The Washington Post – certainly no enemy of abortion rights and no friend to the “pro-life” movement – has evaluated Planned Parenthood\’s “only 3% of what we do is abortions” claim… and found that, other than in a strictly technical sense, it is a hot steamy load of BS.
You can read writer Ye Hee Lee\’s entire analysis by clicking here – which I very much hope you do, because every word is worth reading.
But if you want a shortened version, here is a key segment:
Planned Parenthood health centers saw 2.7 million patients (men and women) in 2013. If the 327,653 abortion procedures were given to individual patients, patients who received abortions would account for 12 percent of total patients.
There were 4.6 million clinical visits in 2013. If each woman who received an abortion visited the clinic only once for the procedure, abortions comprised 7 percent of visits that year. If each woman visited twice (a Q&A on the Web site says women need to schedule a follow-up appointment after an abortion), abortions comprised 14 percent of visits. But there is no way of knowing an accurate figure beyond the 7 percent.
Does that look like 3% to you? I didn\’t think so.
Planned Parenthood has a vested interest in keeping the truth from us – which is that it is the single most prolific abortion mill in the country, performing almost one-third of all abortions performed each year….and that a highly disproportionate percentage of the abortions it performs are on Black women – which would give its founder, the racist and eugenics supporter, Margaret Sanger, all sorts of warm fuzzies.
But, in here, we try to tell the truth. And how refreshing it is to see the Washington Post – this time around, anyway – joining in the effort.
