Planned Parenthood

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“From a troubling birth as an organization committed to reducing ‘undesirable’ populations, to a billion dollar business today as the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood’s legacy as Abortion Inc. is disturbing and worsening,” said AUL’s Anna Paprocki. “Do you know how Planned Parenthood makes its money?”

MEDIA ADVISORY: To set up an interview on a pro-life perspective of Planned Parenthood’s legacy, e-mail press@aul.org 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (10-17-16) – “As Planned Parenthood celebrates its 100^th birthday, proudly proclaiming its role in making sure that millions do not live to celebrate their own births, Americans United for Life is launching a social media campaign that examines how Planned Parenthood operates today,” said AUL attorney Anna Paprocki, an leading analyst of Planned Parenthood’s business model. “Planned Parenthood is Abortion Inc., especially during the tenure of its President Cecile Richards.”

Paprocki continued: “Under Richards’ direction, life-saving care and preventative care has been sharply reduced, while the number of abortions performed has increased. Planned Parenthood’s expanding focus on abortion as its core business is intentional.  Under Richards, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America imposed an abortion mandate on its affiliates, abortion ‘mega-centers’ have been built around the country, and millions have been spent lobbying against any regulation of its big abortion business.  We must stop wasting our scarce state and federal resources, which have increasingly fueled the highly profitable, scandal-ridden, billion-dollar industry that is Planned Parenthood.”

“Each year, fewer women choose to walk into Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.  Planned Parenthood’s overall patients have declined nearly 20 percent since Cecile Richards took the reigns in 2006. Yet at the same time, and with a half-billion dollars in taxpayer support annually, Planned Parenthood has grown the nation’s largest abortion business.  This is no accident. Becoming Abortion Inc. is Planned Parenthood’s choice.”

In light of Planned Parenthood’s troubling legacy, AUL is launching a social media campaign and on-line resource detailing the facts of Planned Parenthood’s business model, which promotes a product that harms women as well as ends the lives of unborn children. 

In recent years, AUL has developed a series of special projects examining how Planned Parenthood operates.

In July of 2011, AUL released an explosive exposé, “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood,” which documents known and alleged abuses including misuse of federal healthcare and family planning funds, failure to report criminal child sexual abuse, failure to comply with parental involvement laws, apparent willingness to assist those involved in prostitution and/or sex trafficking, dangerous abuse of the abortion drug RU-486, misinformation about so-called “emergency contraception” including the new drug ella, willingness to give women deceptive and false information, and a eagerness to refer women to substandard clinics.

In September 2011, led by U.S. Congressman Cliff Stearns (then Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations), the Energy and Commerce Committee launched the first-ever investigation into Planned Parenthood’s use of taxpayer dollars and its institutional policies and practices – an investigation largely motivated by the troubling questions raised in this groundbreaking report.

In October 2012, AUL launched “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits: the continuing case for investigating the nation’s largest abortion provider.” The Exhibits, background papers released every day of October (Planned Parenthood’s anniversary month), document additional grounds to investigate—and ultimately de-fund— the abortion chain.  The Exhibits serve an important role in exposing the true nature of Planned Parenthood and cover a broad range of issues including unsealed “whistleblower” lawsuits alleging fraudulent billing practices at Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood’s health and safety violations, Planned Parenthood’s bullying of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and Planned Parenthood’s lobbying and litigation efforts to oppose to common-sense abortion laws.

Additional projects, like The New Leviathan, and Abortion Inc., examined an increased abortion business-focus at Planned Parenthood under Cecile Richards’ leadership.

To learn more about Planned Parenthood’s current business model and examine troubling questions legal questions recently brought to light, click here.

To learn more about the dangers of abortion for both women and unborn children, click here.

To join in a conversation about Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, share your thoughts with AUL on twitter through #PPisAbortionInc #100YearsOfAbuse #AbortionHarmsWomen

National pro-life groups rally grassroots to expose the truth about America’s largest abortion business ahead of its 100^th Anniversary”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (10-12-16) — A coalition of pro-life groups will launch a social media campaign this week ahead of the 100-year anniversary of Planned Parenthood on October 16. The #100YearsOfAbuse effort will expose Planned Parenthood’s systematic destruction of unborn children and abuse of women and taxpayer dollars.

According to its most recent report, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, commits nearly 324,000 abortions and receives over half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds annually.

Coalition allies will rally pro-life activists to share social media content using the hashtag #100YearsofAbuse to counter the public relations campaign Planned Parenthood has launched as a part of its anniversary celebration. The coalition includes: Alliance Defending Freedom, Americans United for Life, Civil Rights for the Unborn, Family Research Council, Life Legal Defense Foundation, March for Life, Media Research Center, Pro-Life Action League, Radiance Foundation, Students for Life of America, and Susan B. Anthony List.

In a joint statement, the organizers said:

“Planned Parenthood’s 100-year anniversary is a tragic milestone for our nation and a reminder of the millions of unborn children who will never have a birthday. We mourn these children, as well as the women who have been hurt and exploited by the nation’s largest abortion chain. Planned Parenthood was founded by the notorious Margaret Sanger, who advocated for the eradication of poor and disadvantaged, whom she considered less-than-human “weeds.” And Planned Parenthood continues to call this villain their hero by naming its highest award after her.

“In the last three years alone, Planned Parenthood has committed nearly one million abortions while receiving a total of $1.5 billion from the American people, against our will. We represent the growing number of Americans who oppose Planned Parenthood’s extreme abortion agenda and seek to defund this abortion giant.

“On its 100^th anniversary, Planned Parenthood is losing ground. Business is drying up as women are empowered to choose life for their babies. Last year Planned Parenthood closed 33 facilities in 18 states, and for the first time, the United States Senate sent a bill defunding Planned Parenthood to the President’s desk. Thanks to undercover investigators from the Center for Medical Progress, who exposed the ugly truth that Planned Parenthood not only aborts children, but sells those aborted babies’ organs, more people than ever are learning the truth about the scandal-ridden abortion chain. The #100YearsofAbuse campaign is the next opportunity for us to educate the public about Planned Parenthood as we work to put them out of business and ring in the pro-life century.”

Groups are collecting and sharing content for activists at: http://100yearsofabuse.tumblr.com/

For more on the business model of Planned Parenthood, click here.

For more on the health risks of abortion for women, click here.

“In the 11^th Center for Medical Progress video, the macabre culture of Planned Parenthood is again on full display,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (10-27-15) – In the 11^th undercover video released today by the Center for Medical Progress, “the macabre culture of Planned Parenthood is again on full display,” noted Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest. “Once again we see exposed, the ugly—and potentially illegal—reality of the abortion business run by Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood abortionist Dr. Amna Dermish literally laughs about the prospect of removing a baby’s head intact in order to harvest his or her brain in exchange for money, saying ‘this will give me something to strive for.’”

The video confirms the wisdom of several states, including Texas, that have opted to disentangle taxpayers from Planned Parenthood’s grisly abortion business and substantiates the need for further investigation. “The abortion process described by Planned Parenthood abortionist Dr. Amna Dermish confirms the need to investigate whether Planned Parenthood performs illegal partial-birth abortions in order to obtain intact organs from aborted infants.”

Dr. Dermish, who performs later-term abortions at Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas, explains to the CMP undercover actors that she was trained by PPFA Senior Medical Director, Dr. Deborah Nucatola.  In a video that was released in August, Dr. Nucatola similarly described an abortion process with a troubling resemblance to the description of an illegal partial-birth abortion—deliberately changing a baby to breech presentation so that the mother is dilated enough by the time the abortionist is ready to deliver the living baby’s head.

On September 17, AUL President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health that the CMP videos are further evidence of corporate-wide malfeasance at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates.  

In her testimony before the Committee, Dr. Yoest detailed how Planned Parenthood’s brazen public opposition to the federal and state laws restricting its use of partial-birth abortion, killing infants mere inches away from birth, predates the CMP investigative footage.  Dr. Yoest testified that “it bears remembering that Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) along with several of its Planned Parenthood affiliates also challenged this legal restraint to its ability to run its business in a ‘disturbingly similar’ fashion to infanticide.”

It now appears that losing in court may not have stopped Planned Parenthood from continuing its barbaric partial-birth abortion practice.  

Dr. Yoest testified that the CMP videos raise probable cause that Planned Parenthood violates the law. “In her discussion with undercover actors,” Dr. Yoest testified, “Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Nucatola defiantly dismisses the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban—intended to uphold the integrity of the medical profession and draw a bright line against infanticide— as ‘up to interpretation’ for abortionists like herself.”

Today’s video confirms the need to conduct a thorough investigation about what that “interpretation” entails. 

“The hard work of investigating possible illegal conduct and profiteering at Planned Parenthood is the correct response to all the evidence gathered to date on Planned Parenthood’s conduct,” said Dr. Yoest. “As Planned Parenthood is the leading abortionist chain in the nation, enriched by half-a-billion dollars each year from taxpayers, multiple investigations are required to unravel the flow of funds as well as the possibly illegal actions taking place inside the scandal-ridden organization. Americans United for Life has presented legal analysis to Congress, and each of the committees has a limited field of authority in which to investigate and must be allowed to complete their reviews.”

The following is an overview of the pending Congressional investigations and their scope: 

House Judiciary – investigating whether Planned Parenthood violated the federal partial-birth abortion act or the federal born alive infant protection act

House Energy and Commerce – investigating the procurement of fetal tissue

House Oversight Committee – investigating the financial angle of fetal tissue sales

House Select Committee – has a full, dedicated staff and the committee empowered to look at the overall issue, without interruption by other business

Senate Judiciary considering whether illegal abortion procedures are being uses and what happens to infants born alive during abortions

“Under Cecile Richards’ leadership, Planned Parenthood’s cancer screening and prevention services have been cut by more than half, while she’s grown her abortion business from 20% to 33% of all abortions performed,” observed Dr. Yoest.  “And AUL has been hard at work documenting just want happens behind the closed doors of Big Abortion, calling for hearings into possible crimes and abuses.” 

In July of 2011, AUL released an explosive exposé, “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood,” which documents known and alleged abuses including misuse of federal healthcare and family planning funds, failure to report criminal child sexual abuse, failure to comply with parental involvement laws, willingness to assist those involved in prostitution and/or sex trafficking, dangerous abuse of the abortion drug RU-486, misinformation about so-called “emergency contraception,” including the new drug ella, willingness to give women deceptive and false information, and a willingness to refer women to substandard clinics.

In September 2011, led by U.S. Congressman Cliff Stearns (then Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations), the Energy and Commerce Committee launched the first ever investigation into Planned Parenthood’s use of taxpayer dollars and its institutional policies and practices an investigation largely motivated by the troubling questions raised in this groundbreaking report.

In October 2012, AUL launched “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits: the continuing case for investigating the nation’s largest abortion provider.” The Exhibits background papers released every day in the month of October (Planned Parenthood’s anniversary month) document additional grounds to investigate, and ultimately de-fund, the abortion chain.  The Exhibits serve an important role in exposing the true nature of Planned Parenthood and cover a broad range of issues including: recently unsealed “whistleblower” lawsuits alleging fraudulent billing practices at Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood’s health and safety violations, Planned Parenthood’s bullying of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and Planned Parenthood’s lobbying and litigation efforts to oppose to common-sense laws.

For more information on AUL’s legal analysis of the CMP videos, click here.