A new annual report covering fiscal year 2006-2007 shows Planned Parenthood made $1 billion dollars in income for the first time in its history.   This is an increase over their $972 million income for 2005-2006.   The report also revealed that the “non-profit” organization has doubled its “excess of revenue over expenses” from $55.7 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006.   Planned Parenthood’s report acknowledged the receipt of $336 million in taxpayer funding from federal and state grants and contracts.

The report clearly reveals the pro-abortion organization is still the nation’s largest abortion provider.   Roughly 25 percent of all U.S. abortions are done by Planned Parenthood, with numbers rising each year.   The recent report shows the number of abortions at 289,750, a nine percent increase over the 2005-2006 fiscal year number of 264,943.   During that time period, however, the number of abortions nationally declined.   The number of Planned Parenthood clients receiving prenatal care (11,058) is minuscule compared to the abortion numbers, and is also a 20 percent decline from the 2005-2006 total of 13,261.   The number of adoption referrals was a paltry 2,400.   

Planned Parenthood organizations in several states have been recently accused of accepting overtly racist donations targeting minority populations, especially blacks.   The Advocate magazine recently released a video exposing these racist attitudes (www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwif0VMW3c4).   Posing as a donor, UCLA law student James O’Keefe phoned facilities in Oklahoma and New Mexico asking to make a donation to be specifically used to abort an African-American baby.   Planned Parenthood officials assured him they would be happy to accept and target his donation.  

During National Volunteer Week last April, Planned Parenthood claimed to have over 20,000 volunteers nationwide.   This is a challenge for more pro-lifers to get involved in the fight against abortion, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research.   While the pro-life community likely has more volunteers, Planned Parenthood’s claim should motivate us to work harder to find more.

Chapters of the “Komen Race for the Cure” breast cancer group gave Planned affiliates over $700,000 last fiscal year.   STOPP International’s Jim Sedlak said the donations are troubling, since millions of pro-life Americans will participate in Komen’s fundraising events.   Studies have shown that abortion increases a woman’s chances of contracting breast cancer (refer to article by Joel Brind on page XXX).   Sedlak explained, “The fact that Komen affiliates give money to Planned Parenthood contradicts Komen’s claim that it works to end breast cancer.   This is ridiculous and must stop.”   Sedlak urged pro-lifers to make Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion mission clear to Komen officials and event participants.

Finally, a study by University of Michigan researchers has confirmed that a process recommended by Planned Parenthood affiliates has likely contributed to the deaths of women taking the abortion drug RU 486.   So far, eight American women have died after using the drug, four of them California women who died within a week after taking the drug they received from Planned Parenthood.   Planned Parenthood had recommended that women take the second of the two-drug process, misoprostol, vaginally, instead of orally and in a doctor’s office, as the FDA recommends.   National Right to Life’s Randall O’Bannon observed, “That much of the abortion industry disregarded the FDA protocol for so long displays either a disregard for the safety of women or a sense that they somehow knew better than the government’s top scientists.   In either case, they are hardly the sort of people women should be trusting with their lives.”