If Planned Parenthood collapses, the abortion industry collapses, Part II
Is it really conceivable that Planned Parenthood could crash, bringing the entire abortion industry down with it? I answer that question today.
Backdrop: “If Planned Parenthood collapses, the abortion industry collapses, Part I.”
As powerful and wealthy as Planned Parenthood appears, its position is tenuous, upheld only by political friends and courts. In contraceptive terms, Planned Parenthood has no Plan B.
Planned Parenthood would hardly have noticed losing taxpayer funding 50 years ago, in 1964. This was when it reported its first government subsidy - chump change of $8,500. Planned Parenthood’s annual income at the time was $6.2 million, 70% of which came from donors, and 30% from clinics.
By 1970, Planned Parenthood’s annual income had jumped to $26.4 million, thanks in large part to taxpayers, who contributed 43% of the total. It was during this period that Planned Parenthood began multiplying clinics. According to Jim Sedlak of American Life League:
In 1962, the year before it received its first taxpayer funds, Planned Parenthood operated fewer than 200 clinics. By 1973, that number had exploded to 700. This, of course, meant that Planned Parenthood’s influence in our nation grew greatly because of government largesse.
In FY2013, 45% of Planned Parenthood’s whopping $1.21 billion income came from taxpayers, to the tune of $540.6 million. Today only 26% of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue is derived from donations, and 25% from clinics.
How dependent is Planned Parenthood’s nationwide chain on government funding? As Sedlak pointed out, Planned Parenthood was only able to build its conglomerate with taxpayer help.
And only last week Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin claimed it had to close its fifth clinic since 2013 all due to a mere $1 million loss in state funding.
One should expect a certain amount of fudging on Planned Parenthood’s part; it has been known to conveniently blame clinic closures on government defunding when they were themselves to blame.
But it must also be true that Planned Parenthood is only able to sustain its massive infrastructure with government help. And that is where its potential downfall lies.
“I have always said that if all state and federal tax-funding were cut off from Planned Parenthood, their abortion empire would collapse like dominos,” wrote Operation Rescue’s Cheryl Sullenger via email. “I doubt if more than a handful of clinics of any affiliation could survive without an artificial influx of money from outside sources.”
Sedlak agreed: “Planned Parenthood is set up for destruction if Americans ever get the guts to elect politicians who care.”
Planned Parenthood made the decision long ago to tie its future to the whims of government. Its leaders apparently never considered the organization might some day become anathema, with a segment of the population and politicians calling for it to be defunded.
Whatever murmuring may have been heard before only became real noise beginning in 2007, when Live Action launched its investigations against Planned Parenthood, first revealing the organization would accept donations specifically to abort black babies, then that it would cover up underage rape, then that it would aid and abet sex traffickers, then that it would commit sex-selective abortions, and most recently that it would encourage minors to engage in violent BDSM.
Add to that charges around the country of Medicaid fraud, failure to report child sexual abuse, substandard clinics, and perverted doctors, and you begin to see momentum that has blossomed into a bill to defund Planned Parenthood and a congressional investigation of the organization.
If not for President Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood might already be going the way of Enron. It is only he who kept Planned Parenthood from being defunded on the federal level in 2011 and in several more states than it already has.
Planned Parenthood knows this. It knows it is only one presidential election away from seeing its political fortunes turn to dust.
Losing the Senate in 2014 would be an advance blow, hence Planned Parenthood’s plan to spend a whopping $18 million this election cycle, in large part attacking the “Extreme Six” Republican Senate candidates who could swing the majority, setting up for a Republican trifecta in 2016.
Planned Parenthood’s situation is all the more dire when considering it could lose its tax-exempt status if convicted of Medicaid fraud, cases of which are beginning to snowball; or lose the windfall profits it is anticipating if Obamacare is overturned or if the contraceptive mandate and abortion funding are repealed; or lose its lucrative contraceptive pill trade (for which it has been known to double- and triple-bill taxpayers) if it is made available over-the-counter.
Added to the recent slew of pro-life laws, the fragility of the abortion industry becomes clear when also considering its eggs are increasingly in one basket, and that basket is wearing thin. From the STOPP Report, September 24:
STOPP’s 2013 Survey of Planned Parenthood facilities shows the abortion giant suffered the eighth straight year of decline in both total facilities and affiliates. Planned Parenthood reported running a total of 695 clinic facilities as of December 30, 2013 - the lowest number reported since 1973.Planned Parenthood’s number of affiliates decreased from 74 in 2012 to 71 in 2013, continuing the trend of massive consolidation in management since the high point of 191 Planned Parenthood affiliates in 1978.
We have continued to see a hefty stream of closures in 2014. Planned Parenthood most frequently cited pressure from legislation, be it defunding efforts or laws tightening clinic standards, as the main reason for facility closures during 2013. In states where legislative pressure was not felt, it most frequently reported facility closures due to a dwindling customer base and efforts to consolidate facilities nearer to its core demographic. In 2013, 79% of the facilities closed were contraceptive-only facilities.
It is clear that Planned Parenthood is preparing for even more facility closures as it implements its community organizer model and online birth control counseling. As it does so, it is focusing more and more on its lucrative abortion business.
Because it has to. Planned Parenthood is driven to take over the abortion industry by greed and survival, needing a financial stream aside from the government funding model it has grown dependent on, and also banking on government funding of abortion.
And the abortion lobby is helpless to stop what insiders surely must see as a coming train wreck.
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.
A truly dis-serving bunch.The devil spreads his pain everywhere. Stay out of his way!
Hmm, we’ll see. I think the Left has too much invested in PPFA, they kill their own children; they would sacrifice every other part of their agenda to the last extremity if PPFA were the only abortion provider, the depth of the evil is too deep for them to come to grips with. Planned Parenthood knows this and that’s why they have their monopoly, abortion activists will yell at them in the morning but must jump into a volcano for them in the evening, they are too big to fail. I see PPFA going down well after Roe does. But I could be wrong and I do act like I am!
Very encouraging thoughts here! I truly believe I and my children will live to see the end of legal abortion in this country!
Now please do a Part III and tell us all what we can do to help hasten the demise of the evil giant!
It is amazing how quickly the tide has turned.
Just a few years ago, Obama was the shining and unassailable new champion of Planned Parenthood. Pelosi pushed the ACA through a Democratic House with all of Planned Parenthood’s provisions intact. It sailed through the Senate by a clever maneuver that prevented the threat of a filibuster. They expected a flood of women seeking contraception with no copay, so they feel like they are getting it for free. There would be plenty of contraception sales and plenty of unwanted pregnancies, and plenty of women who were already trained to go to Planned Parenthood facilities. Planned Parenthood was going to be rich, rich, rich! Building mega-clinics in every state like those in Houston, TX and Aurora, IL.
Their only mistake: They forgot to reckon on the American people. We didn’t share Planned Parenthood’s vision for our future.
Since Washington does not represent us, we turned to our state legislatures. We turned to our Attorneys General. We turned out on our sidewalks. We were undaunted by Wendy Davis and her mob chanting “Hail Satan.”
We will prevail against Big Abortion, just as we prevailed over Big Tobacco.
I’m getting REEEAAALLY tired of the “safe, legal abortion” garbage!
It might be “legal” (for now), but it is NOT (and never has been) “safe” !
The very ACT itself – forcing open a closed(medical term- “unripe”) cervix (which is MEANT to be closed)with metal instruments/strong chemicals, introducing a strong suction machine/ scraping tool into the uterus…
In NO WAY is that “safe” ! (Not to mention what it does to the BABY)
But the “abortion cheerleaders” won’t tell women that.
The political ads & endorsements by PP in my state all depend on a false equivalency: abortion = birth control = health care, all of which should be free on demand. My state has gone “blue” because of the cowardice of male political candidates who disagree but don’t want anyone to know it.
Looks like it’s left to pro-life female voters to counter this lunacy.
If PP collapses so does the entire industry…well thats what were hoping for. Also tired of the old stale “ani choicers dont care about women.” Well ive been a nurse since 1988 and a sick woman has always gotten the same amount of attention and care from me as a sick man. Also I like choices. I drive a Mustang because I choose to. I color my hair because I choose to. I order food I like because I choose to.
I like the fact that a private clinic closed here. I wish I could more positive but I believe even if I live to old age abortion will remain legal. Too many moonbats want it to stay legal as do the women on the Supreme court. Just keep trying.
Anti choice? Then its only fair to call them pro death. Hail satan? Creepy.
We were talking about free abortion. Please if you have time run Preterm ( an Ohio abortion clinic ) ask the search engine if welfare insurance is accepted. It SURE is! It says bring your Medicaid card or Caresource card ( welfare insurance )…so women in Cleveland are getting free abortions and birth control.
Im not saying abortionists are reducing prices but tax payers flip the bill. Also plenty of girls call their doctors for Plan B and welfare covers it!
Plan B doesn’t work. It’s main “efficacy” has always been as to funnel women towards the abortion clinics.
Hi pharmer1 it doesnt?? What does it do? Now im very curious.
Ik id heard correctly that a lot of women had used the welfare medical to pay for abortion.
Hi heather. Pharmer1 is referring to the insert pamphlet. It states (and it’s true) if you weigh more than 166 lbs then the hormones in Plan B are ineffective and your risk for pregnancy remains the same.
Since most of the American population is overweight (not necessarily obese), this product won’t work as intended for most women. Thus, leading to unintended pregnancy, who are then looking to abortion to “fix the problem”.
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Jim
We met several years ago when you spoke at our Parish in Plano, TX. That was the beginning of my Prolife activity. Your message about planned parenthood and their 10 year old sex training book opened my eyes. I wanted to ask if you have any plans or need a reason to come to Dallas. If so I was considering organizing a prolife/respect life event to open more eyes. I would coordinate this with the Dallas Diocese Respect Life ministry.