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We've heard the mantra from the Left: "Planned Parenthood does more than just abortions! Why, we dispense WOMEN'S CARE! and REPUBLICANS HATE WOMENS!"

American Thinker's Susan E. Wills upends their bloody little applecart ...

It's genocide, really.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has dispatched a "Truth Team" to rally opposition to the Pence Amendment (H.R. 1, sec. 4013), a measure to stop federal funding of PPFA and its 102 affiliates. But not everything said by PPFA officials and sympathetic media has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ...

Claim: "This is about women's health more than abortion" (Cecile Richards, PPFA President)

This was quoted by Jonathan Alter in a March 14 opinion piece posted on Bloomberg Opinion. But Congress already spends billions every year for women's health care, through Medicaid, Medicare and other programs. Defunding PPFA is about no longer coercing taxpayers to contribute to the nation's largest abortion chain.

In its last reported fiscal year (2008-2009), PPFA clinics aborted 332,278 children, a number equal to the entire population of Cincinnati. Since 1970, PPFA has aborted an estimated 5,300,000 children, equivalent to the entire population of Colorado.

Three more claims put out by PPFA are debunked as well; and their favorite canard ...

Reality: Access to contraception does NOT reduce abortion rates

Anyone who finds that statement shocking has not been paying attention. A study published earlier this year found that a 63 percent increase in the use of contraceptives in Spain over a ten-year period was accompanied by a 108 percent increase in the rate of elective abortions.[8] This counter-intuitive reality has also been documented in peer-reviewed journals in the U.S. and Western Europe. Studies by Peter Arcidiacono in the U.S., K. Edgardh in Sweden, and David Paton and Sourafel Girma as well as M. Wiggins et al. in the U.K., are reviewed in a USCCB fact sheet "Greater Access to Contraception Does Not Reduce Abortions."

Read the rest yourself. Unless, of course, you are a hardened LeftLibProgg who only gets mad when confronted with the sticky inconvenience that is truth.

Planned Parenthood is about ABORTION! first and foremost, don't let 'em fool you. They take their sales numbers and contort is, providing misleading data they then present as fact. Only those on the Left choose to ignore it. Because, like the Unions, PPFA gives all of their political donations to Democrats, their little indiscretions can be ignored. Why, they are friends! of the Party!, and get the treatment given to ideological pals. No matter the cost to life.

It can't be overlooked that Planned Parenthood performs abortions on a massive scale: 332,278 abortions in 2009, more than one-quarter of all abortions nationwide.
Underneath this veil of media and show-business gossamer is an organization that, contrary to the impression it works hard to create, focuses obsessively on abortion, providing ever more abortions every year, reaching out to an ever-younger clientele. The 3 percent pie slice in the 2005-06 financial report, representing 264,943 abortion customers served, can only be described as deliberately misleading.

One way Planned Parenthood massages the numbers to make its abortion business look trivial is to unbundle its services for purposes of counting. Those 10.1 million different medical procedures in the last fiscal year, for instance, were administered to only 3 million clients. An abortion is invariably preceded by a pregnancy test--a separate service in Planned Parenthood's reckoning--and is almost always followed at the organization's clinics by a "going home" packet of contraceptives, which counts as another separate service. Throw in a pelvic exam and a lab test for STDs--you get the picture. In terms of absolute numbers of clients, one in three visited Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test, and of those, a little under one in three had a Planned Parenthood abortion.

PPFA remains a viable target for spending cuts. I'm saddened that John Boehner didn't follow through and at least demand that this clever but hateful organization be defunded nationally of federal tax dollars.

At least we got 'em out of Washington D.C. That's a city that desperately needs to be uplifted from it's present degradations.

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