- One such syndicate, Planned Parenthood, fired its president for not focusing on abortion
- Insists on being able to push abortion with your tax dollars at clinics it operates
- Knows it will still get lots of tax money as Trumps pro-life rule only affects certain aspects of its operations
- The amount forgone, $60 million, represents less than 4% of PP’s yearly income
- PP knows its wealthy eugenic oriented donors will replace the relative pocket change
A front page QC Times article yesterday was sympathetic to abortion syndicates and others by only quoting “tax-dollars-for-abortion advocacy” sources and no one with a contrary view supportive of President Trump’s policy to separate family planning and abortion. However the paper probably does not realize it gives up the argument that implementation of the rule will affect “reproductive health care” delivery.
Clinic won’t talk about abortion under new rule (online version different)
According to the QCT article clinics on the Illinois side were already forgoing federal tax dollars for abortion advocacy as the state’s pro-abortion governor and legislature had already decided for them (and no doubt will make it up using whatever financial legerdemain they can muster in their debt-ridden population-exodus-burdened state as abortion is such a priority with that ilk). But, according to the article, having forgone the Title X money the clinics in that system will do “counseling” but will not do referrals even though they could!
On the Iowa side the interview is with the Community Health Care-Edgerton Women’s Center in Davenport which receives Title X funds but will abide by the rule. Accordingly abortion clinics in Iowa City or wherever lose their tax supported sales agents.
But in spite of assertions in the article “reproductive care” properly understood is not affected as family planning contraceptives and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases will continue at locations in this area on both sides of the river. Abortion is not family planning unless family planning includes killing a member of the family. Otherwise offing your uncle prior to the next reunion might be considered “family planning.”
The QCT managed another incongruous thing as part of their article bolstering our point that abortion is not family planning. They showed a picture of a woman and unborn baby undergoing instrumentation with the caption “A registered nurse uses a Doppler baby scanner as part of a prenatal care exam in 2015 at Edgerton Women’s Health Center, Davenport”
What was that again — a Doppler baby scanner — hmmm so a baby is already present!!
The following article by Brad Mattes at Life Issues Institute explains more of President Trump’s policy vis-à-vis Planned Parenthood.
This week, Planned Parenthood (PP) forfeited $60 million in Title X tax funding instead of getting out of the abortion business. That was their share of a total $286 hundred million earmarked for family planning services.
The president’s Protect Life Rule prevents any entity that provides or refers for abortion from receiving Title X funds.
Is the President’s decision justified? Let’s take a summary look.
Title X dollars are fungible when it comes to abortion. For example, PP abortion facilities use it as a slush fund, spending the money on advertising, staffing, utilities, rent, office supplies or computers. These assets are used to facilitate both family planning services and abortion. The Protect Life Rule draws a bright line between family planning and the abortion industry by excluding entities that refer for or provide abortion.
Planned Parenthood had developed an end-run game around Title X money and the Hyde Amendment which prohibits tax dollars from funding abortion. It’s reported the organization will only refer women to another PP facility for an abortion, even if it’s hours away and a non-affiliated abortion center is nearby. So, PP collected Title X tax funding and then referred women to other PP abortion facilities that were paid to do the abortions.
Does Planned Parenthood need Title X funding to exist? These PP realities were compiled by Jeanneane Maxon, JD, with Charlotte Lozier Institute.
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- According to their 2017/2018 annual report they have $1.9 billion in assets
- $1.6 billion in income, a 14% increase over the year before
- $245 hundred million in excess revenue over expenses, more than double the previous year
- $216 to $334 hundred million estimated income from abortion
- $244 hundred million in estimated Medicaid reimbursements
Does Planned Parenthood actually provide legitimate health care services to women? While the abortion giant continues to increase the number of abortions it commits – most recently 332,757 in a single year – according to a SBA/CLI statistical report, its non-abortion services have dramatically decreased.
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- The number of unique patients has dropped 20%
- Total services are down 11%
- Preventive services of cancer screening, including pap smears and breast exams have declined a whopping 67%
- Contraception services are down 31%
- Prenatal services have dropped 78%
Planned Parenthood’s priority and major function is abortion.
Will women go without family planning services because Planned Parenthood no longer receives Title X funding?
According to Health and Human Services, Planned Parenthood’s fewer than 400 facilities that received Title X tax dollars represented less than 10% of the 4,000 sites that benefit from its family planning program.
Further, thousands of Community Health Care Centers throughout the nation far outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities and provide family planning in addition to a host of other medical services for women.
Women don’t need Planned Parenthood and they are better served by bona fide, more broad-based medical clinics. They aren’t the only winners. A majority of the American taxpayers also benefit.
