Planned Parenthood Lies About Contraception and Abortion Rates

I found this information about Planned Parenthood interesting, especially since it comes from the left-leaning website The Daily Beast. Planned Parenthood, usually associated with government money and abortions (although staunchly denying that any government money is used to fund abortions), needs a reality check. From The Daily Beast article, we learn some interesting things about Planned Parenthood and its stated mission:

1) Planned Parenthood claims that without its contraception services, more women would get abortions. Yet:

Over [the past decade], the U.S. government has funneled billions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, in large part because the organization claims to provide services to avoid unplanned pregnancies – a laudable goal. Yet despite a robust budget—Planned Parenthood reported a total annual revenue of $1.1 billion in its last financial filing—the organization has done absolutely nothing to change the fundamental dynamics of the United States' abortion rate....

To preserve its federal subsidy, Planned Parenthood continues to claim that without its contraception services the abortion rate will go up. This deception smacks of a fleecing of taxpayers in an effort to promote an ideological agenda, rather than a sincere effort to help women plan families.

2) Planned Parenthood publicly claims its goals are to protect women's health. Yet:

According to its most recent tax filing, the purpose of Planned Parenthood Federation of America is to provide leadership in "[a]chieving, through informed individual choice, a U.S. population of stable size in an optimum environment; in stimulating and sponsoring relevant biomedical, socio-economic, and demographic research."

So it is, in reality, a population-control organization.

This infomation doesn't come as any surprise to those who disapprove of Planned Parenthood's hidden agenda and abuse of taxpayer money. It does point to a group, aligned with leftist ideology, which cannot tell the truth about its purposes and goals for the simple reason that few people would support such an ideology. And if Planned Parenthood lies about contraception and population control, what other things does it hide?

It's time to defund Planned Parenthood. Let's see how it survives in the market economy.