What Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Want You to Know
By Josh Brahm: Director of Education and Public Relations, GRTL
Many people automatically associate Planned Parenthood with abortion. It’s appropriate; it’s by
far their biggest business. However, is abortion giving Planned Parenthood a bad name? Perhaps
they offer many good services, and abortion is just the one unpopular service they offer. Many
services, you ask? What else does Planned Parenthood do besides abortions? Read on.
Abortion
It’s impossible to write about Planned Parenthood without at least
mentioning abortion. Consider a few brief facts: Planned Parenthood
is the nation’s leading abortion performer and promoter. In 2001,
Planned Parenthood’s clinics performed 16% of the nation’s
abortions, killing 213,026 babies.1 If September 11 happened 71
times, you get that many deaths… almost. If you look at the chart,
you can see that Planned Parenthood’s plans typically don’t involve
parenthood. Allow me to quote them: “Babies are loud, smelly and
expensive. Unless you want one.”
Planned Parenthood 's
Priorities ?
Abortions:
93.2%
Prenatal
Care: 6.8%
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Free Abortions to 9/11 and Katrina Victims
After Hurricane Katrina shattered the lives of millions of people in the South, abortion advocates
offered them morning after pills and free abortions instead of food, shelter or money to rebuild.
It wasn't long before Atlanta was doing the same. Atlanta Women’s Medical Center began
offering free abortion and gynecological care to Katrina evacuees on a case-by-case basis. "This
just adds to the destruction these women already have in their lives," said Caryl Swift, the
president of GRTL. "Many have already lost family members. They have all lost property. Taking
the lives of unborn children who have survived the hurricane is the wrong response."
"Choice on Earth" Christmas Cards
Since 2002, Planned Parenthood has marketed it's Christmas cards and t-shirts, with the phrase
"Choice on Earth." The controversial theme is a distortion of a passage in the Gospel of Luke,
where an angel announces to shepherds the birth of their Savior in Bethlehem. "Glory to God in
the highest heaven, and peace on earth to all whom God favors." (Luke 2:14; NLT) "What 'choice
on Earth' really means is 'abortion on Earth,' said Jim Sedlak, the executive director of STOPP.
"In the season that celebrates the birth of Jesus, it is absolutely outrageous to have cards
celebrating the death of babies." If Planned Parenthood had existed 2,000 years ago, it would
have targeted Mary, an unwed, pregnant teenager, for a profitable abortion.
Places a Wedge Between Parents and Children
Planned Parenthood purposefully places a wedge between parents and children.
One of the ways they do this is by providing birth control to minors without
parental knowledge. They also portray parents as weak and incompetent in their
literature. For example, in the introduction to PPFA’s website for teenagers,
parents are essentially told to back off and let the Planned Parenthood “experts”
take over the sex education of their children. “We understand that many teens
are uncomfortable talking to their parents about sex… Please remember that
this web site is for teens. This is their place. Take a look around if you like, but
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we prefer that you do not register on the site.” I could go on for pages.
Promotes Promiscuity in Teens
Planned Parenthood encourages all forms of sexual activity to teens. Planned Parenthood’s
pamphlets and teen website graphically promotes “activities” that are too shameful to write
about. Planned Parenthood teaches that there are no wrongs regarding sexual activity as long as
the participants want to do what they’re doing. A typical PPFA brochure states, “The Real
Question Is: What’s Right For You? You Decide!” Planned Parenthood strongly opposes
“abstinence-only” sex education programs that focus on abstinence before marriage. They do this
because they know that teens are 20% of their clientele. The more sex teens have, the more
abortions they will need in the future. They have even paid teens to promote Planned
Parenthood among their friends, classmates and peers! For example, Planned Parenthood worked
out an arrangement with the school system in Morrow County, Ohio in which teenagers were
paid $100 to be trained as “outreach workers.” (This program was paid for with taxpayer funds.)
Protects Statutory Rapists
Life Dynamics exposed a nationwide cover-up of the sexual abuse of
minors by Planned Parenthood. The law in every state of our country
states that clinic workers must file a report when they suspect sexual
abuse, including statutory rape. The fact is, abortion clinics almost
never file any reports, allowing teenagers to continue in their abusive
relationships by giving them an abortion and burying their records. To
prove this, Life Dynamics hired a 23-year old woman with a youngsounding voice to pose as a 13-year-old girl who thought she was
pregnant by her 22-year-old boyfriend. She called nearly 1,000 “family
planning” centers across the country, including most Planned
Parenthood facilities. Most of these calls were taped, and in about
80% of the calls to Planned Parenthood centers, the clinic workers
agreed to conceal or knowingly ignore the suspected felony statutory rape, often even
acknowledging the criminal nature of the relationship. Here are just two examples of these taped
conversations:
An employee at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Okolona, Kentucky, when asked if the
clinic would report the 22-year old boyfriend, replied, “Well, I’ll be honest with you. By
law because you are thirteen years old, we should. Now, we’ve never reported anybody.
OK?”
One Planned Parenthood clinic worker suggested the caller could have the boyfriend keep “a
year’s worth” of Planned Parenthood-supplied birth control pills in his possession (thereby
ensuring that the sexual abuse could continue in secret.) For more information, visit
www.childpredator.com.
Population Control
Planned Parenthood is a huge proponent of population control in the world. In a 1984
advertisement, Planned Parenthood stated, “We…have spent the better part of the century
supporting and fighting for everyone’s freedom to make their own decisions about having
children.” Apparently, this “freedom” doesn’t apply to people in China. Planned Parenthood has
never criticized China’s brutal one-child per family policy that forces women to have abortions if
they’re pregnant with their second. In fact, they even write, “Few women dispute that women's
lives are better now than in the past…” because of China’s “family planning programs.” Ironically,
many Americans don’t even know that this is still going on. In fact, China’s population control
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program has resulted in tens of millions of abortions, and more than one million cases of
infanticide (mostly of baby girls.)3
Sadly this isn’t the only case of Planned Parenthood supporting population control worldwide.
Alan Guttmacher, Planned Parenthood’s former president predicted the “possibility that eventually
coercion (in population programs) may become necessary.” He told a reporter that such force
may be especially needed “in areas where the pressure is the greatest, possibly in India and
China.” Besides compulsory abortion, Planned Parenthood’s population control programs also
include forced sterilization for those who have had two children.4
Selling of Body Parts
Planned Parenthood has been caught selling body parts to companies that then sells
them for research. One such company, Opening Lines, offered body parts - “the
freshest tissue available” - to researchers at the following prices: Limbs (at least 2)
$150. fetal spinal cord - $325, fetal reproductive organs - $550, fetal brains - $999
(30% discount if significantly fragmented), etc.5 In fact, this is most likely why the
partial birth abortion procedure was developed: to keep most of a babies’ body parts
intact for sale after their death. For more information about this gruesome practice,
email the Director of Education at joshbrahm@grtl.org.
Use of Tax Dollar Money
Last but not least, Planned Parenthood uses your tax dollars to carry out their
agenda. Even though Planned Parenthood has hundreds of millions of dollars in
reserve and ends each year with an average $20 million in “excess revenue over
expenses,” lobbyists for this non-profit organization are in Congress and the state legislatures
every year fighting for more government funding. As it is, one third of their income comes from
government grants like Title X, paid for by the taxpayers. In fact, Planned Parenthood receives
three times more money from our tax dollars then the amount of income they make from
performing abortions!
Conclusion
Planned Parenthood is much more than a “family planning service”
offering “compassionate care at an affordable cost.” 1 They are destroying
our nation’s families. Testimony after testimony comes out of abortion
clinics, with the doctors talking about being hesitant at first about taking
such a horrific job as killing babies, but the paycheck was too much to
give up. (Many doctors take as much as $250 to $500 from each abortion,
in cash.)6
So What Can We Do?
Begin by opening up the communication lines with your teens about God’s
design for sexuality. Send them to www.lovematters.com, a very well
done website for teens. Let your public officials know that you do not want your tax dollars to go
to Planned Parenthood. Contact your school board members and ask them to keep Planned
Parenthood out of your local schools. If that is unsuccessful, you have a right to request equal
time to share the abstinence/pro-life viewpoint with students. Georgia Right to Life can help by
using high-impact, multi-media presentations we’ve developed for situations like that. Boycott
companies which give to Planned Parenthood, by visiting www.fightpp.org. For other ways to
fight Planned Parenthood, visit www.stoppinternational.org.
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Sources:
1. Alan Guttmacher Institute
2. The Washington Post, January 7 and 8, 1985.
3. www.plannedparenthood.org
4. Glasow, Richard D., Ph. D., “Ideology Comels Fervid PPFA Abortion Advocacy,” National Right to
Life News, March 28, 1985
5. Vincent, Lynn. “The Harvest of Abortion.” World Magazine, October 15, 1999
6. Dr. Levatino, Anthony. http://www.priestsforlife.org/testimony/levatinolong.htm
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