Sure. Only 3% of services are abortions.
“The other 97 percent of services were for contraception, treatment and tests for sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screenings, and other women’s health services.”
Or another way to measure their abortion services is to divide the total number of abortions by the number of clients.
“That would mean that roughly one out of every 10 clients received an abortion.”
Which means roughly 9 out of 10 or 90% do not.
Which is it? 97% or 90%?
This has been hashed over before, and PP’s numbers are fudged. It’s already been explained that PP lumps services together related to abortion and breaks out services unrelated to abortion. It’s well explained
here. From that link:
Where the 3% comes from
To see how Planned Parenthood arrives at this claim, look at PPFA’s March, 2011 Fact Sheet, “Planned Parenthood Services.” [1] There you’ll see Planned Parenthood’s 332,278 abortions listed as 3% of the 11,383,900 services the organization says it provided clients in 2009. If you do the math, it comes out to 2.9%.
But look closer at the page. You’ll notice that it lists every “service” Planned Parenthood does equally, whether it is a test, a surgical procedure, or handing someone a condom. Something that takes a couple of seconds and can be done by receptionist is put on par with what is supposed to be a serious operation.
Clearly, not all these “services” are equivalent. Some involve medical skill, some are rather expensive, but others are neither.
Moreover, as a matter of fact, the whole total of “services” that the percentage is based on is grossly inflated by the 3,864,842 receiving “reversible contraception” or “emergency contraception kits,” in many cases, “services” that consist of nothing more than the passing out a few packs of pills.
And you do realize that the Annenberg Foundation (which supports
factcheck.org) has provided grants to PP? Can you expect an unbiased report from an organization that donates to PP?
And “Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the federal government for abortions anyway.”
Been over this a ton of times. Money is fungible. Federal tax dollars free up PP to pay for abortion related services. Also, this doesn’t account for federal dollars being used to offset the costs of abortion related assets, such as office space, staff, procedure rooms, medical supplies, etc. Federal dollars may not be allowed to be used on the accounting balance sheet, but those federal dollars do enable PP to perform more abortions.
and why was he bluffing? this is a very serious issue for anyone to be bluffing.
