Not a joke: The billion-dollar Planned Parenthood empire
Planned Parenthood’s annual budget has surpassed $1 billion. Why the hell do they need our tax dollars? From the American Life League:
“It is absolutely incredible,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, “but the annual report just released by Planned Parenthood Federation of America shows that $114 million of the government funds received by Planned Parenthood were not needed and only increased the abortion giant’s assets.”
Sedlak was referring to the 2006 — 2007 PPFA annual report released late last week. The report shows that PPFA had a total income of $1.02 billion. Of that total, $258.7 million came from donations; $366.9 million came from fees charged customers at its clinics; and a whopping $336.7 million came from the American taxpayer.
The report also showed that PPFA recorded a profit of $114.8 million and increased its total assets to $1.12 billion.
“Taxpayer money represents 33 percent of Planned Parenthood’s income,” continued Sedlak, “yet it is clear that it does not need all this money. In these days of financial hardship all across the country, why are American taxpayers being forced to fund a billion dollar corporation that clearly does not need the money?”
Sedlak called for the immediate cessation of all taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and asked all concerned citizens to go to www.StopPlannedParenthoodTaxFunding.com and sign the petition demanding the halt of Planned Parenthood’s pillaging of our taxpayer monies.
Here’s the petition to end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
Life News adds:
On its web site posting of the annual document, Planned Parenthood says it “highlights our advancements in providing and protecting trusted health care services and medically accurate sexuality education.”
Instead, the report finds Planned Parenthood doing more abortions than ever before.
The report shows an increase in the number of provided abortions from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006.
Planned Parenthood reveals it has doubled “excess of revenue over expenses” funds from $55.7 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006.
Of concern to pro-life groups, Planned Parenthood acknowledges the receipt of over $336 million in government grants and contracts from both state and federal governments. However, the abortion business provides no breakdown showing how much Planned Parenthood received from the federal government or specifics states.
The revelations from the annual report upset Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council.
“A majority of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion — however, still Planned Parenthood receives more than $300 million in taxpayer funding each year for ‘family planning’ projects that help bolster their abortion trade,” he told LifeNews.com.
He said Planned Parenthood was not a “wise investment” of public money because of its history.
“Would you invest in a company whose affiliates are complicit in sexual crimes against children?” he asked, pointing to numerous instances of its centers doing abortions on victims of statutory rape and sexual abuse.
“Would you take your hard-earned money and pile it into a company whose fundraisers “get excited” when someone wishes to target African-American babies for extinction?” he asked.
The comment refers to a recent investigative report from students at UCLA who found Planned Parenthood officials excited about receiving donations from a racist donor.
Perkins said the ultimate slap in the face to the majority of Americans who are pro-life is the fact that Planned Parenthood still receives government funds despite the fact its political action committee will spend $10 million in this year’s election on pro-abortion candidates.
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Unbelievable.
This isn’t about the money. This is about supporting a woman’s right to choose.
Riiiiight.
From wiki:
I understand how abortion is the hot button issue, but most of the things Planned Parenthood provides are an invaluable service to the community. If PP didn’t get taxpayer support, these services would vanish in many communities. For those who don’t have health insurance (1 in 7), these programs are vital.
I mean, God forbid people get cheap mammograms.
Sort of like the serial killer who offed a sexual predator.
An extreme example for sure, but let’s be honest, their big thing is abortion, not mammograms.
Hmmmm….
Oil companies are in front of Congress today, after an average 8% profit margin… and are charged with profiteering…
These guys made 11%?
Zero out planned parenthood. Mammograms are available through your local health department.
Rusty, none of the services that you listed should be the obligation of the federal government. If there is enough of a demand for those services, then the private sector will fill them. That is the capitalist way.IMHO
INCREDULOUS! I am beside myself with disgust that my taxes – money my family and I could ill afford to spare – go to such an offensive organization, and in copious amounts no less!
Ditto, 30 and Craig (#’s 1 & 2)!
Maybe I could double my family’s excess over revenue if the government would stop taxing me for PP’s overage!
Madchef, the capitalist way is to price out the people who can’t afford those services. Which is why the poor have severely shorter life expectancies. The capitalist way doesn’t work.
Socialism works man!!! Get on board. All aboard. You’re missing the gravy train. Capitalism doesn’t work – ya hear? cRusty works for free, he can’t pay his rent, or buy nice clothes and shoes to wear to his job that doesn’t pay him. And I know you all are wondering, where did cRusty get the money to pay for the beers that caused cRusty to have to take a #2 in the park and post it on his website. What… you didn’t know they are now giving out beer at the local soup kitchen.
30, don’t be obtuse. Pure capitalism does not work. This is not an endorsement of socialism, communism, or any other ism. But without safety nets and subsidization, the country would fail.
One way in which it is failing is in health issues. If people are priced out of health services, what good does that accomplish?
Geez, have to deal with Rusty here too.
Planned Parenthood has had little to do with planning parenthood and more to do with – let’s get the blob of tissue out of you before it ruins your life. But hay, if we can give out a few other services, we can make the devil look like an angel of light.
Funny, my girls never needed the services of PP. I guess we informed them of the proper choices and it cost the tax payers – NOTHING. What a freakin concept.
Petition signed – gladly.
“The capitalist way doesn’t work”
Well Rusty,you finally have shown your true colors.
Damn capitalist pigs stealing te fruits of our labor. Long live the proletariat!
LOL
…and PP is our savior! Tort reform could have helped the insurance industry. Now the liberal fix-it is let the gooberment take it over.
Does your brain hurt Rusty? It’s killing me!
How old are you? Name calling usually stops somewhere around fourth grade.
Clearly you haven’t been watching the democartic primary, or listening to democrats in Congress for the last 8 years.
If I say Mookie, am I name calling? It sure looke like it!
Now all we need is lgm to come to Mookie’s rescue and we will have the full circle (jerk). Rusty defends lgm, Mookie defends Rusty, lgm defends Mookie!
head.is.swimming
Oh yeah, I forgot how long all those people live in Soviet Russia and Communist China lived.
I wonder how much tax $$$ pro-life groups get compared to Planned Parenthood, even if it’s a %. Anyone know?
And this quote:
Ummm….as opposed to what? Medically inaccurate abstinence programs that prevent STDs and unplanned pregnancies altogether?
Perhaps, next time you should be more specific.
This is not true. You libs want to kill off anything that reproduces.
Uh-huh.
Question for you – where will it end? Who will determine when enough is enough? Revamp the whole healthcare system because a minority do not have health insurance. Makes sense to me.
Soap, I didn’t answer Mookie as I thought it equally funny that Mookie would say anything with a name like Mookie. I like say Mookie. What’s a Mookie?
And will hopefully keep taking on water.
soap, 30 – you need to change your troll bait – what you’re suing isn’t working so well
The argument against capitalism reminds me of my daughter’s whine “It’s NOT fair!”
So true – it isn’t fair. But can we please stop the childish whining about fairness? The world cannot and is not fair. Not everyone will have what everyone else has. That’s just how it is and has always been.
Capitalism works – it might not provide the exact same services and items for every single person in the country, but it isn’t supposed to.
Eugenics is alive and well and operating in your friendly neighborhood abortion emporium.
Why does PP need my hard earned tax money? Sorry, it doesn’t wash you can get all those services at the health dept. We don’t need the eugenics folks taking our tax dollars.
A billion dollars in income gained from eliminating “inconvenient” human life. Wow. The 1930s German proponents of Ballastexistenzen – “Lives not worth living” – would be proud.
Or, let’s just say that it’s not international arms dealers or mercenaries who come first to mind when I hear the term, “Merchants of Death.”
I was participating as an exhibitor in the Oregon Asian Celebration last February, and had the misfortune to have my booth next to Planned Parenthood’s.
They were petitioning for a new Federal statute codifying the decision in Roe v. Wade.
What amazed me the most – aside from somehow being able to spend the whole weekend next to them without getting into verbal fisticuffs – was that these are the same folks who purposefully, routinely and brazenly break the law to encourage pregnant girls to lie about their age; yet here they were agitating for a new law.
But it’d be “their” law, I suppose, which would make it binding as opposed to the purely advisory status they give to laws they don’t fancy.
#25 On April 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm, jenmom said:
“The argument against capitalism reminds me of my daughter’s whine “It’s NOT fair!”
So true – it isn’t fair. But can we please stop the childish whining about fairness? The world cannot and is not fair. Not everyone will have what everyone else has. That’s just how it is and has always been.
Capitalism works – it might not provide the exact same services and items for every single person in the country, but it isn’t supposed to.”
Yep.
Good psot.
Correct.
Socialists/statists are stuck on ignorance/adolescence.
They live to whine, and to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
I believe the following two sayings are Churchill’s, and they are as true today as they were when he made them (paraphrased):
Anyone who is not a Communist/socialist at age 20 has no heart;
anyone who is not a capitalist at age 40 has no mind.
and
The worst thing about capitalism is the unequal sharing of riches/abundance;
the best thing about Communism/socialism is the equal sharing of want and misery.
How right he was, and still is.
But, one cannot argue this with secularist/socialist Trolls.
Their ideology is, indeed, a faith, a religion to them.
They do not know, they do not accept, that they are wrong, despite the long list of facts and history; rather, they feel, they believe, that they are correct.
That’s why arguing with them is useless…as useless as trying to defend oneself at one’s witch trial.
And, whether the Trolls like it or not, this all boils down to a radical difference in our respective worldviews.
The Trolls know that this is what it boils down to; but, they hate this fact, and they will never admit it.
Good post.
Apologies.
Contrary to that belief, there *are* many corporations who work to give back in charitable ways, and I believe the market would fill a need for things like mammograms and health care for those who need it.
I’m really annoyed by people who b***h and moan about capitalism when that’s what has given all of us – including people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – the vast amounts of wealth we have.
Tell me, Rusty, would you give up part of your paycheck so you were making the same as the lowest-payed employee in your company? I mean, anything less would be capitalist and – therefore – greedy, right?
If PP is about all those health services, they should just dump abortion all together. But that would go against the
Planned ParenthoodPlanned Barrenhood code of “ethics”.Oops! Post #8 CORRECTION: “…excess over revenue…” change to “…excess OF revenue… .”
Reminder: the majority of Americans — including myself — believe abortion should be legal.
#33 On April 1st, 2008 at 2:31 pm, lgm said:
“Reminder: the majority of Americans — including myself — believe abortion should be legal.”
That does not make it right.
You KNOW that;
but, you do not FEEL that;
therefore, you will NEVER admit that it is wrong, and will struggle mightily to direct attention to the fact that it is currently legal.
A couple of days ago, I visited lashawn barber’s website and she posted a video of George Tiller, the baby killer at a NEA conference which was secretly taped by a pro-life organization called Students for Life of America. In this video he stated some of the most grotesque things. Here’s the link, scroll down.
But lgm and the “majority” of Americans approve. So, we should just shut up, pony up the dough and get the heck out of the way while the murder of millions of innocents continue.
Oh, Criminy. I am not anti-capitalism! I am against capitalism in its purest, cruelest form.
And a society where 1 in 7 women can’t afford a pap smear or a mammogram is unacceptable. Not only is it unacceptable, but it’s also something that is bad for the country. Which is why these things are often subsidized. The government doesn’t want people dropping dead of cancer any more than the patients do.
30and other pro-lifers/anti-choicers, do you believe life begins at conception? I keep reading about these murders. Who is being murdered?
If life begins at conception, where are the protests at the CVS for handing out birth control pills and Plan B? Or the OBGYN offices that implant IUDs?
Or does life being at viability? I think this makes more sense. After all, it’s hard to describe something that doesn’t have the ability to breathe as really alive. That’s where the line should be drawn. And that leaves plenty of room for first and second trimester abortions.
Rusty, I’d like to address the finer point of your comment about people being priced out of the market.
Actually, capitolism works better than you think. If there is a large enough demand, even among poor people, a capitolist will come along and find a way to make it work and profit at the same time. Even poor people in the US seem to have funds. If PP doesn’t make all the services available that they do, someone will, and in a profitable way.
In fact, isn’t that what PP is doing? This thread is about the fact that we (taxpayers) gave PP more than they actually needed. Therefore, this discussion is actually around the fact that PP does seem to be profitable enough that maybe they don’t need the tax dollars.
Just a thought…
And no, I DO NOT believe abortion deserves the constitutional protection that it receives. Just in case anyone is wondering…
Not sure how we can say that any society is unacceptable just because some women can’t get pap smears and mammograms.
But I don’t really believe that health care is a “right” we are all privy to under our Constitution. I don’t think it is the government’s responsibility to ensure health care for all and pay for it from our ever growing deficit.
As for when life begins – my vote is conception. After having three babies and seeing that tiny beating heart on an ultrasound in my 1st trimester – that is life to me!
Rusty,
What is the point of a second trimester abortion? I want to have a baby, no I don’t want to have a baby. I mean if you don’t want the child and abortion seems like a viable option why are you vassilating and waiting until you are in your second trimester?
Let’s not pretend that third trimester abortions don’t occur. Additionally, let’s not pretend as if we don’t know why these women are getting abortions or does that not matter either? It’s all about choice. Fathers raping their daughters and taking them in for abortions. This is what you are arguing in favor for. Therefore, we will not see eye-to-eye.
Don’t you mean 1 in 7 women can’t afford insurance which would allow them to go see a physician and get those services? Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t there clinics for these types of procedures? Are the 1 in 7 women unemployed? Are they unmarried? Do they have families? Are they young? Are they old?
I think these are all valid questions that need to be asked, answered, and analyzed before we make decisions to use other people’s money to blanket cover those who actually need help but usually include those who choose to not get insurance.
Personal responsibility is almost always overlooked when people start throwing out statistics about the poor getting poorer, millions of children without insurance, etc….
Shall I go first?
Contraceptives prevent conception:
contra = against;
ceptives = conception.
One who believes that life begins at conception; who accepts the fact that the fertilized egg is an individual, with a full complement of chromosomes, and the potential to develop into a fully developed human (unlike a skin cell or bone cell, which will remain a skin cell or bone cell) knows very well that contraception, in the from of BCPs or condoms, does not kill an individual.
That’s possibly a reason no one is protesting outside CVS.
Goodbye, strawman.
“Or does life being at viability? I think this makes more sense.”
That is your very convenient opinion, and nothing more.
“After all, it’s hard to describe something that doesn’t have the ability to breathe as really alive. That’s where the line should be drawn.”
So, what would you do with fully grown people who, because of their medical condition either temporarily or permanently cannot breath on their own, and need to be put on a mechanical ventilator?
Would you consider them alive?
Would you consider Stephen Hawking alive?
He cannot breathe on his own.
What would you do with him?
“And that leaves plenty of room for first and second trimester abortions.”
What can one say about that?
Besides that that last sentence is incredibly scary, outrageous, and despicable.
OK, someone else’s turn….
#42 Ditkaca:
Well said.
Don’t you know that cRusty and his ilk don’t accept personal responsibility as an alibi? Now – go directly to the washroom, and wash your fingers off with soap! Shame on you!
I do believe life begins at conception, Rusty. At conception, an unborn child is a genetically unique, genetically human individual. Even if still in the earliest stages of developments, no individual like that child will ever be created or exist again.
However, I am willing to acknowledge that getting rid of birth control and IUDs is going too far. I do still believe there are health concerns with the pill (as well as Plan B) and that they should not be given to girls whose bodies are still developing.
And I’m willing to admit we don’t always know for certain if using the Pill causes an abortion in any given month or if it doesn’t. We cannot detect pregnancy at the exact moment of conception, yet.
However, we *do* know that a woman is pregnant by the time she goes for an abortion.
And it doesn’t end with viability, Rusty. Children – healthy, VIABLE – children are aborted up to the moment of birth. That is inexcusable in *any* society and apart from any individual religious conviction. Barack Obama voted (and spoke) against legislation that would prevent children who survived abortions from being shelved to die. Literally.
And children as little as 21 or 22 weeks gestation have lived with medical intervention (the kind Obama oppossed).
Fine – so am I. But that *rarely* exists. Many corporations have charitable foundations that donate millions to worthy causes. Likewise, there was a recent report that conservatives – who, by and large – are capitalist, are some of the most generous givers out there.
I cannot justify abortion but beyond that I cannot believe in PP’s racist/eugenics roots, the recent reporting on the eager acceptance of a racist donation, or their flounting of parental rights/notification and laws regarding statutory rape.
My apologies for feeding the trolls. I’m usually just a reader here but I couldn’t just sit here an not respond.
Plus I was trying to keep the thread on topic. Which is: Why is a for profit company getting taxpayer money?
If they are not profitable enough to stay in business they need to close their doors or raise prices or cut costs. If only our govenment could run that way
?.I have never needed PP.I wasn’t aware they offered services other that abortion.Does anyone know anybody who has had these services.Are they free or is there a fee or a required donation?Is this available to all women or is it only for the needy?Just asking.
Rusty – I still don’t see why you are defending the fact that PP received over $100 million in taxpayer money that they apparently didn’t even need. If you are so worried about the poor in this country, aren’t there better places our money could be going than PP’s pockets?
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(By the way – there was a time between college and marriage where I stupidly didn’t have insurance and I managed to pay for my own gyn appointments. Just because I failed to insure myself didn’t mean that anyone else was responsible for taking care of my health expenses.)
“medically accurate sexuality education”
What they mean by that is what we as parents teach our children about sex and secuality, it goes against the grain of using abortion as birth control and such. They are only telling us that they know how to teach our kids better than we do. See?
They can just stay out of my daughter’s uterus thank you very much.
On April 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm, Rusty said: #38
Or does life being at viability? I think this makes more sense. After all, it’s hard to describe something that doesn’t have the ability to breathe as really alive.
WOW, the definition of life is now – you must breathe air? You, as a “christian” (ahem) cannot be serious. So, the cells in your body that get the oxygen they need through osmosis are not really living? These cell have oxygen delivered to them by blood cells (which cannot be alive). Is your brain dead? Rhetorical, I know. If a sperm cell is a living thing and an egg is a living thing, does it not stand that what they produce is – LIVING?
Biology 101, take it.
Fetch
Then you shall bear the guilt accordingly on judgement day.
P.S. The gooberment does not care about anybody surviving cancer. As a survivor, I got nill from Uncle Sam. I sold 2 Corvettes to pay the bills. I was turned down for benefits (white boy) when I clearly was supposed to receive benefits – Americans With Disabilities Act. Nope, the gooberment cares about you as a taxable person and I have a tax bill for 2004 to prove it.
The more you post, the more ignorant you show yourself to be. I pray you never have to find out how much you do not qualify for by getting cancer.
Our family chooses life. I’m all for stopping funding to “Murder Incorporated.” Signed the petition for what good it will do, but better than sitting on the side lines saying or doing nothing while the largest genocide in history continues in this country.
If you include those who restrict it to rape/incest and/or to save the mother’s life then the majority DON’T believe abortion should be legal.
Viability (with regard to abortion) is defined as the average age at which a fetus is able to survive outside the womb.
In 1973 viability was 26 weeks.
In 2008 viability is 22 weeks.
In 35 years the definition of who is or is not human has expanded based solely on an arbitrary standard.
In 1973 a egg fertilized outside the womb could survive for a few hours.
In 2008 implantation can be delayed by up to a week.
Medical knowledge and technlogy keeps advancing; eventually viability will be at conception.
What standard will you then use to draw the line of human/non-human?
Um, isn’t Planned Parenthood a non profit organization?
So, where the profit going?
englishqueen01 @ 31 said:
There, fixed it for you.
I think they should come clean and admit what they really want to be called: Planned Barrenhood.
Rusty is right.. I mean, the Porshe is priced way out of my means.. damn capitalist ways of the filthy rich..
maybe if hospitable and health insurance companies had less government regulations and actually had to compete with each other, the prices could go down..
#60On April 1st, 2008 at 11:59 pm, DaveC said:
“maybe if hospitable and health insurance companies had less government regulations and actually had to compete with each other, the prices could go down..”
Up to a point.
Yes, the regulations, and the litigation climate (thus the need for so much liability insurance) drive up the costs; and, notwithstanding the immediate, self-righteous protestations of trial lawyers and regulatory bureaucrats, do little to nothing to improve the quality of medical care.
However, there is limit to competition in medical care.
Ordinary businesses that compete go after areas of the market in which they can make money.
I don’t think you would want that in medical care.
If you needed medical care, but your condition were a huge money-loser, and you were to come to me (I’m a doc) for care, how would you feel if I were to say to you, “Get lost, you’re a money loser.”?
Unlike litigation lawyers, who can, if they wish, refuse to take a case if they think that it won’t be profitable for them, docs and hospitals shouldn’t do that…and, as far as I know, they can’t do that, without facing deserved legal, possibly criminal legal, action.
Who/what determined that PP was “entitled” to this money? Why is taxpayer money necessary to fund this enterprise? It’s just another way that the federal government is “funding” (indirectly) healthcare choices for the “poor” and “disenfranchised.” PP is a business… they don’t need the taxpayer money any more than do the evil oil companies.
Rusty, lgm, etc. are prime examples of the weak-minded proletariet mindset of the electorate. Let the government take over health insurance so well since they’ve done great things with public schools, social security, and other wonderful entitlement programs.
Newsflash: look up a little thing known as Tricare and find up how much government makes its military members jump through hoops to get medication and basic medical services. It’s also a dream when the bill comes too.
Try this link instead:
Progressives are pro-negro-infant-holocaust.
I’ll bet the majority of antebellum plantation owners believed that slavery should be legal; and the majority of nazis surely believed that killing jews should be legal.
Abortion has the sanction of law at the moment, but that in no way makes it a moral practice.