Randall K. O'Bannon with the National Right to Life Committee looked into Planned Parenthood's government funding and abortion numbers and found that as government funding of Planned Parenthood has increased over the last decade so too have the number of abortions performed at Planned Parenthood clinics.
Planned Parenthood often argues that increased funding will enable them to reduce the numbers of abortion, but their own organizational reports don’t seem to show that.
The amount that Planned Parenthood has gotten from federal, state, and local governments has been increasing steadily over the past several years, more than doubling since 1998, but abortions done at Planned Parenthood have not gone down. In fact, they have increased dramatically during that same period, rising at a rate … that very nearly matches the rate of those funding increases (see chart).
Revenue Planned Parenthood receives in “Government Grants & Contracts” has gone from $165 million in 1998 to $363.3 million in the organization’s fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. During the same time, and at roughly the same rate, abortions have more than doubled at Planned Parenthood, from 165,509 in 1998 to 332,278 in 2009.
All this while abortions in the U.S., as a whole, dropped by about 25%.
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