Yesterday Claire and I were praying in front of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in northwest Omaha (93rd and Binney) which had just opened for business. I also did a brief interview with KPTM there, sharing just a few of the reasons that Vital Signs Ministries joins many, many others in protesting the presence of such a grisly, immoral place.I pointed out the huge profits that Planned Parenthood makes. For instance, in the fiscal year of 2006-2007, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America income was $1.018 billion. That's right, kids. $1.018 "b" (as in barbarism) billion. That, by the way, was up 11% from the previous year.
Not bad for a not-for-profit charity, huh?
And despite the enormous profits Planned Parenthood makes from selling surgical abortions and various abortifacient drugs, a third of their income comes from taxpayers!
Keep in mind also that they continue to get tax revenues even though they end each year with a vast surplus of cash. The excess profit for 2006-2007 alone was $114.8 million.
I also explained to the reporter (and through a press release that was sent out to other news outlets) that Planned Parenthood is the #1 abortionist in the United States. They now account for 20% of all abortions. In the same year mentioned above, the organization killed 289,750 preborn human beings. That was up more than 9% from the previous year.
And the numbers of abortions committed by Planned Parenthood in more recent years are higher still.
And though they love to insist they are a pro-choice organization that also offers adoptive referrals, only 2,410 customers were referred to adoption agencies. That's less than 1%.
Among Planned Parenthood's other shameful activity is the promotion and enablement of sexual promiscuity. They do so with aggressively immoral "sex education" materials and classes as well as the sales and distribution of condoms, various birth control drugs and devices (frequently abortifacient) and surgical abortions. In so doing, they can rightly be blamed for much of the tragic effects of the sexual revolution: the epidemic levels of sexually transmitted disease, the heartbreak and alienation caused by sexual sin, the serial "hooking up" which becomes practice for divorce, the plight of millions being raised by single parents, the breakdown of parental authority and, of course, the ongoing holocaust of abortion.
As I said to the KPTM reporter, "It is a sad day for a neighborhood when Planned Parenthood opens up shop."
For more on Planned Parenthood and how it contrasts with the compassionate, moral services provided by pro-life pregnancy centers, read Barb Malek's recent essay, "324,008 deaths or 700 lives? Where Should the Money Go?"
