“Planned Parenthood” in 2008-2009 earned about 40 percent of its income from providing abortions. In 2009, in performed 332,278 abortions, about one in every four abortions in the United States.
Planned Parenthood is an abortion factory. If you support that, fine, it’s your right. But just, say it.
Should I take these numbers as true? If so, why?
New Planned Parenthood Report: Record Abortions Done in 2009
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/23/11 6:14 PM
A new report the Planned Parenthood national abortion business recently released shows the embattled agency did more abortions in 2009 than it has done in any prior year. The report also shows it providing fewer pregnant women with non-abortion services.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America recently posted on its website what it calls its service numbers for 2009. This document, dated February 2011, shows Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide did 332,278 surgical abortions or abortions using the dangerous RU 486 abortion during in 2009.
That’s 2.5 percent more abortions than the September 2010 report the abortion business released covering 2008 and showing it doing 324,008 abortions, which was a 6.1 percent increase over the 305,310 abortions it did in 2007. The 2007 figure was itself a 5.3 percent increase over the 289,750 abortions Planned Parenthood did in 2006.
With approximately 1.2 million abortions done annually in the United States via surgical abortions or the mifepristone abortion drug, Planned Parenthood has increased its share of the abortion industry to 27.6 percent of all abortions done annually.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/23/new-planned-parenthood-report-record-abortions-done-in-2009/
update:
Planned Parenthood reports record number of abortions in 2012
Planned Parenthood reported a record number of abortions in 2012 as America's largest abortion provider performed a record 333,964 abortions by year's end which pushed Planned Parenthood's three year total to 995,687 abortions according to its annual report.
It is estimated that since Roe-Wade became the law of the land in the early 1970s, over 55 million abortions have been performed in the United States.
Although President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2010 promising not to fund abortions with federal tax dollars, Planned Parenthood reported a record $542 million dollars in taxpayer funding.
http://www.examiner.com/article/planned-parenthood-reports-record-number-of-abortions-2012