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Imagine there’s an organization that claims
to stand for one thing but actually stands for another. Imagine this organization calls itself a “health
care provider,” but it’s not involved in preserving life; it’s involved in ending
it. And imagine that you help finance this organization,
whether you want to or not. Well, you don’t have to imagine. This organization exists. And it has a name with which you are very
familiar. It calls itself Planned Parenthood, and the
deception begins right there. Planned Parenthood doesn’t help people plan
for parenthood; it helps people escape it. And that’s only the start of its deceptions. Planned Parenthood tells you it’s one of
the nation’s “leading women’s health care providers,” but it provides very little
healthcare. It tells you it provides adoption referrals,
but the only adoption advice it is likely to offer is, “Google it.” Most deceptive of all, Planned Parenthood
tells you that abortions are a small part of what it does, but it performs more abortions
than anyone else in America. Here are the facts. The folks who run Planned Parenthood boast
that they provide life-saving cancer screenings. And they do. Just not that many of them - less than 2 percent
of the nation’s screenings each year. They talk about providing breast exams. They do, but just not that many of them – again,
less 2 percent of the nation’s total. They talk about providing ultrasounds, but
the last thing they want to do is show a pregnant woman an image of her growing child. So, they don’t. The ultrasound is only for Planned Parenthood’s
use – to better facilitate patients’ abortions. In other words, abortion, not women’s health,
is Planned Parenthood’s reason for being. Every year it does more than a third of all
abortions in America – over 321,000 of them. That’s equivalent to every inhabitant of
St. Louis or Pittsburgh – wiped out, every year. That’s over 880 abortions every day. An abortion every 98 seconds. And while the number of total abortions in
the US is going down, Planned Parenthood’s market share of abortions has increased from
23 percent in 2006 to 34 percent in 2016. So, when Planned Parenthood says its devoted
to women’s reproductive rights, what it means is it’s devoted to aborting as many
babies as possible. And here’s the biggest deception of them
all. Planned Parenthood would like you to believe
that abortion is only 3 percent of the total services they provide. 3 percent. Doesn’t sound like very much, does it? But here’s how they get to that 3 percent. They count every “discrete clinical interaction”
as its own service. What is a “discrete clinical interaction”? Pretty much anything you do from the moment
you walk into one of their clinics. I’ll give you an example. Let’s say a woman comes into Planned Parenthood
for one service — an abortion. Before providing an abortion, Planned Parenthood
has to confirm that the woman is pregnant, right? So, they administer another service — a
pregnancy test. That’s two services! Then, after the abortion, on your way out
the door, they hand you a prescription. That’s three services! And there are many other services provided
during the abortion process that Planned Parenthood claims as “discrete clinical interactions.” In this way, Planned Parenthood is able to
rack up 9.5 million of these so-called “services” each year. Divide the number of abortions, 321,000, by
9.5 million, and you get 3 percent. Even the Washington Post, a Planned Parenthood
ally, declared this 3 percent figure “very misleading.” Rich Lowry of National Review nicely illustrated
this phony statistic: It would be like Major League Baseball saying they sell 20 million
hot dogs, but only play 2,430 games, so baseball is only .012 percent of what they do. So, why does Planned Parenthood engage in
all these deceptions? Well, as they say, follow the money. According to federal law, the United States
government is not permitted to spend taxpayer money on abortions. But Planned Parenthood receives over $500
million a year in federal funding. Not for abortions, mind you. But for those other “discreet clinical interactions.” Over the last 10 years, its annual clientele
has dropped 23 percent, almost a quarter. But during this time its taxpayer funding
has skyrocketed from $336 million in 2006 to $543 million in 2016. The reality is, just about everything about
Planned Parenthood is a deception. Its purpose, its funding, its very name. That’s why Planned Parenthood’s biggest
enemy isn’t conservatives or religious people. Its biggest enemy is truth. I’m Lila Rose, founder and President of
Live Action, for Prager University.











