Former Planned Parenthood Golden Gate affiliate closing all 5 clinics in Bay Area
I reported in August 2010 that Planned Parenthood Federation of America was severing ties with Planned Parenthood Golden Gate due to financial mismanagement.
PPGG went on to change its name to Golden Gate Community Health and struggled to surmount its dire straits, in part by shuttering 2 of its 7 clinics in the process.
Now, 4 of the remaining 5 have closed, with the 5th apparently not too far behind.
Bay Citizen initially reported March 1 that GGCH closed 4 clinics on February 28, with plans to close its remaining mill in San Francisco in “about two more weeks.”
Bay Citizen updated its report the next day to say GGCH had “issued an ultimatum – give us money, or else we’re gone for good.” The GGCH board said with $800k it could keep the operation afloat, but “clinic officials are not optimistic.”
The paper said that PP affiliates opening clinics in the same customer service area, combined with donors switching loyalty to those PPs, ensured GGPH would never be able to dig out of its hole.
Life Legal Defense Foundation, an organization quite familiar with PPGG, reports:
PPGG lost $2.8 million during the tax year 2008-2009 and had not broken even since 2006. GGHC was reported to have run up a shortfall totaling $536,000 in 2010 and had attempted, apparently unsuccessfully, to raise $1.5 million in order to keep its clinics open.
At the same time it was struggling to survive financially, PPGG contributed over $750k to defeat 3 CA ballot initiatives, in 2005, 2006, and 2008, that would have required parental notification before a minor could have an abortion.
“As Congress debates continued funding of PP, it should take note of the organization’s spending priorities,” said LLDF President Dana Cody. “Furthering PP’s political agenda apparently was more important than providing all those ‘critical health services’ that we keep hearing about.“
[HT: LifeNews.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The irony of this being announced right BEFORE 40 Days for Life starting……
Actually, that would make it perfect timing. Now the 40Days For Life can focus on the bigger mills and have more people present there.
CC,
This sounds like the perfect place to roll out your new line of turkey basters. It’s a marketing bonanza.
For the rest of us who are serious individuals, this experience highlights the need for defunding PP. They simply cannot survive on their own.
We need a three-pronged strategy.
1. Cut all state and federal funding
2. Decrease the number of women seeking services
3. Class action lawsuits regarding the breast cancer incidence tied to the pill and abortions.
Missed one, there are six total because number six closed in January.
Hundreds of thousands of women probably have breast cancer because they killed their unborn children in the last forty years, including tens of thousands at Planned Parenthood. A class action lawsuit against the whole abortion industry would be most welcome.
They’re doing another 40 Days for Life? I hope they’re not going to stand out there again harassing women. I heard last time 40 Days was protesting clinics that don’t even perform abortion. For all you know she could be going for a pregnancy test or an ultrasound. Now that I’ve had my own experience with clinic harassment after “choosing life,” I really don’t like clinic protests. Sidewalk counseling is one thing (which I think only women should do), but just standing there with crosses? They didn’t offer me literature or anything, just screamed “Don’t kill the baby!” It’s intimidating, intrusive and dare I say voyeuristic? The creepiest is the middle-aged men who go out there to yell at young women. (When I went, it was all men over 40. No women in sight.)
I’ve also never met anyone who changed their minds because of a prayer vigil outside the clinic. These people are there to prove their own religious devotion, not to stop abortion.
I have.
There are thousands of women who have changed their minds and kept their babies after seeing the prayerful, PEACEFUL presence outside the mills.
I have done 40 Days for the last 3 years. I do not scream or yell neither do any of the people I am with. I am there in silent witness to pray for the end to abortion.
Ashley, Have you ever heard of Abby Johnson, former director of Planned Parenthood and PP Employee of the Year 2008?? She gives credit for her conversion to the Coalition for Life and the 40 Days for Life campaign, which is a prayer vigil.
You may not have met a mother personally who changed her mind, but 40 Days has changed minds. They count 1 if the mother approaches the people and says, “I changed my mind because you were here.” They’ve saved thousands. Some people will stop their car by the group as they leave the clinic and say, “We’re keeping our baby.”
The hard part of prayer vigils: most young women go in the door and exit later in a very bad state. We’ve seen them vomit in the parking lot, we’ve seen them collapse in tears. It’s very hard. More are lost than saved.
When there are loud groups, I’m sure there are less “saves” and in many cases no saves at all. That’s why 40 Days works so well: the vigil participants are quiet. Yelling is not tolerated. If you see people yelling or holding signs that say ‘murderer’ they are not from 40 Days. I may be snarky online, but I don’t even breathe a word to mothers entering PP. There are other vigil participants who are better trained than I. I keep brochures on me but I keep my mouth firmly shut.
Well, I don’t know. There’s a 40 Days for Life here in Columbus, I’ll drive by and see what they’re up to. As for “saves,” I’ve heard of clinic protestors claiming they saved a baby if the woman goes in and immediately comes out, or pulls into the parking lot and leaves.
If that’s the case, I really don’t hope the people who screamed at me credit themselves for me choosing life or put it down as one of their “saves,” because they didn’t.
A prayer vigil I might be okay with as long as there’s no yelling or intimidation.
These people are there to prove their own religious devotion, not to stop abortion.
How can you possibly know this Ashley? Just because this might be the reason you would do this, doesn’t mean you can speak for everyone.
A nun I heard speak this week made a comment on the order of: Doing good deeds does not make one holy, being holy makes one do good deeds.
Ashley, start talking with The Creator, pull out your Bible, get on your knees and pray, confess you sins, attend a church service, read a spiritual book or be open-minded to the holy people here so you can join in doing good deeds. We were all created to be holy.
Ashley,
I am so sorry that others screamed at you. I am sorry that you were the recipient of that.
Those of us who are there to pray try to distance ourselves from that behavior. In fact, those who yell and scream have been asked to leave.
Sometimes at the very big clinic in our area, both groups show up. The loud ones always want the most visible corner where the most cars can see them. The 40 Days people are down the street near the parking lot entrance. If you didn’t turn down that street, you’d think it was only the loud ones. The first time I went, the loud guys looked me up and down, my long skirt, my rosary beads and said, “You must be looking for them” and pointed to the quiet group.
It’s hard though. Even in our quieter area, we still get spit on and cursed at. I’ve seen more ‘flipped birds’ than a Pollo Loco. :>)
THANK YOU Carla. Praise God for your compassionate and faithful heart.
Ashley, I ‘m about to attend my city’s 40 Days for Life. I am not “religious” but I have a commitment to life. (I have 10 children and one is severely brain damaged) We do not yell, and ask Abby Johnson how the “protesters” treated her.
I don’t know Abby Johnson’s story about 40 Days. But I know she still, after her conversion, strongly disapproves of the yelling strategy, as well as graphic signs.
Just to let you know – we had two saves at our abortion clinic (Planned Parenthood) this morning.
we have a very peaceful approach and if anyone has bad behavior, we ask them to leave. Thankfully, the students and the local pro-life people have taken our lead in a prayerful and gentle witness. It’s the pro-abortion people who have been not so nice (yes – I’ve seen plenty of flipped birds, and I just say’ pointing to God again!’ and pray for them.
The quiet, prayerful approach works, and since 40 days started we have doubled the number of saves per year. I think that is frankly because of more prayer and the vigil. Ordinary people are out there, and that puts a normal face on the pro-lifers, since we are normal people. It’s people’s perceptions of what pro-life work is (with lots of help from the MSM) that has people not understand what this is all about.
oh – an no cracks about crazies who are not nice or do violence. If they do violence, then they are NOT pro-life. Pro-life is a charitable life-style. We have people who are willing to help these families, for years to come.
And the other lovely thing about this morning, we had 3 nuns from the Sisters of Life from NYC come out and pray – in their full habits. They open their convent to young women who have a crisis, and they take care of them.
so gentle loving and beautiful.
That is what 40 days is all about.
Methinks it is time for a proabort group to go undercover and expose CPC’s. Expose the discussions about fetal development, the showing of fetal models, all of the free stuff offered, expose the use of ultrasound, expose the fact that CPC’s EXIST to help women!! Yes. Some savvy group could come up with a plan!! Hop to it!! Get on it!! Document, document, document.
Please remember, Ashley, that many of us volunteer at CPC’s and sit on the boards of them. Someday you will look back on your experience with an abortion mill and your experience with a CPC. Maybe you will be able to write about the stark contrast.
Kiana,
How sweet are you? :)
And before anyone can say we will not help these women – we have their contact info and they want to remain in contact. YAY!
“At the same time it [PPGH] was struggling to survive financially, PPGG contributed over $750k to defeat 3 CA ballot initiatives, in 2005, 2006, and 2008, that would have required parental notification before a minor could have an abortion.”
Sooner or later even government sponsored whore houses like PPGH run out of other peoples money.
It would illuminating to see ‘all’ the political activity of this particular whore house.
I will go out on a very short and sturdy limb and suggest that there have been no contributions to public initiatives or politicians that could be considered conservative, or even republican.
It is a pretty safe bet all this whores political activity and particularly her political contributions have been to democRATs and liberal causes.
Are we allowed to call people “whores” here? Or Rats?
hal says: March 6, 2011 at 11:22 am
“Are we allowed to call people “whores” here? Or Rats?”
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Hal,
I acknowledge that I have referred to pp as a ‘whorehouse’.
You will have to concede that the vast majority of the people who fund, promote and defend the pp ‘whorehouse’ are progressives/liberals/humanists who are members of a particular political party.
Most of these people whoreheartedly agree with pp’s perverted philosophy and they publicy endorse her methods who, tho they prefer to spend other peoples money, even freely invest some of their own cash to fund the pp whorehouse.
Experience has shown that people who are that committed to something are true believers and as such are soulmates with the enterprise.
You see where I am going.
[I use the terms ‘whore’ and ‘whorehouse’ in a non-gender specific manner with apologies to tradititional whores everywhere for associating them with pp.]
I am sure there are some rats who are apolitical or even republican, but most of the vermin belong to the other major political party in America.
Rats do killl and eat their young.
[Apologies to four legged rats for associating them with pp and her fellow partisan whores.]
Hal,
It isn’t acceptable to call fellow posters here ‘whores’ or ‘rats’. That comes under the rubric of ad hominem.
However, Ken’s characterization of Planned Parenthood and its official sponsors seems to square with reality, though I do agree that it’s unfortunate for rats to have their identity besmirched by association with predatory humans. Rats have a better sense of community.