Planned Parenthood Has Profitable Year
By Steve Jordahl, Focus on the Family Correspondent

Abortions have increased, profits are up and federal dollars keep rolling in, according to the 2004 annual report of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

The group performed almost a quarter million abortions last year and netted a profit of $35 million—despite closing some clinics—thanks to a lot of taxpayer funding.

“We estimate that Planned Parenthood took in $104 million from doing abortions, and that that represented about one-third of the total income that they had from their clinics around the country,” said Jim Sedlak, founder and president of STOPP International, an outreach of the American Life League.

“Planned Parenthood insists as a business that every one of their clinics must make money or it gets closed down. It makes no difference what the federation as a whole is doing.”

Nationally, Planned Parenthood took in more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the government in 2004. Randall O’Bannon, director of research for the National Right to Life Committee, said there is an odd silver lining to that number for pro-life Americans.

“Because they are citizens and because they are the ones paying the taxes,” he said, “they have a say” in how their money gets spent.

While Planned Parenthood has little competition in the abortion market, it is vastly outgunned in other areas of women’s health care, according to Dr. Julie Parton, manager of Focus on the Family’s pregnancy resource ministry.

“Young women who have needs in this area of, as Planned Parenthood would call it, ‘reproductive health’ can get a lot of the services at their local pregnancy center,” Parton explained, noting that there are three pregnancy centers in the United States for every Planned Parenthood office.

Planned Parenthood did not return our calls for comment.

Publisher’s Note…

For more information read Behind the Mask: A Hard Look at the Real Agenda of Planned Parenthood which is an eye-opening report that offers the real story on one of the most radical, destructive social forces in our nation. It exposes Planned Parenthood’s horrifying agenda and what’s really going on in this federally funded agency with an annual budget of $450 million and a work force of 22,000 people.