The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) disclosed the latest figures in its 2012 annual report, which
covers October 2011 through September 20, 2012.
Planned
Parenthood
performed 327,166 abortions last fiscal year while collecting more than
half-a-billion dollars from U.S. taxpayers … according to its most recent
annual report. The numbers represent a
modest decrease from 2011 levels, when Planned
Parenthood performed a record setting 333,964 abortions and collected
$542.4 million … or 45.2% of its total revenue from government funding.
Rita Diller, National Director of American Life League said, “Once again,
the abortion industry figures show a business in decline.” The Susan
B. Anthony List noted, “In 2012, abortions made up 93.8% of Planned Parenthood's pregnancy services,
while prenatal care and adoption referrals accounted for only 5.6% (19,506) and
0.6% (2,197), respectively. For every
adoption referral, Planned Parenthood
performed 149 abortions.”
Planned
Parenthood
reported a total of 3-million clients in 2012, meaning that 11% of all Planned Parenthood clients received an
abortion. The figures are significant,
as PPFA continues to maintain that ‘abortion
services’ represent only 3% of its overall functions – a number that it arrives
at by separating abortion out from a bundle of other services that a client may
receive at the same time as undergoing the abortion.
In addition to direct abortions, Planned Parenthood distributed 1,590,133
‘emergency contraception’ kits … which can work as an abortifacient. At least 3,225,030 of Planned Parenthood's 10,933,765 reported services provided abortion
or potentially abortion-inducing drugs to women. These business ventures generated $1.21 billion
in total revenue … allowing the nation's largest abortion provider to turn a
$58.2 million profit in 2012.
I’ve written far more extensively on
the ‘Sanctity of Human Life’ in my latest issue of The Clarion Call. You can
pull-down a pdf copy at www.fortsnellingmcf.org in Volume 3 Issue 1.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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