WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released its latest annual report for fiscal year 2011 to 2012, which revealed:
- During fiscal year 2011-2012, Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. Taxpayer funding consists of 45% of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue.
- In 2011, Planned Parenthood performed a record high 333,964 abortions.
- Over the past three reported years (2009-2011), Planned Parenthood has performed nearly one million abortions (995,687).
- Cancer screening & prevention services and contraceptive services provided by Planned Parenthood continue to drop. Contraceptive services have dropped by 12% since 2009, and cancer screening & prevention services have dropped by 29%.
- Planned Parenthood reported a total of three million clients in 2011, meaning that 11% of all Planned Parenthood clients received an abortion.
More facts available on the SBA List’s One-Page Fact Sheet on Planned Parenthood’s 2011-2012 Annual Report.
Planned parenthood has performed nearly one million abortions. That’s one million possibilities of the growing and developing of a human being. In Newtown, Conn., it was called murder. What do you call it?
maybe
January 13, 2013 at 6:06 pm
@memyselfandi, screwed in an airport bathroom? First of all where did that come from and secondly is there something you need to share??
Sorry nothing to share. I was reminding the poster of nationaly known events that prove conservatives are far from perfect and are no better than liberals in sexual matters/values.
Katie saidd
January 11, 2013 at 11:18 am People who drink, smoke, and get hurt, only hurt their own bodies. These abortion objectors do not feel they should have to provide a NEGATIVE health outcome to a human being!”
People who drink and drive cause insurance rates to go up and can KILL other innocent drivers. They are prone to violence hence they DO effect others/health. They miss work and cost employers money. Treatment costs money. Ins. pays that hence raising premium cost for others who drink or don’t drink…..
Smoking can cause cancer in others. Causes health issues in smokers children if you smoke in their presence. Causing Dr. bills and rates to go up. Abortion is between the woman and baby. Only 2 effected.
imo smokers /drinkers actions do effect other’s lives.
Health insurance may not be a right but proper affordable healthcare should be. We’re not a 3rd world country. Not everyone can afford tests needed so the healthcare plan aides those people. These will be “working citizens” helping pay for or working off the premium. Religious beliefs do not belong in healthcare laws. Or Scientologists would get away with not taking their children to Drs..
The only way to get a liberal to oppose obortion, is to use a handgun to perform it.
yeah…. sure….. cuz we know no Conservative Repuiblican ever had an abortion,cheated on his wife or screwed in an airport bathroom. Conservatives are so lily perfect. HUGE LOL!
@memyselfandi, screwed in an airport bathroom? First of all where did that come from and secondly is there something you need to share?
@sickastupd – As I said, “irate feminine rhetoric”. And “emotion”. And if I were Hobby Lobby, I would do away with all employee offered health insurance. As is my right and my choice. Let the employees purchase their own, if they wish. This would remove the legal/religious arguement from the table completely. I am not giving my opinion, or trying to change yours. Just offering an option that the govt may be forcing.
I already said they had the option. What you don’t understand is that they want to keep insuring employees, but only want coverage for the things THEY approve of.
Like I said, they have the option of no insurance coverage at all, which would be detrimental to their employees and ultimately their company, or they can offer insurance as part of their employee package.
They cannot pick and choose what the insurance company covers.
The government isn’t forcing them to offer coverage.
As usual, I state facts only, with no emotion attached. I realize you think it’s clever trying to denigrate my factual posts, but people with IQs higher than 14 know what you’re all about.
You’re not going to win an argument or a debate with anyone, citizen, as long as you continue to make things up and insult people. If you have a point, make it. You don’t have to spout this childish nonsense like you’ve been doing. It detracts from any validity your opinions may have.
Oh, and one more thing. There is a difference between fact and opinion.
Your blogs are a lot of fun to read. Thank you.
@sickastupd – This is not getting us anywhere. You won’t change my mind, and I won’t change yours. It’s obvious you don’t feel people should be responsible for their own actions, and the govt. should be there to bail them out whenever they ask for it. I feel that people should be responsible, and pay their own way in this world. Drug addicts, alchoholics, the morning after pill insurances have to pay for, these all come from choices people make. And yet insurance has to take care of all these “diseases”, because the govt has been made to feel it’s their responsibility to mandate hand outs to these losers who made these choices. I am sure what I have written will be met with insults and irate feminine rhetoric, but the truth is you’re all emotion. No logic, no objectivity, no real intelligence. Just emotion. That’s all.
Here’s some more “female irate rhetoric” for you.
What does health insurance, which is partially paid for by the employer and partially paid by the employee and is considered a benefit in lieu of higher wages have to do with “responsibility”?
Since when did we start deciding which medical condition we approve? How about testicular cancer? Should health insurance cover that? Or a brain tumor? Yes? What if you have a broken leg from playing football? If you only like baseball should you protest?
Your alleged mind, and whether or not anyone can change it, is not the point. This is a clear issue of whether or not Hobby Lobby should provide health insurance to their employees. They are trying to worm out of this benefit on a weak religious excuse. This is not acceptable. Do you agree?
Be careful – if you think it’s ok to pick and choose which medical procedures should be covered, this could come back and bite a lot of other medical conditions.
@stupd: Abortions and abortion pills are a different issue. They adversely affect another human being in the eyes of the objectors. People who drink, smoke, and get hurt, only hurt their own bodies. These abortion objectors do not feel they should have to provide a NEGATIVE health outcome to a human being!
Sigh. I was hoping this discussion would prompt at least ONE person to take two minutes to research the “day after” and “week after” pills.
They do not cause abortion. They prevent ovulation so pregnancy cannot occur. It’s birth control after the fact, but it does not deal with a fertilized egg. It prevents fertilization.
How many more ways can it be said? The government does not now, nor has it ever, paid for or advocated abortion. Abortion is a legal procedure, but other than the secular legality, the government has no opinion.
Why is this so hard to understand? Hobby Lobby is extremely disingenuous in its “reason”, and it knows exactly what it’s doing. It’s using phony “beliefs” to worm out of paying decent wages and benefits. Period.
The fact that so many people have fallen for their big lie tells us that it works. Big business is still able to manipulate the uneducated public.
Sad, very sad.
From the moment of conception there is life, you stick a rod in there or take a pill and you take away that life. Hitler would be proud of you.
A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE SHOULD NEVER BE TRIFLED WITH!!! GOD HATES YOU
Oh boy. Maybe, there is no conception. None. Zero. Nada. Capice?
If she decides to spread her legs for fun then kill the baby that is her right, and if she wants to take a pill to kill it that is also her right but don’t tell me that we are required by law to give her insurance to pay for it if I believe killing the fetus is murder. Another thing, you must be in pretty tight with God to know if he hates me or not because my bible says he loves me no matter what.
Hey stupid, if there is no conception how did you get here?
Maybe, you are just intentionally ignorant. And that’s a far greater sin than most.
@stupid: I don’t disagree with you about the science of there being no conception with the day after pill. I am very aware that it can be a couple days before the sperm and egg meet. However, these people do not see it that way because there could also be immediate conception. And have the Greens stated that they do not want to provide ANY health insurance for their employees based on this issue? I thought they just didn’t want to provide abortion coverage.
Katie, if pregnancy had already occurred, the pill would have no effect. It merely stops the egg in the ovary. If all things worked just right, and the egg was already in the fallopian tubes during intercourse and became fertilized, the pill would be useless.
They know that. They are trying to make this an “abortion” and “religion” issue to get out of offering health insurance to their employees and to make a name for themselves among the “anti-obama” crowd.
It’s shameless and disingenuous, and actually quite un-Christian.
Sorry, but I can’t help but chuckle at the ongoing discussion between “sickastupd” and “maybe”. It’s a lost cause, “sick”. “Maybe” has one of those minds that’s permanently closed. He/she has superglue on the brain. No amount of applying solvent (in the form of “facts”) will dissolve that glue. You’ll just waste a lot of energy.
I have to agree with the first poster. We would have MILLIONS more on welfare if abortions weren’t legal. And that IS a fact.
I tell where I get my facts and you guys say that they don’t believe it and say I have no facts but the only fact you guys give me is your word, like that means anything to me.
So using your logic….if I walk around the block when it’s cold out and catch pneumonia I shouldn’t expect my ins. to pay for my med bill? If I eat meat and get high chol./heart disease I shouldn’t expect my ins. to pay for my hrt. meds. If I cut down a tree and cut off my arm or it falls on me I shouldn’t expect my ins. co to pay for my med needs? Well why the heck have ins.? Afterall it was my choice to do the acts that caused my demise.
That wasn’t my logic at all but it makes sense to me.
You need to realize “addiction” is a mental illness. Which has a wide spectrum. I resent you calling addicts and alcoholics “losers”. Some very nice people fall into the emotional trap of addiction. And led productive lives thanks to treartment. Addiction stems from low self esteem. I’d explain it further but your brain and nose are too far up in the air for it to reach your tiny mind. Nancy R’s just say no is bullshit and non productive. It’s just hype to satisfy the holier than thous.
Addiction is someone choosing to do something until they feel they are not able to stop. Question, why did they choose to do it in the first place? Bottom line, we are not paying for an illness. We are paying for someones choice.
So we don’t have another “misunderstanding”, let’s try and simplify this for you citizen and katie. Health insurance is not a morals issue. It is not a religious belief. It is healthcare.
If you, as a business owner, want to offer insurance as part of your employee’s wage, you are now required to cover birth control, because after only 237 short years, women’s health care is beginning to matter too.
No longer can insurance companies fail to pay for things that are unique to women, while covering all things male related. You are free to check with any insurance agent for verification. Of course health insurance for women still costs more, but that’s a bridge we’ll cross at a later date.
Having said that, your arguments on the basis of “morals”, “prevention”, “religion” etc, etc are completely irrelevant.
You both seem reasonably intelligent. To continue to make incendiary and blatantly untrue statements like “pay for others’ abortions”, and “handouts” in this discussion makes you seem uneducated and hysterical.
I respond to lies and poorly researched comments because the public deserves to know the truth, and your missives so far have been opinion – not truth.
@sickastupd – The truth is fine as long as it is “your” truth. That is why I asked for a yes or no answer. To remove emotion and start a reason based dialogue. I see I have my answer.
Citizen, again, this is not a discussion about whether or not pregnancy is preventable. This is a discussion about whether or not Hobby Lobby has any support for refusing to provide health insurance to their workers based on their personal emotions.
They have that legal right. The question was asked whether anyone supports their decision to worm out of this standard wage related benefit based on their alleged “emotions”. I do not, and I said so clearly.
Since there is no “pregnancy” issue anywhere near this discussion, what is it you want me to “discuss” with you?
Good post. But it will never sink in to them. They’re too into themselves and their “religious rights rule America” theory.
@sickastupd – Let’s start a real dialogue here. A simple yes or no question. No rhetoric, just one word. Are most pregnencies preventable? That is, by using the pill, condom, or abstinence, and other than rape, incest, or the preventive measures failing,(which is seldom), are most prenencies preventable? Yes or no.
@sickastupd – You are great at calling people names. What you are not good at is calm, logical, rational thinking. You insult people but you can’t give reasons for what you say or how you feel. And you have no respect for others or their opinions. And I fear that if you had a one on one discussion with someone, you would be lost. All you can do is feel. You don’t have the capacity to think or reason. You never defend a position. You make blanket statements that have no basis. In many ways you are fun to debate with. You are like a novice chess player, fun to try different things with because you know in the end you can always beat.
You realize we all recognize deflection when we see it, right? You can’t defend your positions so you attack. It’s an old trick, citizen. Your own posts are presumptive opinions laced with contemptuous innuendo, so of course you’re trying to throw the attention elsewhere. Weak, very weak.
The most humorous part of this newest attempt is the standard right wing insults you attempt to use on me. At least all my words are my own.
I guess I’ll have to say it again. Learn something.
You are really a trip. I am beginning to enjoy this more and more. If you could refute my posts with something other then emotion, you might gain some credibility. I would be willing to bet your favorite movie is “G.I. Jane”. And if by calling me right wing, if that means having worked all my life, taking responsibility for my own actions, and never once having to ask the govt for help, handouts, or charity, then please, call me right wing. I can think of no lower group of people then those who live off welfare. I understand that help is needed at times, but to live off of it is to be less than a human being.
The only thing you want us to learn is that you think you can inflict your beliefs on everyone else and no one should object. Not everyone believes in abortion and not everyone should have to pay for other peoples’ abortions. It is a religious and/or moral belief and very much like the conscientious objector issue to the draft or the Christian Scientist issue with any medical treatment. It’s bad enough that people have to pay taxes that fund government-backed programs that pay for things they object to, but they should NOT have to pay for them out of their private income. I don’t think private Christian Scientist employers should have to pay for health insurance at all. And I don’t think people who object to blood transfusions should have to pay for them, either. It’s called freedom of choice and belief. But there has to be a prior record of their religious objection, such as belonging to a church that has that belief, and they must provide coverage for all other health services to which they have no objections. I also think they should allow the employees an opportunity to pay for the extra coverage themselves, if they can handle that morally. Our wonderful government, that wants to force all this down our throats, just may have to back off and quit trying to control all of us, or offer supplemental policies for those who need extra coverage. Our government and people like you are stripping our freedoms away one at a time.
Now, with that said, I don’t like religion at all. But I do like morals and ethics. If someone has strong beliefs, even though I may think they are goofy as hell, I think they need to be respected. But I don’t respect someone who tries to denigrate someone else’s moral beliefs.
@Katie – 1) Inflict my beliefs – What are you doing by all those words about your beliefs?
2)People should object to my posts. It’s called free speech.
3)About abortion. Rape, incest, save mothers life should be paid for by govt. Others pay own expenses.
4)Denigrate others beliefs -I may not adhere to, and I may challange others, but I have never ridiculed or denigrated anyone’s beliefs.
And these are my feelings. If people don’t like or approve, that’s fine.
That said – you articulate your point(s) well. You are courteous and insightful and I enjoy your posts.
You are “inflicting” your beliefs by expecting private employers to pay for others’ abortions. Perhaps I should have used the word imposing. I realize that in this country, the majority gets its way, but in this case, it deals with religious beliefs, and I think that trumps majority rule as long as it isn’t a crime like killing your daughter for having a boyfriend or something like that. Health insurance is not a right in this country.
This is the first time I have ever heard you say you think government should only pay for abortions in the case of rape, incest, or saving the mother’s life. I thought your stance was that all health insurance and programs should pay for abortion pills and all abortions. That is what I was basing my arguments on.
And by denigrating, I meant you were maligning people who refused to pay for health coverage that went against their moral fiber. All you would say was to learn something as if there were only one correct point of view – yours.
I always try to be courteous, other than to criminals. 🙂
@Katie – Very few of my beliefs are “set in stone.” Other than pedophiles should be shot and rapists should be castrated with a blow torch and then skinned alive, I am usually a fairly easy going person. And I don’t mean to denigrate. I respect others beliefs and would like them to respect mine.
@ Citizen. Oh, Oh. We have a big misunderstanding here! I was replying to Sickostupid, not you in my first “inflict” rant! I was never replying to you and I forgot to put my @stupid sign in. And then I never noticed who was replying to me – just assumed it was stupid. I’m so very sorry! Now you can see why nothing I said to you in my last reply made any sense and why I was confused by your change in stance on the issues. LOL I’ve been trying to reply to too many posts at once and doing research at the same time. Once again, so sorry for the misunderstanding, Citizen. I’ll have to pay more attention.
@Katie – Thank you.
I don’t care if they only use 1% tax payers money. Aborition is WRONG and everyone knows it. Those of you who believe you should be able to KILL the BABY in the womb, you are so very lucky that your mother desided not to kill you. Arn’t you so damn lucky? Did you ever wonder what made you so wonderful to be lucky enough not to have been murdered? YES a woman has the right to choose…to have sex or not to have sex.
And you know what’s REALLY wrong? Public stupidity. Please don’t advertise your dumbness.
You do it everytime you post here.
Says the guy who just posted “proove it” in another thread.
The arguement over whether it’s right or wrong was over yeeeeeeears ago. Roe vs. Wade says it’s LEGAL. Don’t have one if you don’t believe in them. But don’t decide for other women. That’s NOT your right to decide for her. Hell don’t even pay for it. Who cares. You will NOT stop abortions. Would you rather see women dying in back alleys from butchered abortions as were done in the past. Give it up. Abortions WILL continue. It’s human nature.
What’s the point of this article?
I believe the point of the article is to show how much govt (tax) money planned parenthood receives. A good percentage of which could be saved by using common sense and preventative aids that are now on the market.
Which is the very thing Planned Parenthood provides. Women’s healthcare services which includes mammograms, pap smears, birth control, std testing and much more. Abortions are not paid for by tax dollars, as everyone knows.
Abortions are not paid for directly by tax dollars. But they are paid for indirectly by the tax money that is used to pay non-abortion expenses, thereby freeing up contribution money that would otherwise be used for the women’s care expenses you mentioned above. For simplicity: 1 million needed per yer. 500k from govt. 800k from contributions. The 500k from govt. plus 500k from the 800k contributions leaves 300k contribution money freed up for abortions. So, no, tax money is not used directly for abortions. But like so many things, a person has to look at the whole picture, not just a portion of it.
Well, of course you’re wrong. If you ever have the opportunity to take a remedial math class, you will find that there is never any money that is “freed up”.
I’ll repeat the facts. Planned Parenthood is a life saving program for low income women who have no other health care. The services offered are many and varied and absorb 97% of all money and account for 97% of all the work done. I realize there are some hyper hypocrites who, through their intentional ignorance, don’t understand that, but it’s true.
We need this service, which is one of the ONLY healthcare services that continues to operate on less and less money every year.
I’ve told you before, citizen, and I’ll tell you again. Learn something. Your backwards emotional outbursts are tiring.
What else can you expect of this mis leading report that only tells you what they want you to know. What I read in the real report is that only 3% of the money spent is in abortions. The women have to pay for their own abortions. Leaving religion aside, I still believe that it is a WOMANS decision not the publics on what she does with her body. The rest of the people need to mind their own business and take care of themselves. I am somewhat disappointed in NIT that they kepp running this kind of stuff. I was hoping NIT would be impartial and not like the GLOB.
@LVS-Now having said what I did, I would like to qualify that and say I am not necessarily in favor of the Planned Parenthood Program. It does seem like a duplication of services in most cases what with all the other programs available for birth control. I just don’t agree with telling people what they have to do with their body’s. It does seem we could find a better use for the money spent.
Why doesn’t the woman have her partner use a condom? Pregnancy prevention as well as disease protection.
I said in the Hobby Lobby article that I knew women who used abortion as their primary means of birth control. It is distasteful that money spent on contraception is dropping and money spent on abortion has increased. People are getting more careless and letting the rest of us pay for their mistakes. And I wonder how many of those pregnancies resulted in STD’s that we had to treat. What the hell is wrong with people? And why are parents so hell-bent on not teaching birth control in schools? If it’s against their religion, fine, but be prepared for the consequences. Most Catholics I know practice birth control anyway.
Great! That’s cheaper than 18 years of welfare and free gubbament lunches.
hey now don’t come on here trying to make sense.