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What you should know about Planned Parenthood!

Planned Parenthood is a high dollar money making organization which receives money from the government as well as automatic contributions from United Way

Following is a partial financial breakdown of Planned Parenthood's income for 2011 (Financial Statement - available on request)

The income of Planned Parenthood is over one billion dollars a year! Here's the percentage breakdown:

• 25 percent from the fees charged at their clinics (abortions, vasectomies, birth control pills)
• 44 percent comes from OUR tax dollars (That's almost 538 million dollars, by the way!)
• 26 percent comes from grants from private foundations and corporations.
• 5.8 percent from various other sources including grants to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood.
• Approximately 218 million of the clinic income came from selling birth control devices. The majority of Planned Parenthood clients use the birth control (abortifacient) pill resulting in a huge profit of millions from selling the pill.

Planned Parenthood states that they are not 'selling' abortion and that they have counselors to offer all their clients alternatives to abortion. Abby Johnson who ran a Planned Parenthood clinic states that she was very pressured to encourage all the pregnant ladies who came into the clinic to have abortions.

Additionally several surveys of clients of Planned Parenthood, revealed a different story. The following survey reported by Human Life International, is typical:

• 60 percent say the counselor had "very strongly influenced them" to choose abortion as the best solution to their problem.
• 90 percent say that there was "a strong chance" they would not have chosen abortion if they "had not been so strongly encouraged to abort".
• Over 60 percent were hoping to find an alternative when they went to Planned Parenthood.
• 95 percent said the counselors gave "little or no biological information" about the unborn baby which the abortion would destroy.
• 80 percent said counselors gave "little to no information" about the potential health risks of abortion.

It seems that the only 'choice' Planned Parenthood is offering is abortion!

Planned Parenthood does a lot of abortions at many of their facilities including the horrible partial birth abortion in which a pre-born infant, often viable, is turned and delivered breech, up to the head, then a scissors is inserted into the head and the brain is suctioned out, killing the infant and collapsing the head so the baby can be more easily delivered.

Here is the way Planned Parenthood describes the partial birth abortion:

"Some providers use a three step D&E procedure instead of the induction method for abortions after 24 weeks. In the first two steps, the cervix is dilated several times until it is wide enough to allow removal of the fetus with grasping instruments."

Planned Parenthood states that they care about the children and the family but actions speak louder than words. Planned Parenthood:

• Is heavily funded by tax monies (Planned Parenthood Financial statement)
• Receives a donation on the National level from United Way funds whether you designate it or not. (United Way informational brochure which shows the breakdown on the national level)
• Is spending thousands of dollars in several states to hold up Informed Consent and Parental consent laws in court, even when they know the law is constitutional, just to prevent these laws from protecting women who choose to abort. (Arizona is one state - there are several others)
• Has fought any efforts to regulate the sanitation at abortion clinics. They advocate that there should be NO standard of cleanliness for abortion clinics and NO protection of any kind for the women who have abortions at the clinics.
• Does not tell women that taking the birth control pill increases their risk of breast cancer by FIFTY PERCENT! (New England Journal of Medicine, July 1992 and several more following studies)
• Goes into the public schools and encourages our young people to be sexually active, perpetuating the myth that there is any kind of `safe' sex, even with condoms (which have a 1 in 10 failure rate when used properly and a higher failure rate in normal use). (New England Journal of Medicine - 4/97)
• Does not warn teens and pre-teens about Sexually Transmitted Disease and that there is an epidemic of STDs among young people right now (some of which is untreatable with antibiotics). (US Govt Statistics)
• Does NOT tell the young people they speak to about abstinence being a good choice despite the fact that many government programs are advocating abstinence to avoid STDs and other complications of being sexually active at too young an age. (See AZ state brochures on this)
• Does NOT admit that surveys polling young people "educated" with Planned Parenthood sex education have a GREATER number of pregnancies and a higher incidence of sexual activity than those not so educated.
• Does not warn women who abort, that 24 out of 27 studies in the last 20 years have shown a greatly increased risk of breast cancer among aborted women. (Brind, Joel et al, Journal of Epideml Comm Health, 1996:50:481-96; New England Journal of Medicine [Corr] 6/19/97)
• Does not admit that a 12 week fetus is fully developed with human brain waves, ability to feel pain and working organs. (Hamilton et al: HUMAN EMBRIOLOGY, 4th ed; Mountcastle, MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY, Time-Life: "Life before Birth")
• Does not warn women that in 25 percent of abortions, serious complications arise including bleeding, infection and future sterility.
• Does not admit the existence of post abortion stress syndrome despite the fact that 85 percent of aborted women get it.
• Chose to NOT provide general health care so they could focus on providing `reproductive services' such as abortion and birth control. (Happened in early 1996 - reason why former director left)

The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger felt that people who were not rich and intelligent should not have children and that the handicapped and mentally handicapped and very poor should be sterilized. According to articles appearing in the internal Planned Parenthood publications, the sentiment among the leaders of Planned Parenthood is very similar to that of the foundress.

Margaret Sanger, before she was involved in Planned Parenthood was active in an organization called "The Protective Society for Children". This organization advocated that children be allowed to continue to labor in the sweat shops at a young age, despite the fact that children were dropping dead from the conditions and bad environment and long hours. In other words, the Society did the opposite of their name - they were not interested in protecting the child but rather interested in protecting the owners of the sweat labor shops who were exploiting the children for monetary purposes. It seems that this deception is being carried through in Planned Parenthood's endeavor to appear `concerned' for the health of the woman and her child. (Hunt, Irene, "THE LOTTERY ROSE")

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