Planned Parenthood’s PLAN for YOU
Plan A
Provide poor quality, faulty birth control. In its February 2005 issue of Consumer Reports, the non-profit Consumers Union ranked two of Planned Parenthood’s condom lines the lowest out of all the brands that they tested.
Plan B
Encourage daily hormonal treatment. PP encourages young women to begin a daily regimen of hormonal birth control, and they placate fears about side effects by saying that modern hormonal contraceptives are safer than earlier iterations because they contain smaller amounts of hormones, even though there are still dangerous side effects like death. Should something go wrong though, they’ll then offer you those same hormones in massive doses (the “morning after pill” which can cause early abortions), claim it’s perfectly safe, and hope you won’t notice they’re contradicting themselves.
Plan C
Offer deceptive counseling and biased information. If things didn’t go so well with the condoms and birth control, and pregnancy does occur, then Planned Parenthood offers “options counseling” to help decide a course of action. However, dozens of former employees have blown the whistle on the unscrupulous nature of PP’s “options counseling,” acknowledging that it was commonly used to steer women towards abortion (which they profit from) instead of adoption or parenting (which they don’t get paid for). In 2011, PP performed 145 abortions for every 1 adoption referral and has now mandated that every affiliate performs abortions.
Plan $$$$$$:
Money, money, money. According to the Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood’s research arm), the median cost of an abortion is $451. This means PP made over $150 million in revenue from the 333,965 abortions they performed in 2011. For years, Planned Parenthood officials, staff, and surrogates have repeatedly promoted false information about the services they offer (falsely claiming they provide mammograms, etc) and the uniqueness of their work to convince politicians to give them $542 million in taxpayer funding just in the 2011-2012 fiscal year alone.
Community Health Centers
However, everything PP sells and provides (except abortion) can be found within the nationwide network of 8,000 taxpayer-funded Community Health Centers at universally lower prices. They provide services such as STD testing/treatment, pregnancy tests, and routine gynecological exams. You can locate a health center at www.nachc.com/findahealthcenter.cfm.
Other Community Organizations
Unlike Planned Parenthood, ASU Students for Life's nonprofit community partners do not profit financially from any decisions that a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy will make and are able to provide honest and objective counseling. Additionally, these organizations will provide pregnant or scared women with a pregnancy confirmation lab test, options counseling, abortion information, and a no-obligations ultrasound--all for free!
Planned Parenthood by the numbers
- 44% of abortions are performed on women 18-24 years old.
- 80% of Planned Parenthood facilities are located within 5 miles of a college or university campus.
- 92% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services were abortions in 2011.
- 915 abortions are committed by Planned Parenthood every day.
- 333,964 abortions were performed by Planned Parenthood facilities in 2011, their largest annual total ever, more than any other provider.
- $150,000,000 is the amount of revenue Planned Parenthood made from abortions in 2011.
- $542,000,000 is the total taxpayer dollars Planned Parenthood received in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
All non-hyperlinked figures are taken directly from Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s 2011-2012 Annual Report.
Material prepared by Students of Life of America. Used with permission.
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