I reported March 25 that the Planned Parenthood Federation had closed 5 FL clinics apparently due to financial shenanigans by member(s) of their oversight affiliate.

American Life League's Planned Parenthood watchdog arm STOPP added this in an email alert yesterday:

There is much confusion about the status of Planned Parenthood clinics in Boca Raton, FL and the surrounding areas. According to various reports, PP is scrambling as the local affiliate, Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties, is having severe financial difficulties....

Information received by STOPP indicates that, apparently, 5 clinics run by this affiliate still have their doors open, but are not seeing any customers. PP customers are reportedly being referred to other local providers. We also note that the affiliate's web site has been taken down.

According to one report, the affiliate's Form 990, a reporting form that certain tax-exempt organizations must file annually with the IRS, showed total revenue of $3,361,439, and a deficit of $12,709 for 2005. This is hardly enough of a loss to cause major problems.

The actual reason for these changes is more likely tied to 4 board members resigning in the past few years over management questions. Moreover, several weeks ago, the affiliate's chief executive resigned and was replaced by an interim officer. It should also be noted that Planned Parenthood Federation of America recently audited the affiliate's operations.

There is... speculation that this affiliate will merge with...
[an]other.... Employees have been laid off and it appears that some clinics will close while the merger takes place. PP claims that a merger would make it "better, stronger and more efficient," but what else can PP say? It wouldn't want to inform the public that it is falling apart.

According to the March 20 Palm Beach Post, PP's only live operation at the moment is its teen comprehensive sex ed program, for which it is getting $257k this year from Palm Beach County. So it is teaching kids how to have sex without providing inadequate mop up tools.

Is PP worried about the IRS, embezzlement? From the PBP story:

[I]n June... a former employee filed a wrongful termination letter with the agency demanding $500,000 in back pay and damages....

As part of the complaint, employee Nedezda Martinez asserted that the organization's 2006 annual financial statement was inaccurate.... The board then ordered an audit, [her attorney Samuel Lopez] said. Lopez and [Marilyn] Krantz [affiliate CEO until 2001] said they were told by Planned Parenthood officials the board was checking, among other issues, whether money was missing.

first of all, many organizations go through financial problems. It's not usually criminal or evil. It's rough out there. Even "mismanagement" is usually a series of honest mistakes.

And this statement:
"So it is teaching kids how to have sex without providing inadequate mop up tools."

Kids already know how to have sex, believe me. Sex Ed is to teach them how not to get pregnant and get diseases.

"Mop up tools" Jill?

I think your biggest complaint is you won't be able to tar this chapter as part of a multi-billion dollar murder-for-profit operation.

Hal, according to Guttmacher, comprehensive sex ed is taught to 75% of school adolescents, and this has been taught 40 years. Where's your proof it's working? In fact, isn't the proof rather that it has been a dismal failure?

Jill - ONE county with a handful of clinics having some financial and administrative upheaval = "the organization is falling apart"??

Really?

Actual reality would beg to differ, but okay.

You must not be too familiar with the airline industry. They go through these sort of problems on a nearly weekly basis - resignations, mergers, debt, stations being shut down, etc - and yet... there are more flights now out of U.S. airports than ever before, enough so that airports are overwhelmed.

But I guess if this kinda thing gets you all excited, who I am to tell you not to be? Haha...

Also at http://www.lifenews.com/state3044.html

"Hal, according to Guttmacher, comprehensive sex ed is taught to 75% of school adolescents, and this has been taught 40 years. Where's your proof it's working? In fact, isn't the proof rather that it has been a dismal failure?"

It not proof of anything. Without comprehensive sex ed the problems could have been much worse. Don't you think teenages should be educated about reproduction, contraception, and diseases?

Oh my god! Financial problems?

Does this mean that abortions really aren't funding PP as much as you think? That they're not majorly profiting off the death of little babies?

Could Jill have been wrong all along about this?

Oh my god! Financial problems?

Does this mean that abortions really aren't funding PP as much as you think? That they're not majorly profiting off the death of little babies?

Could Jill have been wrong all along about this?

Posted by: Edyt at March 27, 2008 1:19 PM
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Gee, d'yah think?!?

Apparently if a few clinics have a problem its "proof" of the shortcomings and inadequacies of ALL of Planned Parenthood. But having the RCC cover up for dozens if not hundreds of pedophile priests for decades doesnt say ANYTHING negative about The Roman Catholic Church and isnt 'proof' of any shortcomings or inadequacies in that organization.

Don't you think teenages should be educated about reproduction, contraception, and diseases?

Hal...they've only been taught to shoot first and ask questions later.

I just wanted to add in with this update, that if anyone was interested in the previous topic on the PPs and media coverages, check out a pro-lifer getting "pwned" by a journalist.

Game. Set. Match.

Where? I didn't see a thing.

Edyt, you still couldn't even answer a simple question on the other post.

Which simple question? I'm sorry, I will try to answer as many simpletons as possible. Please restate the question.

Ooops, I meant to say, simple question, rather than simpleton.

What a silly mistake!

Oops, I meant to say simple question, rather than simpleton.

What a silly mistake!

Edyting is not easy today, I guess.

Thanks, Jill, for the Planned Parenthood updates. These are useful for reminding reporters who they're interviewing opposite the prolifers.

Edyt, your screen name makes me think of the "Weird Al Yankovic" song "Eat it."

The emphasis in sex 'education' in schools has been on abstinence, not in contraception. Saaying 'just dont do it' doesnt work. If you have a 15 year old (for example) whose mother never married her father, and who has two older sisters and several cousins who all have babies and arent married then telling her 'dont have sex' isnt just useless - its laughable. Teaching kids about contraceptives is no more 'encouraging' them to have sex than telling them about the penalties of breaking the law is encouraging them to rob the local 7-11.

I am so thankful that sex education in my district is left up to parents and anything else is approved by us as well. In fact, today my son is having the "puberty talk." at school. :) He had that 3 years ago with Daddy.
In the safety, security and protection of a family that follows a moral code, abstinence makes total sense. My son agrees.

somebody best teach 'em about sex - they're almost all doin' it

Don't you think teenages should be educated about reproduction, contraception, and diseases?

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