Details from Planned Parenthood's Latest Annual Report Telling Stories about Abortion.

While, thankfully, the number of abortions has been steadily declining in the U.S., business is thriving at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's largest abortion chain. At Planned Parenthood, a steadily increasing market share is the norm and ensuring and expanding "access to abortion services" is a top goal.

In the past decade the number of abortions in America has dropped sharply - - by some 17% - - to 1.3 million annually. By contrast, PPFA performed 182,854 abortions in 1999, an increase of 8% over 1998, which would be its highest total ever. Just one look at the annual report tells the reader that abortion is a large tributary of Planned Parenthood's financial stream.

In its 1999-2000 Annual Report, "Behind Every Choice Is a Story," we learn that Planned Parenthood brought in $627.2 million for the fiscal year that ended in June 2000.

"Clinic Income" is the biggest source of revenue, at $222.2 million. Abortion was by far Planned Parenthood's most common "surgical procedure," adding at least $54 million1 to PPFA's coffers - - thus accounting for nearly one-quarter (at a minimum) of PPFA's clinic income. [This is a very conservative figure, based on an average cost of $296 for first-trimester abortions only. We know PPFA clinics do later, more expensive abortions, but those figures are not readily available.]

As we have known for years, the government likes to send huge sums of money to PPFA. Planned Parenthood received $187.3 million, nearly a third (30%) of its income, from "Government Grants and Contracts" in 1999. Those are dollars from taxpayer's pockets that go to support various activities and aspects of Planned Parenthood's agenda. Planned Parenthood actually received slightly more from government sources than it did from "Private Contributions and Bequests" - - $174.9 million for the 1999-2000 fiscal year.

Planned Parenthood would have you believe it offers a wide array of medical services. Yet in 1999, it saw only about one-tenth as many prenatal clients (19,281) as abortion "patients," and made only 2,999 adoption referrals.

Planned Parenthood also saw only 516 infertility patients in 1999, or less than one infertility patient per clinic. Put another way, PPFA sold 354 abortions for every client to whom it gave infertility services. These gigantic disparities proved once again that Planned Parenthood's plans don't typically involve parenthood.