May 3, 2010

Editor’s note. The following comes from Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, NRLC’s Minnesota affiliate.

ST.PAUL -- Planned Parenthood announced plans today to build the state's largest abortion center in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood, home to Hamline University, Concordia University, growing ethnic populations and the future Central Corridor light-rail line. Already Minnesota's largest abortionist, Planned Parenthood expects to greatly expand its business under the new Obama health care law.

This photo is of the site of a new Planned Parenthood abortion mega-clinic in Houston, Texas. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota has just announced plans for its own huge abortion clinic in St. Paul.

"We're not surprised to see Planned Parenthood position itself to receive millions more taxpayer dollars under President Obama's new health care mandates," said Scott Fischbach, Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL). "Obama's intent has always been to pour much more public money into Planned Parenthood, and the Minnesota affiliate is poised to build an enormous receptacle for that money."

Planned Parenthood Minnesota's 46,000-square-foot building project is part of the national organization's strategy of building massive abortion centers in major urban areas. Its 78,000-square-foot Houston center, for example, set to open May 11, is being called the largest abortion center in the Western Hemisphere. Similarly colossal centers have opened in Chicago and elsewhere.

Planned Parenthood Foundation of America hailed the passage of Obama's pro-abortion health care overhaul as "a huge victory." The nation's largest abortion business raked in a record $1.038 billion in revenues in 2007 (latest figures), including a staggering $349 million in taxpayer dollars in the form of federal and state government grants and contracts. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, which includes 25 Minnesota "feeder" clinics to send women to St. Paul for abortions, received $5.26 million from federal, state and local governments in 2008.

The new health care law offers it even more. Not only does the law subsidize health plans that cover abortion, it also opens the door to direct federal funding of abortions at so-called Community Health Centers. The law appropriates $11 billion over five years to approximately 1,250 different Community Health Centers, and there are no restrictions to prevent that money from paying for abortions. On its website, Planned Parenthood claims that 850 Community Health Centers are run by Planned Parenthood affiliates.

Statistics show that the more money Planned Parenthood takes in, the more abortions it performs.

"Planned Parenthood’s new abortion center is being positioned to take in many more millions of taxpayer dollars," Fischbach said.

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