Counter the Culture: Abortion as an industry
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Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers profit from Abortion. They operate from a business standpoint.
From 2005 to 2006 Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, increased the number of abortions is committed from 264,943 to 289,650. With that increase, total revenue was over 1 billion dollars. The profit margin (excess revenue over expenses) went from 55.7 million to 112 million. This included taxpayer dollars in the form of government grants and contracts in excess of $336 million dollars (Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Annual Report 2006).
Planned Parenthood lobbies our government to remove abortion restrictions in order to continue to assure future financial profits. In 2006, Planned Parenthood Political Action Committees spent 53.1 million dollars to adjust public policy. (Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Annual Report, 2006).
More adoptions mean decreased profits: There is no financial motivation for Planned Parenthood, or any abortion provider to offer adoption referrals. In 2006, Planned Parenthood increased the number of abortions committed by 48%. In that same year, adoption referrals decreased by 81% (Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Annual Report 2006).
Abortion Providers have high doctor turnover: Included in the upcoming RHA legislation in New York State (Reproductive Health Act) is an agenda item to demote the licensing requirements for professionals who perform abortions. Instead of requiring abortions to be performed by medical physicians, the requirement has been lowered to allow “qualified licensed health practioners” to perform abortions. This broad terminology can be interpreted to allow a nurse practitioners or other health care worker to perform abortions. The ramifications of this change in medical requirements are detrimental to the health and safety of women.
The motivation behind this change is to ensure the Abortion Industry a steady supply of professionals willing to perform abortions. Licensed physicians are increasingly hesitant to perform abortions and leave their positions much sooner than do physicians who practice in other areas of medicine.
The number of U.S. abortion providers is on the decline. Between 2000 and 2005, providers decreased by 2%. By 2005, 87% of all US counties lacked an abortion provider. ( Jones RK et al., Abortion in the United States: incidence and access to services, 2005, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2008, 40(1):6–16.)
Abortion clinics give their employees training in successful sales tactics: In her autobiographical film, Light of Life, Carol Everett, a former abortion clinic owner, details specific sales technique used by her employees to sell abortions to women and confirms that profit and not the well-being of women motivated her business. Smiling models in Yellow Page ads and on the internet appeal to women in distress by promising safe, comfortable, confidential abortion services. Clinics are designed to have a “spa – like” atmosphere and nurses and clinicians are trained to play into to a women’s fear, uncertainty and sense of urgency in order to close the abortion deal. (Light of Life, Mission City).
Counter the Culture. Abortion is big business that puts profits first, women second.