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Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, told the Texas Tribune<\/a>, \u201cWe see 3 million patients each year across the country. For 97 percent of them, we provide preventive care. Three percent are abortions.\u201d But according to Planned Parenthood\u2019s own Fact Sheet<\/a>, current as of February 2011, Richards\u2019 claim is untrue. Planned Parenthood provided 332,278 abortions in 2009, or in other words, 11% of Planned Parenthood\u2019s 3 million patients got abortions.<\/p>\n

When discussing the best way to prevent an abortion, Richards says, \u201cTo eliminate the nation\u2019s largest family planning provider would be the worst thing you could do.\u201d Actually, no. To eliminate the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider would be one of the best things you could do to prevent an abortion. But Richards is deliberately misrepresenting the situation because eliminating state and federal funding for Planned Parenthood is the issue. And Richards admits that Planned Parenthood will continue even if government funding is cut.<\/p>\n

A defense of abortion wouldn\u2019t be complete without a sob story, of course, and Richards doesn\u2019t disappoint. Manipulating emotions is a skill she uses well. \u201cFor so many places in the country, if there isn\u2019t a Planned Parenthood provider, there isn\u2019t any provider,\u201d she laments. The fact that there are almost 7,000 federally qualified health centers across the country (which you can find here<\/a>) is conveniently ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, told the Texas Tribune, \u201cWe see 3 million patients each year across the country. For 97 percent of them, we provide preventive care. Three percent are abortions.\u201d But according to Planned Parenthood\u2019s own Fact Sheet, current as of February 2011, Richards\u2019 claim is untrue. 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