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All PPFA Affiliates to be
Required to Perform Abortions Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko
"We have never provided abortions," CEO Amanda Stukenberg told the Corpus Christi Caller. "Our position is that if that is a need in your community, fine. There are far greater needs in our area than abortion. We feel that women here have options. We don't need to duplicate services." The change of direction in PPFA's operations have been clear for several years. They are merging smaller clinics, that aren't as profitable, building highly profitable mega-abortion clinics. That's one way of juicing up the bottom line. The other is so-called "web-cam" abortions, intended to reach "clients" out in the hinterlands. The abortionist is not actually in the same room with the woman. He communicates by means of a video conferencing system, electronically opening a drawer from which the woman takes out the two drugs that make up the "RU-486" chemical abortion regime: misoprostol and mifepristone. More large (and profitable) abortion clinics, plus a massive outreach to what PPFA likes to call "underserved" populations=a huge upswing in income for what is already a $1 billion corporation. Now, the insistence that all PPFA affiliates perform abortion, which are very profitable. The story in Corpus Christi Caller says that PPFA did not return phone calls and that it is unknown if any other affiliates are following Family Planning of the Coastal Bend in un-affiliating. As we discussed last Friday, PPFA just released its 2008-09 Annual Report for filling in some of the gaps in a "Factsheet" produced in September. Combined, we know (to mention just two conclusions) *that abortions had jumped a whopping 6% to 324,008 while the number of adoption referrals had dropped by more than 10%. We don't have reliable national count yet for 2008, but considered as a percentage of the latest national annual abortion figure the Guttmacher Institute reported for 2005, this would make Planned Parenthood responsible for 26.8% of all abortions performed in the U.S. This easily cements their place as America's top abortion chain. * that PPFA received $363 million from the government (in the form of grants and contracts. PPFA's 2008-2009 Annual Report does not break out what portion of that $363 came from the FEDERAL government. But the attached chart does show the correlation between increased government funding to PPFA and increased abortions conducted by PPFA. |
If
you've had the opportunity to read the many insightful analyses
provided by NRLC's Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon, it'll come as no
surprise that Planned Parenthood is going to "standardize its
operations" and reportedly require all affiliates to perform abortions.
That news spilled out in a story written by a local Texas
newspaper covering the decision of what is now known as the
Family Planning of the Coastal Bend to drop its affiliation with
PPFA.