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ONE
ABORTION EVERY 94 SECONDS
National Right to Life releases analysis
of Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report
WASHINGTON – A new analysis from
National Right to Life finds that nearly 1 in every
9 women who go to a Planned Parenthood clinic have
an abortion and that those clinics perform an
abortion in the United States once every 94 seconds.
Those revelations, among others were contained in a
review of the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America’s (PPFA) 2011-2012 annual report conducted
by National Right to Life Director of Education and
Research Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. Dr. O’Bannon is
one of the right-to-life movement’s most
authoritative experts on the abortion giant.
“By their own numbers, Planned Parenthood
continues to show that they are deeply entrenched in
the business of abortion,” said Dr. O’Bannon.
“In 2011, Planned Parenthood clinics performed
333,964 abortions. Even as current data indicate the
total number of abortions in the U.S. has been going
down, Planned Parenthood keeps increasing its share
of the abortion industry performing well over 25% of
the annual estimated total of abortions performed in
the United States.”
Dr. O’Bannon’s analysis also revealed:
• At going rates for a
standard surgical abortion performed at 10 weeks
($451), the 333,964 abortions Planned Parenthood
performed represent an income of at least $150.6
million. (Collectively, the organization showed
nearly $1.2 billion in revenues with more than 45%
of that ($542.4 million) coming in the form of
“Government Health Services Grants and
Reimbursements.”
• Planned Parenthood increased their “adoption
referrals to other agencies” – to 2,300. Even so,
abortions at Planned Parenthood still outnumbered
adoption referrals by a 145-to-1 margin.
• Birth control, breast exams/care, and cancer
screenings (that Planned Parenthood touted as major
issues during the 2012 election campaign) actually
decreased while abortions reached their all time
record.
• Prenatal care – offered at only a handful of PPFA
clinics to begin with – dropped for a second year in
a row, a perfect illustration of how tenuous Planned
Parenthood’s commitment to a woman’s full range of
“reproductive options” truly is.
Dr. O’Bannon’s complete article is available
here:
http://nrlc.co/VmARyk
“Planned Parenthood continues to be the
single-largest abortion provider in the United
States. And regardless of what they say, their data
and their deeds show that abortion continues to take
up a very large percentage of their operations and
focus,” O’Bannon concluded.
Dr. O’Bannon is available to provide
interviews and further commentary on Planned
Parenthood’s latest annual report and their
continued efforts to expand their abortion business.
To arrange an interview, please contact the NRLC
Communications Department at (202) 626-8825.
Founded in 1968,
National Right to Life, the federation of 50 state
right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local
chapters, is the nation's oldest and largest
grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the
flagship of the pro-life movement, NRLC works
through legislation and education to protect
innocent human life from abortion, infanticide,
assisted suicide and euthanasia.
