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Beacon Author
on January 9, 2013 at 02:36 pm
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FACTS ABOUT PLANNED PARENHOOD.
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Planned Parenthood released its annual report covering FY 2011-2012, which contains figures for services provided for calendar year 2011.
Some highlights:
* During fiscal year 2011-2012, Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. Taxpayer funding consists of 45% of Planned Parenthood's annual revenue. Planned Parenthood reported $87.4 million in excess revenue, and more than $1.2 billion in net assets.
* In 2011, Planned Parenthood performed a record-high 333,964 abortions. Over the past three reported years (2009-2011), Planned Parenthood has performed nearly one million abortions (995,687).
* Planned Parenthood reported a total of three million clients in 2011, meaning that 11% of all Planned Parenthood clients received an abortion.
* In 2011, abortions made up 92% of Planned Parenthood's pregnancy services, while prenatal care and adoption referrals accounted for only 7% (28,674) and 0.6% (2,300), respectively. For every adoption referral, Planned Parenthood performed 145 abortions.
* Cancer screening & prevention services and contraceptive services provided by Planned Parenthood continue to drop. Contraceptive services have dropped by 12% since 2009, and cancer screening & prevention services have dropped by 29%.
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NDSU partnership with PP?
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Is this the partnership we want? Do we want the Planned Parenthood model educating our teenagers, and then asking them to educate their peers?
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Tom D Freier
North Dakota Family Alliance Action
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