American Cancer Society CMO claims Planned Parenthood has largest OB practice in U.S.
Pro-life stalwart Abby Johnson recently received a request from the American Cancer Society for a donation via snail mail.
Abby responded with a note explaining she would not give to ACS because 1) it had given money to Planned Parenthood in the past and never recanted; and 2) it refused to acknowledge the link between abortion and breast cancer.
Abby expected nothing to come from her response but was surprised to receive a letter from Dr. Otis W. Brawley (pictured right), ACS’s Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, Research and Cancer Control Science.
The surprise didn’t end there. In his letter, Dr. Brawley made the wild claim that “Planned Parenthood delivers more children than any other medical practice in the U.S.”
Read for yourself (click to enlarge)…
Dr. Brawley has obviously confused obstetrics with abortion. In actuality, Planned Parenthood is the United States’ largest abortion provider, not baby deliverer.
According to Planned Parenthood’s most recent Fact Sheet, it served 7,021 prenatal clients in 2009 while committing 332,278 abortions and making only 977 adoption referrals.
This means that 97.6% of pregnant mothers who come to Planned Parenthood get abortions, while only 2.1% get prenatal care and only .3% get adoption referrals.
According to Tair Sye, national spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Federation, only 63 of Planned Parenthood’s 800+ clinics, or 7.8%, offer prenatal services.
And providing “prenatal services” is not to say PP delivers babies. This could only be possible if a PP has 1) in-house physicians and/or midwives who are on 24 hour call; and 2) those physicians and/or midwives have hospital privileges.
So Dr. Brawley is vastly misinformed.
And now we see the American Cancer Society is vastly misinformed about Dr. Brawley’s claim. Pro-lifers complaining to ACS about Dr. Brawley’s whopper were told no such whopper had been made. Several pro-lifers received the same response, “To be clear, we have no record of ever making that statement and it is not our position.”
Here’s one email received (click to enlarge):
No surprise, Dr. Brawley leans left. He donated to Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008.
Perhaps that is why Brawley has served as a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee, which is also ironic, since the very Planned Parenthood Brawley defends increases the risk of breast cancer.
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.
He’s right. But all their babies are delivered DOA.
Exactly what I was thinking, Susie. PP will guarantee that you will deliver a dead baby.
I don’t understand, did a 18-year-old intern write the letter for him? How can such ignorance exist for a man of such apparent stature and intelligence? What???
Just FYI: You repeatedly call him “Dr. Crawley” even though his name is Dr. Brawley.
Think she is hinting at Aleister Crowley, although he was Pro-Life, which is surprising – Ozzie made a good song about him.
One of the largest portions of PP services is breast and cervical cancer screenings. Only 3% of the services PP renders every year is abortions… Also He is correct that prenatal stop smoking grants are used for exactly that which obviously promotes the health of the fetus and eventually the health of the baby once it has been born. They also have a prenatal anti-drinking program. Any PP in the country can refer a patient to a local Doula or Midwife. My local PP works with a midwife service right down the street from their office and in fact employed two doula’s in house. They offer every woman who walks in the door EVERY SINGLE OPTION and let the woman decide for herself. Whatever option she chooses PP will help her with that decision. Obviously they can help with abortion services but they can also refer women to organizations that they partner with to offer prenatal care and even adoption services.
Be honest for just one minute, you guys demonize PP because they promote things that your religious beliefs do not agree with such as unmarried sex, contraception, gay rights, and abortion. Luckily for the rest of us we are not subject to your own personal beliefs.
Thanks, Andrew. Fixed.
Sudden end to article?
“Planned Parenthood dismembers more children than any other medical practice in the U.S.”
Fixed that typo for you, Dr. Brawley.
Mr. Obama says “Doc Brawley probably didn’t get that medical degree.” Oh, and I guess both of these men think they are white, yellow or some other color, because PP sure loves to kill them some black babies. Dumbasses.
Obama says “Doc Brawley you didn’t earn that degree”. Both of these dudes must think they are white, red or yellow cause PP loves to kill them some black babies. SMH.
Wow, isn’t it amazing how Planned Parenthood, the mob in every neighborhood, effectively receives grants for the most diverse reasons imaginable…And we really believe they were using the money for helping patients that smoke, right????
Chris, ah, gee. Fixed.
This is one of those things that I exclaim “what the FUDGE?” (well, I used another word in my head)…Are they serious? Most babies delivered? How insane is that? What a slap in the face to all those who aborted their babies … if only! Planned Deathhood does not have smoking cessation classes in my neck of the woods … unbelievable.
the lies keep on coming.
Ha ha, Jill I thought you did that on purpose! I kept thinking “Creepy Dr. Crawley” lol.
Well, but a very STRANGE logic, I guess it is probably true that “Planned Parenthood” delivers more babies than any other OB practice in the US….
If they are providing prenatal care to over 7000 women per year, I would make the assumption that the Dr’s providing the care have hospital priviledges and are on call to attend births.
I would also make an assumption that there is no SINGLE OB practice in the US that attends that many births per year. In my area the “high volume” practices serve about 1000 births a year.
But it really is an unfair comparison, since it isn’t a SINGLE PP location providing the maternity care to 7000 women.
@KitW: I think I see where you’re going with this, but that wouldn’t be the PP delivering those babies, then, but the OBs. OBs who might happen to also work at PP some % of their time, but the time they would spend delivering live babies would be different from the time they spend killing unborn ones (oh my word, even typing this makes me feel awful). So it still wouldn’t count as PP delivering the babies since it isn’t happening on “company time.”
sounds like Live Action needs to make a few more phone calls and find out if any PP’s deliver babies.
Most reputable, competent obs won’t touch PP or any other abortuary for that matter they won’t even associate with the abortionists, who are considered the bottom of the food chain. Usually the “butchers” like Gosnell and Perdergast(sp?) or the young docs who PP sneak in from out of town do abortions so they can rake in the dough bigtime and quickly. Friends who have been pro-life counselors or part of prayer teams for many years tell me they do their “bloody” work to collect their “blood money” and get out of ”Dodge” as fast as they can.
I saw the letter and Abby’s concerns on Facebook. I certainly agree with Ms. Johnson that his comment was grossly inaccurate. I applaud Ms. Johnson for contacting ACS to get more clarification. However, I urge readers who dismiss ACS to reconsider. I am a staunch Catholic and prolife. I am also a two time survivor of breast cancer. I volunteer many hours with ACS. I used to do events with Komen, but I stopped when I found out its continuing financial support of Planned Parenthood.
I will continue to support the American Cancer Society with my time and my money for several reasons. First, any financial connection to Planned Parenthood has been severed, unlike Komen. Second, the program that was the subject of the grant (nonsmoking) has no connection to abortion or contraception. Komen’s grants were less specific and clearly changed the financial situation of Planned Parenthood. I cannot see Planned Parenthood funding additional abortions with smoking cessation funds. There is truly no nexus here.
May I rephrase the issue? The question is how to best neutralize the propaganda produced by Planned Parenthood. One important step is to do what we can to prevent Planned Parenthood from being the “go – to” location for women’s health. The best way to do that is to create an alternative that really is designed to deliver good health care to women — including mammograms and smoking cessation programs — regardless of income or documented status. Let’s work as a society and church to find a better way so women do not believe they must walk in the door of an abortion clinic to find medical assistance. Why not investigate the alternatives in your own town and city and make sure women know where they can go for good care? Often these health providers are charities. Perhaps you could volunteer or put up fliers notifying women of their services, so more women would know where to go.
Another important step is to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their words and actions. The recent publicity regarding the financial connection to Komen is a good example. Counter lies and mischaracterizations with truth. Abby Johnson’s book, of course, is the preeminent example of this. Continue to pass copies to friends and stock local libraries.
If you know of a community that is underserved, get a group of concerned citizens together and begin a movement to get good medical care that does not provide abortions into the area. Contact hospitals, medical schools, and nursing schools. They may have graduate students who need experience in primary care but they may not have a physical facility or understand the need. Where can women go who need mammograms at little or no cost? Find out.
Finally, I urge you to consider supporting the American Cancer Society with your time and money. ACS provides services to patients of all cancers. ACS also is the largest funder of cancer research in the nation after the federal government. For women who find themselves alone, broke, confused, overwhelmed, and even ashamed of their diagnosis, ACS is a vital resource.
It is because I value human life that I support ACS.
Thank you, Abby, for pressing ACS for information about this. You continue to be a untiring advocate for the unborn. You have my gratitude for your vigilence and courage.
Rita S.
Relay for Life volunteer
Sorry, but one commentor above believes the 3% LIE. THIS is the truth:
Planned Parenthood’s numbers of prenatal clients and adoption referrals have gone down over the past three years (36% for the former and a staggering 80% for the latter),and their abortion numbers have gone up by 9% — and thus, their percentage of abortions as services to pregnant women has also gone up:
It’s also interesting to look at how Planned Parenthood’s numbers from 2009 compare to 2007 [PDF] and 2008 [PDF].
Here are their numbers of prenatal clients:
2007: 10,914
2008: 9,433
2009: 7,021
Here are their numbers of adoptions referrals:
2007: 4,912
2008: 2,405
2009: 977
And here are their abortion numbers:
2007: 305,310
2008: 324,008
2009: 332,278
So as Planned Parenthood’s numbers of prenatal clients and adoption referrals have gone down over the past three years (36% for the former and a staggering 80% for the latter), their abortion numbers have gone up by 9% — and thus, their percentage of abortions as services to pregnant women has also gone up:
2007: 95.1%
2008: 96.5%
2009: 97.6%
These figures speak for themselves. When it comes to “services” to pregnant women, Planned Parenthood’s first priority is none other than abortion.
Looking at a Planned Parenthood fact sheet [PDF] detailing their services for 2009 (the most recent year for which data are available), we see that PP’s abortion numbers were 332,278, while their number of adoption referrals was 977.
That’s one adoption referral for every 340 aborted babies. And if you add the abortion and adoption numbers together, their abortion numbers account for 99.7%, and their adoption numbers for 0.3%.
Planned Parenthood’s figures show they had 7,021 prenatal clients in 2009. It’s this number plus the 977 adoption referrals plus the 332,278 abortions that gives you the total number of services to pregnant women, of which abortions constitute 97.6%, which rounds up to 98%.
Fact sheet
http://www.nrlc.org/factsheets/PPAbortion.pdf
By bundling services when it serves your purpose, and unbundling when it makes you look better. It arrives at this 3% figure by using some very strained mathematics, by counting everything given to, or done for, a given patient as a separate service. So if a young mom comes into a Planned Parenthood clinic for an abortion, she’ll probably also have a pregnancy test, maybe a test for an STD, and then may receive a packet of birth control pills after her abortion. So, is that one “service” or four? Planned Parenthood counts each of these as a separate service.
PPFA offers the “3% of services” mantra day in and day out. It is accepted uncritically by the media. The figure is purposefully confusing. A much more understandable—and accurate—measure is to look at the numbers of clients, rather than the number of “services.” That tells a very different story.
You virtually never read that the percentage of PPFA’s clients that receive abortions is 12%. That is important not only because it reveals its enormous investment in abortion, but also because abortions generate a hefty share of clinic revenue.
That means that nearly one in eight women walking through the door of a Planned Parenthood clinic receiving services has an abortion?
On the PPFA Services fact sheet, Planned Parenthood says it provided services for three million people in 2009. That would mean roughly a third were tested for pregnancy. Considering how a woman can buy a relatively inexpensive pregnancy test from her local drug or grocery store, she must have had a reason to seek out Planned Parenthood. If the availability of abortion was the reason, that would mean that abortion was pulling in even more than the 12%.
To see how significant abortion is to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line, there is no equivalency between a $15 pregnancy test or a $6 pack of condoms or $15–$50 packet of birth control pills and an abortion which runs $350–$950 for a first-trimester abortion [see http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/abortion/in-clinic-abortion-procedures-4359.asp].
Here’s some very basic math. At $451 (the Guttmacher Institute’s estimated average cost for a standard first-trimester surgical abortion), the 332,278 abortions Planned Parenthood performed in 2009 would represent $149.9 million—37% of the $404.9 million in clinic revenues PPFA took in for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009 [see PPFA 2008–09 Annual Report at http://www.plannedparenthood.org].
That’s a far cry from the 3% touted by PP.
Speaking in terms of Planned Parenthood’s “profits” instead of “revenues.” Another is to confuse its clinic or “health center income” with the total revenues of the organization. Planned Parenthood had total revenues of $1.1 billion in FY 2009, but only 37% of that came from clinic income. It got another $363.3 million in “government grants and contracts” and private contributions totaling $308.2 million, and another $24.5 million from other sources.
In looking at PP services intrinsically connected to pregnancy—abortion, prenatal care, and adoption—97.6% of those were abortion.
The revenue Planned Parenthood receives in “Government Grants & Contracts” has gone from $165 million in 1998 to $363.3 million in the organization’s fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. During the same time, and at roughly the same rate, abortions have more than doubled at Planned Parenthood, from 165,509 in 1998 to 332,278 in 2009. All this while abortions in the U.S., as a whole, dropped by about 25%. To say that Planned Parenthood is committed to reducing abortions is to go against decades of evidence that shows the exact opposite.
Any relation to Tawana Brawley?
Rats! You guys beat me to the punch! I was gonna say, “Yeah, they’re delivered, but in what condition….and in how many pieces?”
Abby Johnson would know, as she once worked for Plan(No)Parenthood. Gotta wonder where the American Cancer Society is getting its info! OR, do they fear a drop in funding if it’s learned that they want to help one group of people while killing another. I mean, where DO cancer patients come from? The same place we all came from!
I like what Ronald Regan said, “It’s interesting how those who are in favor of Abortion are already born.”