Over 10,000 more abortions: New Abortion Record at Planned Parenthood in 2004.

The full annual report isn't out yet, but an online service report indicates that over a quarter of a million abortions were performed at Planned Parenthood clinics in 2004, a new record for the organization.

According to the service report, available at http://www. plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/medicalinfo/birthcontrol/fact-pp-services-2003.xml, affiliate clinics of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) performed 255,015 abortions in 2004. This represents an increase of over 10,000 abortions from last year's total and makes Planned Parenthood responsible for about one out of every five abortions done in the United States.

By contrast, Planned Parenthood offered prenatal services to just 17,610 clients, or about one for every 14 abortions it performed. Only 1,414 clients of Planned Parenthood's clients were referred for adoptions. Planned Parenthood's adoption referrals were outnumbered by its abortion patients by a 180 to 1 margin.

According to the online report, PPFA's 122 affiliates and more than 850 "health centers" saw only 386 infertility patients, or less than one for every two clinics. This made clear once again that Planned Parenthood's plans don't typically involve parenthood.

Planned Parenthood doesn't offer an economic or racial demographic of its abortion patients, but it does say that "Nearly 74 percent of our clients have incomes at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level."

According to the service report, plannedparenthood.org, the organization's web site, logged nearly one million visits a month in 2004. Its web site for teens, teenwire.org, ran close behind with about 800,000 visits a month. The teenwire site also received and responded to more than 500 personal inquiries a week (if questions on the web site are representative, dealing with different aspects of abortion, sexuality, etc.).

Both sites tell women how to find and contact Planned Parenthood clinics in their area. In the past, teenwire has told teens in states with parental involvement laws how they can utilize bypass procedures to avoid telling parents about their abortions.