December 21, 2004

BUMPER CROP:

Planned Parenthood Has Profitable Year: Group performed about 250,000 abortions and made $35 million in 2004. (Steve Jordahl, 12/21/04, Citizen Link)

Abortions have increased, profits are up and federal dollars keep rolling in, according to the 2004 annual report of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

The group performed almost a quarter million abortions last year and netted a profit of $35 million—despite closing some clinics—thanks to a lot of taxpayer funding.

"We estimate that Planned Parenthood took in $104 million from doing abortions, and that that represented about one-third of the total income that they had from their clinics around the country," said Jim Sedlak, founder and president of STOPP International, an outreach of the American Life League.

"Planned Parenthood insists as a business that every one of their clinics must make money or it gets closed down. It makes no difference what the federation as a whole is doing."


Just think what that murderous harvest would be worth if John Kerry had won and they could sell the stem cells to the government for research.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 21, 2004 5:30 PM
Comments

Yeah, why all this expense when coathangers are a dime a dozen? I would rather my tax money went towards executing the mentally ill.

Posted by: Dave at December 21, 2004 7:08 PM

It really is a missed opportunity. Now all the Christians have to go to China to get their fetal stem cell implants. Actually, that is ok with me. Better it be chinese fetuses instead of good strong white ones.

Posted by: jri at December 21, 2004 7:32 PM

Awful lotta trolls here tonight, OJ.

Posted by: Mike Morley at December 21, 2004 8:51 PM

Dave: That was the secret of Bill Clinton's election.

Posted by: David Cohen at December 21, 2004 9:08 PM

This is sickening. It is no less sickening than would be a 1944 headline that read, "Nazis roast 2.5 million Jews this year, and take in $50 million." The abortion baby-murdering machine in America is a tragedy of Hitlerian proportions. I mourn for those little babies, dying in horror and pain, and for the abortionists with hot-iron-seared consciences who do not realize what a Holocaust they are precipitating. My only comfort is that Heaven is brimming with cute ones.

Steve
DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS

Posted by: Steve Bragg at December 21, 2004 9:34 PM

"Planned Parenthood insists as a business that every one of their clinics must make money or it gets closed down. It makes no difference what the federation as a whole is doing."

I'd be interested in seeing an accounting of how PP earns its bucks. They claim their primary service is to dispense information and help clients make informed decisions. But how much do they make if a client chooses to put a baby up for adoption as opposed to turning it into meat?

Posted by: Popeye at December 21, 2004 10:41 PM

Steve: Bravo Zulu.


Generally: I usually just think of PP in terms of being murderers. We have to remind ourselves that sometimes the SS is in the gold tooth business.

Posted by: Lou Gots at December 21, 2004 10:42 PM

Abortions are up under Bush.

Posted by: a simple fact at December 22, 2004 2:55 AM

Would aborted babies go to Heaven? They haven't been baptised. I thought the Church officially dispensed with the notion of Limbo.

Posted by: Governor Breck at December 22, 2004 7:19 AM

simple:

That canard has been rather thoroughly debunked.

http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/016970.html

Posted by: oj at December 22, 2004 8:54 AM

If past performance is any future guide, abortions would have declined in a Kerry presidency. According the CDC, the abortion rate (number of legal abortions per 1000 women 15-44) was relatively stable under Reagan and G.H.W. Bush, then dropped significantly under Clinton. The abortion rate increased during G.W. Bush's first term. The honest assessment is that the abortion rate is correlated with poverty rates for women, because a disproportionate number of poor women have abortions. Presidents who reduce poverty in the US tend to reduce the abortion rate.

Posted by: peggy maren at December 22, 2004 1:23 PM

Ms maren:

Your latter assertion is not based on CDC figures but mere conjecture.

Posted by: oj at December 22, 2004 1:32 PM

"Just think what that murderous harvest would be worth if John Kerry had won and they could sell the stem cells to the government for research."

it is asinine, ignorant statements like this one that keep the masses msinformed about stem cell research. the stem cells used don't come from aborted fetuses, they come from fertilized embryos that have been created for use for in vitro techniques and the like and then frozen. since only some of the embryos are used, the other ones, if not used for stem cell research, are destroyed.

try and think before you shoot your mouth off. because of hysterical outbursts like that, all the patents in this new and potentially extremely profitable fields will be owned by europeans. leaving our country at a significant economic disadvantage.
-milo

Posted by: milo at December 22, 2004 2:29 PM

milo:

Once there's cash to be made y'all will be selling the fetuses as fast as you can. Let the euros destroy what little remains of their cultural souls.

Posted by: oj at December 22, 2004 2:40 PM

oj, i don't think you were paying attention. as i said, the stem cells come from frozen embryos that are never ever in a million years going to become people. i'm going to repeat the word again, just so you know that it's not a fetus. it is an E M B R Y O. it will not mature into a fetus until weeks after it has implanted into the uterine lining. since these frozen embryos are going to be destroyed, they will not be implanted into a uterus, and will never mature into fetuses. this is all basic sex ed stuff, let me know if i've lost you again.

ignorance makes baby Jesus cry.

Posted by: milo at December 25, 2004 7:59 PM

milo:

Once there's cash to be made y'all will be selling the fetuses as fast as you can. Let the euros destroy what little remains of their cultural souls.

Posted by: oj at December 25, 2004 9:24 PM

once again, there are ZERO fetuses involved. but way to make a mature, well-thought argument.

also, neither i nor anyone i know has any connections to any kind of fetus market.

Posted by: milo at December 28, 2004 4:20 PM

milo:

Once there's cash to be made y'all will be selling the fetuses as fast as you can. Let the euros destroy what little remains of their cultural souls.

Posted by: oj at December 28, 2004 5:57 PM
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