{"id":166421,"date":"2017-05-25T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166421"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:30:30","slug":"politifact-says-true-planned-parenthood-americas-largest-abortion-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/politifact-says-true-planned-parenthood-americas-largest-abortion-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact says TRUE: Planned Parenthood is America&#8217;s largest abortion provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>PolitiFact&#8217;s Wisconsin branch at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/statements\/2017\/may\/15\/glenn-grothman\/glenn-grothman-says-planned-parenthood-leading-abo\/\">fact checked<\/a> the claim that &#8220;Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country&#8221; after it was iterated by Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) in a downhill meeting held\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uKwmAFtxi1k?t=17m54s\">April 30, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MUO4-auDFYg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"center\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact, typically\u00a0known for <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/politifact-abortion-fact-checking-really-political-hackery\/\">having a bias in favor of abortion<\/a>, examines the most recent comparative data available, reports from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/sites\/default\/files\/article_files\/abortion-incidence-us.pdf\">Guttmacher Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/files\/2114\/5089\/0863\/2014-2015_PPFA_Annual_Report_.pdf\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> from 2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s no complete, centralized database that tallies abortions, much less breaks that number down by providers.<\/p>\n<p>But there is strong indirect evidence backing Grothman\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood self-reports that 323,999 abortions were performed at its facilities nationwide for the year ending September 30, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>That represents 35 percent of the 926,200 U.S. abortions estimated for calendar year 2014, the latest year studied by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and advocacy organization whose survey-based data on abortions is widely quoted by both sides in the abortion debate.<\/p>\n<p>Grothman maintains 49 percent of abortions are performed by Planned Parenthood. That\u2019s because he uses the smaller base of 664,000 abortions &#8212; the figure reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number is based on voluntary reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surprisingly, PolitiFact also notes that &#8220;Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion services grew rapidly between 2000 and 2015, rising by 127,000 procedures at a time when the total number of abortions nationwide was falling significantly,&#8221; and concludes the organization&#8217;s national network of clinics makes it by far &#8220;the undisputed leader when it comes to providing abortion services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160409\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DefundAd-400b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grothmann&#8217;s statement has received a &#8220;TRUE&#8221; rating from PolitiFact, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2013\/nov\/01\/principles-politifact-punditfact-and-truth-o-meter\/\">highest of the six ratings across the &#8220;Truth-O-Meter.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact is a creation of the <em>Tampa Bay Times\u00a0<\/em>and garnered the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em> staff a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/prize-winners-by-category\/209\">Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009<\/a>, following its coverage of the 2008 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PolitiFact&#8217;s Wisconsin branch at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently fact checked the claim that &#8220;Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country&#8221; after it was iterated by Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) in a downhill meeting held\u00a0April 30, 2017. PolitiFact, typically\u00a0known for having a bias in favor of abortion, examines the most recent comparative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":166422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[20722,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PolitiFact says TRUE: Planned Parenthood is America&#039;s largest abortion provider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite its usual pro-abortion bias, PolitiFact admits that Planned Parenthood&#039;s network of facilities makes it &quot;the undisputed leader&quot; for abortions.\" \/>\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\/politifact-says-true-planned-parenthood-americas-largest-abortion-provider\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PolitiFact says TRUE: Planned Parenthood is America&#039;s largest abortion provider\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite its usual pro-abortion bias, PolitiFact admits that Planned Parenthood&#039;s network of facilities makes it &quot;the undisputed leader&quot; 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