{"id":209462,"date":"2019-08-29T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=209462"},"modified":"2019-08-27T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:47:29","slug":"planned-parenthood-titlex-pipeline-birth-control-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-titlex-pipeline-birth-control-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood\u2019s refusal of Title X funds reveals pipeline between birth control and abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>)\u00a0Despite their public statements to the contrary, Planned Parenthood did not turn down $60M in Title X federal funds because a new \u201cgag rule\u201d is against their freedom of speech (the new federal \u201cProtect Life Rule\u201d prohibits Title X recipients from referring for abortion).<\/p>\n

Nor did Planned Parenthood turn down Title X because they are so committed to \u201cwomen\u2019s reproductive health\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0however skewed it is to think that an abortion referral could ever be construed as \u201chealth care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor did Planned Parenthood turn down the money because it would be too onerous to separate their abortion services from their Title X funded services in geographical location and financial recordkeeping as the new federal rule requires (much smaller faith-based groups that receive federal dollars comply willingly with similar requirements that separate their tax-funded services from their faith-based ones).<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood\u2019s refusal to accept the conditions of the Title X grant proves, without a doubt, how closely tied contraception is to abortion in their strategy.<\/p>\n

A required service for Title X recipients is comprehensive family planning (not including abortion).\u00a0 Planned Parenthood\u2019s \u201ccash cow\u201d is abortion. How are the two connected?<\/p>\n

The first time I became aware of the connection was years ago when I first heard Carol Everett’s story. She was the owner of several Texas abortion clinics before she became pro-life and authored Blood Money<\/em><\/a>. The sooner she and her staff could get girls and women on the pill (they aimed for middle school), the sooner they would get pregnant (because of contraceptive failure rates), and the sooner Carol\u2019s abortion clinics would provide abortion as the \u201cback up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carol\u2019s business plan was based on their family planning clients having multiple abortions before graduating from high school.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Studies: Over half of women seeking abortion are using birth control<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood clinic director, now a pro-life advocate and author of Unplanned<\/em><\/a>, tells a similar story.<\/p>\n

As the clinic director, she thought she was helping women by providing contraceptives. But her Planned Parenthood bosses were really motivated by the \u201cbottom line\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0increasing income from abortions.<\/p>\n

Bring them in for birth control, develop a relationship, sell them an abortion.\u00a0 That was Abby\u2019s assignment.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

After all, once a woman commits to the idea that the worst possible outcome of her sexual activity is a pregnancy, she is a prime candidate for abortion when her contraceptive fails.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood\u2019s \u201cfamily planning\u201d clinics (funded primarily by Title X) are the pipeline for their abortion clinics. If these family planning clinics don\u2019t refer for abortions, might women whose contraception fails find another abortion provider?<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has the nation\u2019s largest chain of abortion clinics, their annual abortion numbers continue to increase<\/a> so that they now perform slightly more than half of all reported abortions in the USA [Live Action News Editor’s Note: According to Planned Parenthood’s annual reported abortions compared to the Guttmacher Institute’s latest abortion statistics, Planned Parenthood currently holds approximately 35-36% of the U.S. abortion market share<\/a>.<\/em>] But the overall number of abortions is decreasing, the \u201cmarket\u201d is getting smaller.\u00a0 All a woman needs to do is google the word \u201cabortion\u201d to find lots of competition for Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n