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PPFA’s and IPPF’s
organizational ties to the
eugenics movement did not
end with Sanger’s
death.
In 1997, PPFA identified
its “core clients”
as “young women, low-income
women, and women of color”
- typical eugenic targets.
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PPFA promotes family planning
and abortion for the poor
as cost-saving measures.
Eugenicists have always
argued that, if the poor
and “unfit”
were to have fewer children,
the country would save money.
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PPFA offers prenatal testing
to determine if the child
has genetic defects. Then
a “search and destroy”
abortion can be performed.
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PPFA is the largest abortion
provider in the nation and
the most prominent abortion
promoter in the world. Its
clinics perform 11% of the
total abortions in the US
(153,367 abortions in 1996)
and refer for another 55,000.
6% of PPFA’s revenue
comes from its clinics;
another 34% comes from government
grants and contracts.
In its 1998-1999 fiscal
year, The PPFA annual report
states $176.5 million was
received in government grants
and contracts.
75% of that comes from
the federal government and
the remainder from state
and local governments.
PPFA reported in its Annual
Report that it currently
has net assets totaling
$536.3 million.
It increased its net assets
by $131.5 million in just
one year.
According to the 1998-1999
annual report, affiliates
of the PPFA performed 167,928
abortions in 1998, an increase
of nearly 3,000 over 1997.
In addition to being the
nation’s largest abortion
performer, Planned Parenthood
is also the nation’s
leading abortion promoter.
Among
the activities touted in
its 1998-99 annual report
are:
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filing 10 lawsuits against
state bans on “certain
abortion procedures”
(partial-birth abortion)
and getting permanent injunctions
in seven states (AZ, FL,
KY, MT, NJ, and VA) and
restraining orders in two
other cases
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obtaining an injunction
against a Montana law requiring
parental involvement in
a minor’s abortion
decision and a 24-hour waiting
period
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lobbying members of Congress
to get them to change their
votes on abortion services
for military personnel overseas
and to vote against the
Child Custody Protection
Act
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fighting w/ Congress to
restore funding to “family
planning” programs-nationally
(Title Ten) and internationally
PPFA doesn’t detail
how much it spent strictly
on abortion advocacy or
advertising. However, its
budget indicates it spent
$20.3 million on “public
policy” in the 1998-99
fiscal year and an additional
$30.9 on fund-raising (fund-raising
ads and appeals are often
more advocacy than they
are pleas for money).
PPFA reports that within
four months of launching
its teen website, teenwire.com,
it received “nearly
100,000 visits a month and
300 sex-related questions
each week.” This is
the website that recently
offered the following advice
to teens concerning their
parents and sex:
“Your job now is
to start paying attention-take
the useful, smart stuff
you’ve learned from
your folks and kick the
crap to the curb.”
Seeing this on PPFA’s
website certainly points
up the insincerity of Planned
Parenthood’s highly
touted programs facilitating
“parent-child communication.”
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