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The Daily Signal
Almost a Third
of Abortions Performed at Planned Parenthoods
Kate Scanlon
June 25, 2015
Planned Parenthood is performing almost a third of abortions in the
United States, according to a new report by Americans United for Life.
The report, titled “The New Leviathan: The Mega-Center Report, How
Planned Parenthood Has Become Abortion, Inc.,” shows that the nation’s
largest abortion provider has gone from performing one in five
abortions in the United States to nearly one in three.
Using primarily Planned Parenthood’s own data, AUL argues that Planned
Parenthood is embracing a more “abortion-centric” business model.
Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy-related services include abortion,
adoption referrals, and prenatal care. Ninety-four percent of these
services were abortions. For every one adoption referral, the
organization performed 201 abortions.
Despite their growing abortion business, Planned Parenthood is treating
fewer patients. Their client base has declined by almost 10 percent.
Planned Parenthood has opened “mega centers,” which AUL defines as
“centers or offices of at least 10,000 square feet,” in 19 cities since
2004.
While the number of abortions performed by the organization has
increased, their non-abortion services such as breast cancer screenings
have been slashed by more than 50 percent.
Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest said in
a statement that while Planned Parenthood “deceptively holds itself out
as protecting women’s health, as it cuts legitimate health care in
favor of abortion sales, while lobbying for more taxpayer largesse.”
Planned Parenthood receives over half a billion dollars from taxpayers
each year, constituting about 40 percent of its overall revenue.
“Over the last 45 years, Planned Parenthood has become the expert in
making money from ending lives,” Yoest said.
The Americans United for Life report likens Planned Parenthood to
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan:
“The great 17th century political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, famously
argued that the life of man was bleak—“solitary, poore, nasty, brutish,
and short.” Men are driven by the desire for power, and the fear of
other men’s power, to consent to a “social contract” with the powerful,
sovereign Leviathan. Today, our culture has consented to a new
Leviathan. Under the guise of the pursuit of equality, Planned
Parenthood has leveraged women’s fears against them.”
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