Planned Parenthood’s Phony 3% Claim

In order to justify its mammoth commitment to providing abortions, Planned Parenthood claims that only 3% of its “services” are abortion. Randy O’Bannon of National Right to Life has examined this claim and found it to be false. What Planned Parenthood does is count all of its services — abortions, pregnancy tests, birth control packets, condoms, etc., — as if they were equivalent services, even though abortion is considerably more expensive and profitable.

According to O’Bannon, “The truth is that, at going rates, the 332,378 abortions Planned Parenthood performed in 2009 would easily account for not 3%, but at least a third of the group’s clinic revenues. That’s nearly $150 million, hardly an inconsequential amount.”

Planned Parenthood also claims that none of the governments funding it receives goes for abortions. This is specious. Even if PP only spent taxpayer monies on other overhead items, it frees up the PP budget to use what it “saved” on overhead on other things — like abortions and abortion promotion.

Planned Parenthood is aptly and justly named the abortion giant. That is our label and we are sticking to it.

Barbara Lyons