{"id":159542,"date":"2017-01-11T11:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=159542"},"modified":"2017-01-11T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:46:39","slug":"how-abortion-chain-planned-parenthood-masquerades-as-a-health-care-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/how-abortion-chain-planned-parenthood-masquerades-as-a-health-care-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"How abortion chain Planned Parenthood masquerades as a health care provider"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood and friends continually claim that abortion is only a small\u00a0percentage of the organization’s services (three percent), and that their business\u00a0is mainly about providing healthcare. But if we dissect\u00a0Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual reports, another story emerges. This story goes back nearly two decades, to when the organization began gradually adding in various “services” to its annual reports. I found several interesting tidbits in the ‘wayback machine’ of Planned Parenthood’s reports, which I’ll review later. But first on the list…<\/p>\n

Fetal Tissue Donation<\/strong><\/p>\n

While\u00a0Planned Parenthood has been in the news for the past year and a half regarding its role in the trafficking of fetal body parts, one thing they have never shied away from is how proud they are of their participation in fetal tissue donation. In reviewing the abortion chain’s past annual reports, it appears Planned Parenthood has been boasting of\u00a0its fetal tissue donation program as far back as the year 2000.<\/p>\n

The American public has only recently become aware of Planned Parenthood’s horrific fetal tissue research program. In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) exposed the gruesome way the abortion business harvests the body parts of the babies they abort. Live Action News previously documented<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Planned Parenthood’s abortion rate was higher at centers who were part of the scandal. As a result of CMP’s investigative reporting, a Congressional investigation<\/a> was opened. The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives<\/a>\u00a0found that the abortion business, which receives half a billion in federal tax dollars a year, violated several laws, prompting a Senate Judiciary Committee to recommend\u00a0Planned Parenthood Federation of America and four Planned Parenthood affiliates to the FBI and the Department of Justice for criminal referrals<\/a> regarding their fetal tissue practices and transfers.<\/p>\n

What the public may be unaware of is that the fetal tissue donation program was actually mentioned in Planned Parenthood’s 2000-2001 annual report.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is well known that by 2000, Planned Parenthood was fully absorbed in the practice of donating – as they called it – parts of aborted babies for research, which might explain why the organization appears to boast about their fetal tissue project, writing that their national staff are “recognized authorities on all aspects of reproductive health” and that they had in that past year “coordinated 61 new affiliate services and approved a range of new medical services at the 2000 PPFA National Medical Committee Meeting including those related to…\u00a0fetal tissue donation<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood mentions fetal tissue donation ion 2000-2001 annual report<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition to this historical artifact from Planned Parenthood’s annual reports, there are other informative gems hidden away, including…<\/p>\n

Prenatal Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shockingly, at one time, prenatal care appeared to be Planned Parenthood’s “fastest growing area.”<\/p>\n

This was how Planned Parenthood described the service in their 1996-1997 annual report:<\/p>\n

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Prenatal care PP 1996-97 annual report<\/p><\/div>\n

But Planned Parenthood’s short-lived initiative to “implement a comprehensive prenatal care model” appears to have failed. The truth is that abortion has always been Planned Parenthood’s focus, which might explain why this once “fastest growing service” dropped nearly 44 percent from\u00a02010 to 2014.<\/p>\n

Mammograms<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Action has documented<\/a>\u00a0the deceptive way that Planned Parenthood describes its\u00a0breast care services, implying that the abortion business provides mammograms when it does\u00a0not. Those who oppose Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0defunding have even erroneously argued to Congress (and elsewhere) that the organization provides this vital health care service. When Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards appeared on The Joy Behar Show to oppose ending Planned Parenthood\u2019s taxpayer subsidies, she claimed that \u201cmillions of women in this country are gonna lose their healthcare access\u2013not to abortion services\u2013to basic family planning, you know, mammograms.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few years ago, Live Action blew the lid off this deception, when an investigator called 30 Planned Parenthood facilities in 27 different states<\/a> inquiring about mammograms, and was told by several Planned Parenthood staffers that no Planned Parenthood facility provides them:<\/p>\n