By Dave Andrusko

First, a quick apology. Technical problems—grrrr—meant that yesterday’s “National Right to Life News Today” and “Today’s News & Views” were posted very late.

But, second, a “thank you” to those kind readers who took the time subsequently to respond to the stories written by NRLC Director of Education Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Jan2011/nv011111part2.html), and yours truly (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Jan2011/nv011111.html) that probed the abortion numbers for 2008 that came out Tuesday from the Guttmacher Institute.

For those who didn’t have time to read, the last time Guttmacher produced the results of its survey abortions had dropped a stunning 8% between 2000 and 2005. For 2008 there was a slight increase of one half of one percent from 2005. Almost certainly that increase is a product of Guttmacher discovering previously uncounted abortion "providers" and having more success ferreting out information from “abortion providers.”

And although no doubt Guttmacher, formerly PPFA’s in-house think tank would deny it, my strong suspicion is that that Guttmacher’s heart-of-heart answer to a headline posted on CBS News’s Health Blog would be, in fact, there AREN’T enough abortions in America.

Is that unfair of me to deduce? I don’t think so, not at all. Here’s why.

What is the secular idol at which PPFA types worship? That every baby be “planned” and (therefore) “wanted.” Never mind that many/most babies aren’t necessarily planned, or that even when the child is not that doesn’t mean the parents won’t come to “want” him or her.

Until PPFA’s version of Nirvana comes to pass, that means there will always be an “unmet need.” How convenient.

There is also another “unmet need”: money. PPFA is a $1 billion (with a “b”) corporation. Planned Parenthood is already the dominant player in the “abortion provider” business, and every business decision it has made in the past few years signals it is striving for monopoly status.

For instance, PPFA is closing the anti-life equivalent of its “mom and pop” abortion clinics. To take their place, Planned Parenthood is erecting Taj Mahal-esque mega-clinics which will multiply the number of abortions, a lethal application of the “economies of scale.”

Reports out of Texas, moreover, tell us that the national headquarters has sent out marching orders: perform abortions (which are very lucrative), or else. If that weren’t enough, the Des Moines, Iowa based- Planned Parenthood of the Heartland may be about to franchise, so to speak, “web-cam abortions.”

Last month PP of the Heartland signed a contract with Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa "that would, in effect, merge the two entities into one," reports Kurt Ulltrich of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald. "That has sparked local concern that the merger would engender the use of telemed abortions [another name for webcam abortions]." While the local spokesman was non-committal, a letter unearthed by the newspaper strongly suggests that is the game plan.

As you know, web cam abortions use abortifacients (typically RU-486) that are made available electronically by an abortionist who is not in the room with the woman. Increased use of RU-486 shifts the abortion industry to a method that requires less overhead to administer, thereby adding to their ever-increasing bottom line. With the median cost of $490, Guttmacher found for a chemical abortion, the new method represents more than $97.5 million in gross revenues for an industry already making hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Abortion Industry is on the prowl to an extent unmatched in its inglorious history. You and I must be more vigilant than ever.

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