, they cite over $1,000,000,000 (1 billion) in net assets. I feel that their continuing to receive federal (taxpayer) funding when they have this amount of resources at their disposal is unethical, particularly when our nation is currently $18 trillion in debt. Here is the current debt clock so you can see the current status of our debt to other nations: https://www.usdebtclock.org/.
10. Planned Parenthood Does Not Provide Mammograms
Contrary to popular belief, the organization only refers for mammograms but has no mammography equipment in any of its clinics.
11. Planned Parenthood's President, Cecile Richards, Earned Almost $600,000 in 2013.
Cecile Richards, PPFA's President earnings in 2013 were $590,928.
The average of the Top 10 PPFA Affiliate's CEO salaries is over $300,000. You can see several charts detailing this information here. (Note — this article was removed after the publication of this post, but you can see information on high-paying jobs at PPFA here.)
UPDATE 8/8/15:
12. Planned Parenthood Targets Minorities
PPFA is willing to accept donations that are earmarked for specific minorities. Listen to the recordings at the bottom of this article.
Conclusion:
This is, of course, not a debate about whether or not abortion is right or wrong, though I am fine talking about that issue. This is merely about concerns I have about Planned Parenthood. About them as a corporation and about what they and their supporters say about them in defense of their practices.
Did you know about any of these facts?
Please share to get the truth out.
Absolutely not condoning it, but M(argaret Sanger was, unfortunately, not the only person in the U.S. with a fascination with eugenics. Science and medicine had been working on this for a few decades. People always like to point: this out about her but are usually ignorant of other prominent people in history involved in eugenics.
“At its peak of popularity, eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill,[126] Margaret Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood),[127][128] Marie Stopes,[129][130] H. G. Wells,[131] Norman Haire, Havelock Ellis, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Robert Andrews Millikan,[132] Linus Pauling,[133] Sidney Webb,[134][135][136] and W. E. B. Du Bois.[137]” (Eugenics-Wikipedia article)
Hi Dusti,
I don’t know about others, but I read this book which was very telling about how eugenics was indeed something espoused by many. Have you read it? https://www.amazon.com/Better-All-World-Sterilization-Americas/dp/B0012D1D3M/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473566253&sr=1-1&keywords=better+for+all+the+world#nav-subnav
Margaret Sanger has been dead for 50 years. I fail to see what relevance her long dead personal opinions have in this discussion. She isn’t running the organization.
She was the founder. It’s always important to look at how things started. Would you say the same thing about the founder of the KKK or of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
You’re awesome! Thank you for writing this!
Thanks, Lisa. I thought it was important to share this information.
Thank you for the excellent job of posting re: PP and Sanger. Peeling away the veneer and shedding light on this organization is a worthy endeavor.
Thank you. They do some good things, but I can’t condone the killing of babies.
these allegations against Planned Parenthood are as ridiculous and trumped up as you can get. If you were a journalism student, you would get an F on this report. Your “sources” are extremely weak, relying on anecdotal data for the most part. Your math on PP income is mostly speculative. These are NOT facts, facts are not based on speculation (which you do with your abortion income figures, you SPECULATE on how much the fees are). Your “facts” are statements that are not supported by real research. They are intended to hit emotions, not logic. Any amount of digging into the “sources” and the real facts will reveal how flimsy your arguments are.
When commenters engage with you point by point, your responses don’t address the true issues raised by the commenters. You stray away from their comments in a meandering fashion, circling back around to continue pushing your agenda. You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but you can’t say you are engaging in a true discussion if you don’t truly address the heart of someones comment.
I don’t have time to sit here and give numerous examples (which there are), but here are a few: You respond to one commenter saying “So I guess, by your last statement, that I shouldn’t have been born. …. So I guess you think I should have been killed.” An inflammatory and emotional response. The commenter NEVER suggested that you should have been killed or never born. In fact, the opposite is true – the commenter supported the mothers choice, and it was your mothers choice to complete the pregnancy. So why do you then twist that statement into “so I guess you think I should have been killed”.
Your sex trafficking “source” – wow, that was beyond uncredible. Someone went in to an office, dressed as a pimp, with someone dressed as an underage prostitute, and because the employees were trying to help and treat the “prostitute” to the best of their ability, they are now “AIDING and ABETTING”. Seriously???? So they are supposed to kick that poor girl out on the street instead?? How is that the Christian thing to do? I thought Christians are supposed to follow “Judge not, lest ye be judged”. What happened to that? Not to mention the fact that health clinics should not be discriminating against their clients!! How would that be legal?? “Wait, please tell me what you do for a living, so I can decide if we should treat you or not.” Or should those poor young girls not be allowed to be treated in a medical facility? Should their treatment be relegated to back alleys? What they did would NEVER be considered “aiding and abetting” by any interpretation of any laws.
These are not 11 facts. They are 11 statements, unsupported by facts. I will no longer pin any of your articles, I don’t want to support this kind of rhetoric.
Hello Theresa.
First of all, thanks for taking the time to comment. I am surprised about your calling these allegations “trumped up” and “ridiculous”, however, and will try to respond. My husband has taught journalism on the college, level, just so you know, and he reviewed this post before it went out so I suspect your stating that I would get an F is incorrect.
Which sources do you claim are anecdotal for the most part? I cited PPFA’s annual report numerous time and I assume you would not dispute their numbers. As for the math, which calculation do you think is speculative? Please point out one statement that is and I am happy to address it.
I actually went with a low end for the abortion fees so I could have gone with a greater number. Do you have a different amount you think would have been more reasonable? And if so, where are you getting it from?
I don’t feel at all that I “stray away from their comments in a meandering fashion” – in fact, I addressed the comments point by point as I am doing with you. I don’t have an “agenda”, but I do attempt to find the truth, as I did in my post on stevia health. https://wholenewmom.com/health-concerns/is-stevia-safe-is-stevia-bad-for-you-stevia-infertility/ If you think something is wrong, point it out clearly and I will address it.
How is my statement about saying that I should have been killed “inflammatory and emotional”? I meant it sincerely. If a child is only to be born into optimal circumstances where he/she is wanted, then well, my father didn’t seem to want me, my grandparents didn’t want me, and I assure you I was born into a low income family. My mother told me the conditions I was born into and they were not good. My father was a poor immigrant from Ireland and I think she said we lived in a tiny place where they eventually found cockroaches in my bassinet. I could share more but I don’t wish to shame my family. The commenter was stating that children born to mothers in bad circumstances are eligible to be killed by their mothers so, I think it is logical to infer that in my situation abortion would have been a very valid outcome in her opinion. Does that clarify my question?
The sex trafficking – that happened over and over again with PPFA. They were found to not reveal the truth of the situation so of course that is aiding and abetting. I have more sources of that if you like. If someone reported to you that they had raped someone and you did nothing about it you would be guilty as well. This is not about whether they help someone or not — it is about not alerting the authorities. That is 2 different things.
You are actually taking the “judge not, lest ye be judged” out of context. Of course we are supposed to judge right and wrong actions, however, we are not supposed to judge people’s souls. If we were not supposed to judge actions then why would God install judges over his people, and why would tell the disciples that they are to not relate to certain people who are not living like believers. Of course we extend grace, but we are still to call sin “sin” and not ignore it.
I wish that you would not choose whether to pin articles by whether or not you agree with my stance on the issue of abortion. I think I do my best to present facts and am always open to changing posts if there is other valid information that I become aware of, but I need to ask you to present something to me such as where you think my math was inaccurate.
Happy to talk more when you respond and thanks again.
I like the way you post on your investigation. How else would we know where to put our dollars, our votes, our work……etc. We investigate if there is integrity that lines up with our values that we can get behind. Investigation can be easier BUT more complicated now with the internet and all the available choices and decisions we are to make IF we want to make them responsibly with some wisdom on a BIGGER truth !!! We can all put on a tunnel vision view on ONE thing—–the wise and responsible thing is to realize that tunnel vision can be expanded for our own benefit for a better view of the truth.
Thanks so much, Jennie.
Thank you, Adrienne, for being brave enough to speak the truth about PP and one of their untouchable idols, Margaret Sanger.
The mainstream media has been working overtime to bury these stories, horrific as they are, but it’s the same old politics, the same old bias that would rather deny the facts and look the other way than to put an end to this shameful holocaust.
An interesting disconnect with so many of the defenders of this unspeakable enterprise is that they will come unglued over seal slaughter or factory farming practices but show no mercy when it comes to the wholesale (I guess I should call it “retail”) murder of human babies.
This is a Nazi-esque horror. (Margaret Sanger inspired some of their ideas, too.)
“What a tragedy that a child must die so that you may live as you please.”, Mother Theresa.
Hi Lynelle. Thanks for the kind words. I too don’t understand the enthusiasm for saving baby animals but not baby humans. I care a lot about animals and very much am against factory farming, but I think we are all hard pressed to not realize that these are babies who are being killed. That quote by Mother Theresa is quite moving. Thanks for sharing.
Unsubscribed! Get a life woman! Get a mammogram somewhere else! Lmao! this is hilarious!!!!
Hi Mandy. I find your email to be interesting. Probably this is a fake email address, but did you mean that to describe yourself or others? I find it hard to believe but is that perhaps really your last name?
In any case, why is that so hilarious especially considering that Planned Parenthood doesn’t even perform mammograms? I find it interesting that folks will unsubscribe simply b/c they disagree with someone even when they are not able to point to something truly wrong with my post. I’m assuming you won’t get this due to the apparent use of a fake email with a profanity in it, but in case you do, please respond with an explanation about how I got the mammogram information wrong. Thanks.
Hi,
You are a brave and courageous woman to take on a topic that makes reasonable logical people become unreasonable and very illogical. But you cannot make them face facts they don’t want to. Today I am SUBSCRIBING because I am a truth lover.
Thanks,
Lorrie
Thanks, Lorrie, and welcome. I am open to being proven wrong, but I don’t think that I am. I appreciate your support. I didn’t mean for this to be a discussion about life, but it naturally followed.
If Muslims chop off people’s heads, we call it “terrorism;” if people chop up babies’ bodies, we call it “women’s health.”
And sometimes we don’t call it “terrorism”. It’s workplace violence. However, the main issue here does seem to be is the baby a baby or not. I agree with you, but just pointing out that many who support abortion do not think that the baby in the womb is, in fact, a baby. However, it was clear from the videos that the people dealing with body parts were calling the babies “boys” so they know that they were babies.
While l definitely agree with defunding Planned Parenthood, l have to say, if people really care, take it one step further. STOP BUYING PRODUCTS FROM COMPANIES THAT BUY ABORTED FETUSES!!! Nestle, Pepsi and Kraft are just a few companies that use them for testing. Then there are the vaccinations containing them. The govt aren’t the only ones held accountable, we are too, every single time we put money in their pockets. Stop putting all the blame on PP and start taking action at home! If there is no market for slaughtering the little angels, they will be forced to stop. Not enough states are going far enough or even doing anything.
That’s about the Sensomyx company, right? It’s very odd. I know many argue that it isn’t a big deal but it doesn’t seem right to me either. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Adrienne, thank you for the courage to expose what Planned Parenthood’s real agenda is. Thank you for not turning a deaf ear to the silent screams of so many babies and their wounded Mommies. We do have to be a voice to those denied the right to life.
Thanks, Donna. I understand that the whole situation is very painful. But we must come down on life. Even if there is debate (which I don’t think there should be) about when human life begins, shouldn’t we err on the side of caution?