{"id":83894,"date":"2016-01-04T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=83894"},"modified":"2017-02-21T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:27:39","slug":"analysis-government-funding-increases-planned-parenthoods-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/analysis-government-funding-increases-planned-parenthoods-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: As government funding increases, so does Planned Parenthood’s share of abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An analysis of annual reports published by Planned Parenthood for the past 14 years has revealed that as\u00a0government funding for the organization increased, Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0share\u00a0of the country’s abortions also increased. Since 2000, Planned Parenthood has performed over four\u00a0million abortions and received almost $5 billion in federal tax dollars.<\/p>\n

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Government contributions to Planned Parenthood jumped almost 173 percent between 2000 and 2014. The largest portion of that increase was between 2000 and 2009, when government contributions to Planned Parenthood more than doubled (from\u00a0$202.7 million to $487.4 million).\u00a0By\u00a02014<\/a>,\u00a0taxpayer funding increased further,\u00a0to $553.7 million. And\u00a0as the tax dollars climbed, so did Planned Parenthood’s percentage of overall nationally reported abortions:<\/p>\n

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According to the Guttmacher Institute, which reports even more comprehensively on abortions than the Centers for Disease Control, 14,528,300\u00a0abortions were performed in the U.S. from 2000 to 2011. Using Planned Parenthood’s reported abortion totals for those same years, it appears that overall, 23\u00a0percent<\/em>\u00a0(.228) of all abortions performed in the U.S. were performed by Planned Parenthood during that time.<\/p>\n

However, what truly gives a clearer picture of what’s happening with regard to Planned Parenthood funding and abortion numbers\u00a0is the steady upward climb of the percentage of the “abortion market” captured by Planned Parenthood. In 2000, Planned Parenthood performed just 15 percent of all abortions and received 30 percent (less than a third) of its funding from the government. By\u00a02011, Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0percentage of national abortions had more than doubled<\/em>, with the abortion giant\u00a0cornering\u00a032 percent<\/em> of the abortion market and nearly half<\/em> (45 percent) of its\u00a0funding coming from the taxpayers.\u00a0(Let’s just say that these numbers should make it obvious that their “abortion is just 3 percent of what we do” shtick is\u00a0beyond ridiculous<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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In 2000, when government contributions were at $202.7 million, (less than half of the $553.7 million they received from the government in 2014),\u00a0Planned Parenthood did far fewer abortions, increasing their percentage of the national abortion totals as tax money poured in over the years.<\/p>\n

In 2009, when Planned Parenthood started receiving\u00a0nearly half<\/em>\u00a0its funding from the government,\u00a0the percentage of total abortions reported nationally decreased everywhere –\u00a0except for Planned Parenthood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If Planned Parenthood doesn’t want to be known as an abortion business, it has a funny way of showing it. While Planned Parenthood performed over 4 million abortions over the course of 14\u00a0years, the abortion giant’s adoption referrals\u00a0equated to only\u00a031,950 –\u00a0less than 1\u00a0percent<\/em>\u00a0(.00743)\u00a0of the number of abortions they performed.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Planned Parenthood performed almost 29% of those reported to Guttmacher, referring only 977 women for adoption. The next year, they performed 29% of Guttmacher abortion totals and referred only 841 women for adoption.<\/p>\n

Abortions to adoption referrals:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2000<\/u> – 79.27 to 1<\/p>\n

2009<\/u> (large percentage\u00a0increase in government funding) – 340 to 1<\/p>\n

2010<\/u> – 391 to 1<\/p>\n

Average from 2000-2014<\/u>: 134.54 to 1<\/p>\n

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But that’s not all.<\/p>\n

An analysis performed by Live Action News of other Planned Parenthood “services” reveals that:<\/p>\n