STOPP
International's Ryan Report
SPECIAL ISSUE
2003
Summary and
analysis of
Planned Parenthood’s operations in the
U.S.
Contents:
1)
Introduction
2)
Abortion
3)
Planned Parenthood Financial Information
4)
Planned Parenthood Organization
5)
Planned Parenthood’s National Headquarters
6) Sex
Education and Other ‘Services’
7)
STOPP International's Plan for Defeating Planned
Parenthood
NOTE: A 30-page version of this report is available in PDF format. A condensed 12-page version is also available in PDF format.
This is the web
version of STOPP International’s 2003 Special Issue of the Ryan Report. Its purpose is to provide detailed
information about the very head of the Culture of Death in the U.S. – Planned
Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Each year, PPFA issues an annual report that summarizes its
activities in the United States and abroad. As a group that has been focusing on
understanding Planned Parenthood for over 18 years, STOPP International uses the
data in the latest PPFA Annual Report
and combines it with historical data to present an accurate picture of PPFA’s
programs and policies. In December
2002, PPFA made available to the public its 2001-2002 Annual Report. That report covers PPFA provided
services for the calendar year 2001 as well as financial data for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2001 and ending June 30, 2002.
This Special Issue of
the Ryan Report is packed with links
to data tables and charts created with information taken from PPFA’s own Annual Reports, Service Reports and IRS
Form 990’s. The charts are presented in PDF
format. The tables are
presented in both HTML and PDF formats.
To view a PDF file one needs a viewer such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have this program on your computer, visit www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to
download the free Acrobat Reader.
We encourage readers to share these charts and tables with others via
electronic or printed means. Copies
may be made and information may be publicly cited if attribution is given.
2)
Abortion
The number of innocent
babies Planned Parenthood kills every year via abortion procedures continues to
increase. PPFA reported that it
performed 213,026 abortion procedures in 2001. That represents an 8.1% increase over
the previous year. The state of New
York legalized surgical abortion on Sunday, July 1, 1970. On July 2, 1970, Planned Parenthood of
Syracuse, N.Y., opened the first freestanding abortion clinic in the
nation. While STOPP does not have
accurate numbers for Planned Parenthood abortions for the early years, STOPP
does have the numbers of abortions PPFA reported dating back to 1977. Since that time, PPFA has reported doing
3,019,559 abortions up to and including 2001. Remember that this figure does not
include pre-implantation abortions caused sometimes by the anti-implantation
effects of various birth control drugs and IUDs.
If we compare the 2001 PPFA abortion procedures to the
generally accepted figure of about 1.3 million abortions procedures per year in
the U.S., we can estimate that PPFA performed about 16% of all U.S. abortion
procedures in 2001. Planned
Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country, running about 160
abortion facilities nationwide. To
find out where PPFA abortion facilities are located, see “Where are Planned Parenthood's 160
abortion facilities?” Please view the chart, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America Abortions 1977 – 2001, which shows the annual number of PPFA
abortions.
Based upon an estimated average cost of $375 per abortion, STOPP
estimates that PPFA had a total income of $79,884,750 from abortion procedures
in 2001. STOPP has made a similar
estimate for each year 1977 – 2001 based upon the estimated average cost of an
abortion in each particular year.
Please view the results in the chart, Estimated Planned Parenthood
Abortion Income 1977 – 2001.
Adding up each year’s estimated abortion income from 1977 to 2001 gives a
total of about $894,000,000 of income from abortion during that period.
Please view the data table, Planned Parenthood Abortions and Estimated
Abortion Income 1977 – 2001 (PDF, HTML), which includes the
actual numbers used to create the previous PPFA abortion related charts. See also the chart, Percent of Total US Reported
Abortions Done by Planned Parenthood 1977 –2001, which shows how Planned Parenthood’s
percentage of total U.S. abortions has grown throughout those years (supporting
data table (PDF, HTML)).
For its 2001-2002 fiscal year, PPFA reported a total income of $692.5
million, which is an increase of about 3% over the previous year. Clinic income of $254.8 million
accounted for 36% of the total income, while government grants and contracts
($240.9 million) accounted for 35%, and private contributions ($190.9 million)
accounted for 28%. Since 1987, PPFA
has reported a total of $7,583,700,000 of income with $2,658,800,000 coming from
clinic income (35%), $2,454,900,000 coming from government grants and contracts
(32%), and 2,016,400,000 coming from private contributions (27%). Please view the following
charts:
Money
flows to PPFA from federal, state and local governments. To see a further breakdown of this total
one can view a detailed report from the United States General Accounting Office
(Nov. 13, 2001) which is at: www.gao.gov/new.items/d0281r.pdf.
This
GAO report states that in FY 2000, PPFA got $137,337,724 from the federal
government, up from $125,751,924 in FY 1999. PPFA’s fiscal year doesn’t match that of
the US government, which makes accurate comparisons difficult. However, the two fiscal years do overlap
by 9 months. If we divide $137.3
million by $187.3 million PPFA reported it got from government sources in its
1999-2000 fiscal year, we can estimate that PPFA gets about 73 percent of its
taxpayer funding from the federal government and the rest from state or local
governments.
In addition to the
money going to PPFA in FY 2000, the federal government gave International
Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) $15,768,328 and PPFA’s research arm, The
Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), $1,113,712. The GAO report also indicates what
federal programs are involved in such funding. In FY 2000, the federal domestic “family
planning” population control program (Title X), granted PPFA $54,578,663 and AGI
$526,584. PPFA also got $42,058,942
from Medicaid, $21,603,526 from social service block grants, $4,819,161 from
maternal and child health services block grants and $14,277,432 from other,
unspecified federal programs.
Private donations to PPFA in fiscal year 2001-2002 amounted to $190.9
million, which is a less than 1% increase over the previous year. For more details, please view the
following chart, Private Contributions (Including
Corporate) and Bequests to Planned Parenthood 1987 - June
2002.
STOPP often gets calls asking for a listing of companies to boycott
because they support Planned Parenthood.
Readers may obtain such information from the Saint Antoninus Institute Pro-Life
Shopping Guide and Companies Supporting Pro-abortion Organizations and from
Life Decisions
International.
More detailed information
about PPFA’s finances can be viewed in the following
tables:
Planned
Parenthood Clinic Income, Government Grants and Contracts,
Donations,
(This table includes a breakdown
of yearly expenses.)
Planned Parenthood continues to operate with a centralized headquarters
that coordinates independently incorporated affiliates across the United States.
Each of the affiliates operate a number of local facilities generally called
‘clinics.’ The main office is in New York City, with other offices in
Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Chicago.
PPFA has 126 independent affiliates plus a “special affiliate” – the Alan
Guttmacher Institute. This number is down significantly from the 181 independent
affiliates PPFA reported in 1987.
This 30% reduction in the number of affiliates has generally been driven
by a need to reduce expenses through eliminating duplicate management positions
and physical facilities.
For the third year in a row, PPFA reported having 875 clinics. This is well below the 938 clinics
it reported in 1995. Since this
number has remained unchanged for so long, STOPP tried to verify it through data
provided by each of the affiliates on their respective web sites or by
phone. After a thorough review in
2002, STOPP was able to identify only 846 Planned Parenthood clinics. If that, in fact, were the correct
number, it would represent the lowest number of active clinics since PPFA
reported having 850 in 1999.
Each year, STOPP creates a list of all the PPFA affiliates ranked by the
amount of income each generates. We
have done so again this year and have included a second version of the affiliate
information sorted by state so that readers can readily see the information
about all the Planned Parenthood affiliates in any particular state. Please view the following
tables.
The largest PPFA affiliate, based
upon income, is Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. (PPMM), headquartered in San
Jose, Calif. This affiliate has 34
clinics in California and Nevada.
PPMM’s IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001 indicates
that its total income was $50,822,598 (line 12), which included a profit of
$9,242,836 (line 18). In other
words, about 18 % of its income was profit! Incredibly, this affiliate stated
that it received $3,694,595 in government grants (line 1c). Now, why does the American taxpayer need
to give nearly $3.7 million to an organization that has a profit of over $9.2
million? Certainly, PPMM doesn’t
need the government grants. Even
without such grants PPMM would have still made a profit.
But there is more to this story.
If one looks at line 93 of the IRS Form 990, entitled, “Program service
revenue,” one is told to see an attached statement (14) that shows several
additional sources of income including the following:
Medi-Cal/Medicaid
$4,187,405
State and Local Govt Contribution
$1,113,512
Thus, even more government money flows to PPMM via various government
programs that apparently subsidize program services. With hefty government subsidized
profits, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that PPMM’s president and CEO, Linda
Williams, had compensation amounting to $200,625 with an additional $9,789
listed as contributions to benefit plans.
Readers are encouraged to perform a similar analysis on the tax forms of
their local Planned Parenthood affiliates and then publicize the results and
share them with elected representatives.
American taxpayers should not be forced to support an organization that
kills innocent human beings and perverts children. You can obtain these 990 IRS forms for
Planned Parenthood affiliates at www.guidestar.com for free
download. Pay particular attention
to lines 1c, 12, 18, 21, 93f and 93g.
5) Planned
Parenthood’s National Headquarters
PPFA
reported that its national organization (headquarters) had a total income of
$65.3 million in the 2001-2002 fiscal year. That figure is $12.7 million less than
the previous year. According to the
PPFA 2001-2002 Annual Report, the
national organization figures reflect the operations of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc., Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. (including its
Political Action Committee and other segregated fund, Planned Parenthood Votes)
and The Planned Parenthood Foundation.
Please view the graph, Reported Planned Parenthood National
Office Revenue 1987 - June 2002.
STOPP
found PPFA’s IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year 2000-2001 posted at www.guidestar.com. Therein was listed the following
information about how much several key national employees are
paid:
Gloria Feldt, President: Compensation = $356,300, Benefits =
$21,378, Expenses = $55,858
James Minow, VP Development:
Compensation = $220,480, Benefits = $13,229
Vanessa Cullins, VP Medical
Affairs: Compensation = $ 209,999
John Romo, Chief Operating
Officer: Compensation = $199,212,
Benefits = $11,953
Joan Coombs, VP Office of the President: Compensation =
$182,000, Benefits = $8,041
Dan Rutberg, VP Information &
Technology: Compensation = $173,888, Benefits = $10,433
Jeff Mechanick, VP Business Support Service: Compensation =
$161,961, Benefits =
$9,600
Mary Allie Stickney, VP
International Program: Compensation =
$160,000, Benefits = $9,300
6) Sex
Education and Other ‘Services’
Of course, the drop in sex-ed attendees is good news since
many of these attendees are children or teens. PPFA’s entire business rests upon sex
education. By teaching kids a
perverted philosophy of human sexuality, PPFA breaks down natural inhibitions,
which then leads to greater promiscuity.
As a result, PPFA then increases its customer base for artificial birth
control including abortion. A
long-term effect of such education is that it tends to create citizens who will
support Planned Parenthood’s agenda.
STOPP offers a 102-page book by its founder, Jim Sedlak,
which explains how parents can gain control of the school systems that educate
their children in order to eliminate perverting sex education programs. Entitled Parent Power, it is available for
free at www.all.org/stopp/pp15.htm or you can order a
printed copy by calling our resources department at
866-LET-LIVE.
But the good news above needs to be tempered by some very bad news. A few years ago PPFA opened up a new
front on its assault against children and parental authority – its website for
kids – teenwire.com. The utterly
disgusting nature of this web site is difficult to even talk about much less
describe in print. Now, parents
need to be vigilant about Planned Parenthood reaching their kids online, even in
the sanctuary of their own homes.
PPFA reported that, in 2002, teenwire.com received about 360,000
visits a month. That’s about
4,320,000 visits per year. Parents should consider blocking
software or a filtering service such as the one available at www.afafilter.com. Insist that your schools and public
libraries provide such protection as well.
For the fourth year in a row PPFA’s adoption referrals to other agencies
(Planned Parenthood is not an adoption agency) declined. In 2001, such referrals were down to
only 1,951. That’s a 79 % decrease
from what they were in 1997. Yet,
during the same time period, Planned Parenthood’s abortion procedures increased
29 %. In 2001, Planned Parenthood
aborted about 109 babies for every one adoption referral it made to an outside
agency (divide 213,026 by 1,951).
PPFA reported several other
services it performed for the 2,647,423 unduplicated clients it had in
2001. This information is posted,
along with similar information for the previous four years, in the following
table.
As that table shows, the single largest category of services at Planned
Parenthood is contraception. NOTE: Most of the so-called contraceptive methods
provided by Planned Parenthood, such as oral contraceptives, emergency
contraception (also called “the morning after pill”), contraceptive injectables,
contraceptive implants, and IUDs sometimes prevent the implantation in the
mother’s womb of a human being about 5 to 7 days old. This results in the death of a human
person. Pope John Paul II refers to such products as “abortifacients” in section
13 of his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae. Dr. Chris Kahlenborn explains the
abortifacient effects of some common types of contraception at www.ccli.org/contraception/Abortifacients.shtml. American Life League has a list of over
220 doctors that have signed a statement that the pill and emergency
contraception kill. The statement
is at www.all.org/news/declife.htm and the list of
those who signed it is at www.all.org/news/docsigs.htm.
PPFA
had 2,022,479 women clients for reversible contraception in 2001, an increase of
8.1 % from the previous year. In addition, PPFA had male contraceptive clients,
sterilization clients of both sexes, and huge increase in the number of
emergency contraception kits it distributed. Such kits numbered 458,892 in 2001,
a 248.6 % increase over the previous year. EC kits continue to be the fastest
growing part of PPFA’s business in recent years. Planned Parenthood listed the
following percentages for contraceptive methods chosen by its clients in
2001.
43 % Oral Contraceptives
17.9 % Emergency Contraception
11.6 % Contraceptive Injectables
11.6 % Non-Prescription Barrier
Methods
8.9 % No-Method
5.4 % Other/Unknown Methods
.7 % IUDs
.5 % Prescription Barrier Methods
.1 % Contraceptive Implants
.1 % Sterilization
.1 % Fertility Awareness-Based Methods
STOPP
subscribes to the truth that the sexual drive in human beings was created by God
to fulfill two interrelated purposes – to bring a close union between a married
man and woman engaging in intimate sexual behavior (the “unitive” purpose of
sex) and to provide a means to propagate the race (the “procreative” purpose of
sex). We further understand that,
to be true to the Natural Law that guides all human action, any act of sexual
intercourse must be done within marriage and be open to both the unitive and
procreative purposes. Thus, we
object to Planned Parenthood facilitating sexual intercourse outside of
marriage. We also object to Planned
Parenthood distributing products, such as those listed above, which artificially
attempt to render procreation impossible.
STOPP’s plan for
defeating Planned Parenthood is available at: www.all.org/stopp/plan.htm. It relies upon people opposing Planned
Parenthood in their own communities.
The STOPP plan is divided into sections:
This plan is based on
actual experience in fighting -- and defeating -- Planned Parenthood programs,
facilities and government funding via peaceful, prayerful, and legal means. In conjunction with local pro-lifers
throughout the country, STOPP has been at the forefront of such battles since
1985. These tactics are
proven. They work! There have been
some amazing victories, but we have a long way to go. With the help of STOPP’s plan, and
constant prayer, you should be able to shut down Planned Parenthood in your
community.
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information
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