{"id":165195,"date":"2017-04-25T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=165195"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:00:38","slug":"planned-parenthoods-decreasing-health-care-services-prove-it-should-be-defunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-decreasing-health-care-services-prove-it-should-be-defunded\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Planned Parenthood&#8217;s decreasing health care services prove it should be defunded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Planned Parenthood and its allies are insistent that women rely upon the abortion giant &#8212; not for abortions, but for vital health care. Cecile Richards has routinely argued that millions of women rely on Planned Parenthood for services like breast exams and cancer screenings; women who don&#8217;t have insurance or access to health care need Planned Parenthood to get things like Pap tests, the organization claims. But this simply isn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n<p>Live Action&#8217;s newest video exposes Planned Parenthood and its\u00a0declining health care services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJeLTE7aG78\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video, Richards herself gives varying numbers for Planned Parenthood&#8217;s clientele &#8212; anywhere from 2.5 million to 3 million patients a year. And indeed, the number of patients Planned Parenthood sees has dropped. Between 2011 and 2017, it fell by half a million, to be specific. The\u00a0abortion corporation has\u00a0had to shut down more than\u00a0200 facilities.<\/p>\n<p>And Planned Parenthood&#8217;s health care services have plummeted as well. Between 2004 and 2014, Planned Parenthood&#8217;s breast exams have decreased by 60 percent, leaving the organization to perform less than 2 percent of United States breast exams; cancer screenings have decreased by 68 percent, with less than 2 percent of cancer screenings being performed at Planned Parenthood; and Pap tests have decreased by 77 percent, currently accounting for less than 1 percent of all Pap tests in the country.<\/p>\n<p>But while Planned Parenthood is seeing fewer women than ever, and its\u00a0health care services are rapidly dropping, there&#8217;s one service that it has\u00a0no trouble providing &#8212; the one that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-says-abortion-is-vital-heres-what-it-really-is\/\">Cecile Richards describes as &#8220;vital&#8221;<\/a>: abortion. In fact, during that same period, the number of abortions Planned Parenthood performed <em>rose<\/em> by 27 percent, even as Planned Parenthood was seeing fewer\u00a0women in its\u00a0facilities. The abortion giant currently performs more abortions than any other organization in the country\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0over 300,000 abortions each year, accounting for approximately 34 percent of all abortions in the United States. That averages out to 887 abortions every day, or one abortion every 97 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood&#8217;s taxpayer funding has skyrocketed to over $500 million annually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DefundAd-400b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This information is <em>exactly<\/em> why Planned Parenthood should not be receiving taxpayer funding any longer. The facts simply do not lie, and try as they might to convince people otherwise, Planned Parenthood is not a health care organization. It\u00a0receives half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding, ostensibly to provide health care to women in need, and it is\u00a0failing to do that. That funding\u00a0should be redirected to legitimate health care clinics, like FQHCs or community health clinics, that provide comprehensive care to women in need\u00a0and\u00a0where health care is the priority\u00a0&#8212; not abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Join us in <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\">demanding that Planned Parenthood be defunded<\/a> today. This abortion corporation does not deserve to receive any more taxpayer dollars, ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood and its allies are insistent that women rely upon the abortion giant &#8212; not for abortions, but for vital health care. Cecile Richards has routinely argued that millions of women rely on Planned Parenthood for services like breast exams and cancer screenings; women who don&#8217;t have insurance or access to health care need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":128423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Planned Parenthood&#039;s decreasing health care services prove it should be defunded<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From 2004-2014, Planned Parenthood&#039;s breast exams have dropped 60%, cancer screenings by 68%, and Pap tests by 77%; federal funding and abortions increased.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthoods-decreasing-health-care-services-prove-it-should-be-defunded\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planned Parenthood&#039;s decreasing health care services prove it should be defunded\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From 2004-2014, Planned Parenthood&#039;s breast exams have dropped 60%, cancer screenings by 68%, and Pap tests by 77%; 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