THE RYAN REPORT

1) Introduction

This is STOPP International’s 2004 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). Please forward it far and wide.

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 19 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 2003, PPFA made available to the public its 2002-2003 Annual Report. That report covers PPFA provided services for the calendar year 2002 as well as financial data for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002 and ending June 30, 2003.

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, 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 227,375 abortion procedures in 2002. That represents a 6.7% 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 3,246,934 abortions up to and including 2002. 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 2002 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 17.5% of all U.S. abortion procedures in 2002. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country, running about 190 abortion facilities nationwide. Please view the chart, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Abortions 1977 – 2002, which shows the annual number of PPFA abortions. See also the chart, Percent of Total US Reported Abortions Done by Planned Parenthood 1977–2002 that shows how Planned Parenthood’s percentage of total U.S. abortions has grown throughout those years.

Based upon an estimated average cost of $400 per abortion, STOPP estimates that PPFA had a total income of $90,950,000 from abortion procedures in 2002. STOPP has made a yearly estimate of PPFA’s abortion income for each year 1977 – 2002 based upon an estimated average cost of an abortion in each particular year. Please view the results in the chart, Estimated Planned Parenthood Abortion Income 1977 – 2002. Adding up each year’s estimated abortion income from 1977 to 2002 gives a total of about $985,000,000 of income from abortion during that period.

Please view the data table, Planned Parenthood Abortions, Estimated Abortion Income, Percent of US Abortions 1977 – 2002, which includes the actual numbers used to create the previous PPFA abortion related charts. There is a PDF version and an HTML version.

3) Planned Parenthood Financial Information

For its 2002-2003 fiscal year, PPFA reported a total income of $766.6 million, which is an increase of 10.7 % over the previous year. Clinic income of $288.2 million accounted for 36% of the total income, while government grants and contracts ($254.4 million) accounted for 33%, and private contributions ($228.1 million) accounted for 30%. PPFA listed end of the year net assets of $688.0 million. Since 1987, PPFA has reported a total of $8,350,300,000 of income with $2,947,000,000 coming from clinic income (36%), $2,709,300,000 coming from government grants and contracts (32%), and 2,244,500,000 coming from private contributions (27%). Please view the following charts:

Sources of Planned Parenthood Income 1987 - June 2003
Annual Sources of Planned Parenthood Income 1987 - June 2003

Planned Parenthood profits

PPFA has made a profit every year since at least 1987. The total profit since that year is $502,800,000. There may well be more profits from previous years, but this figure is based upon the unbroken series of PPFA financial reports currently in STOPP’s possession that dates back to 1987. The reported PPFA profit for fiscal year 2002-2003 was $36.6 million, which is $24.4 million more profit than PPFA made the previous year. That is a 200% increase in profit in just one year. Please view the following chart for more detail: Planned Parenthood Annual Profits 1987 - June 2003.

Tax dollars for Planned Parenthood

If you are wondering how PPFA can manage to make a profit year after year, you should consider how the American taxpayer is helping PPFA sustain itself. Total tax dollars to PPFA increased 5.6 % from $240.9 million in PPFA’s 2001-2002 fiscal year to $254.4 million in PPFA’s 2002-2003 fiscal year. Please view the chart, Taxpayer Money to Planned Parenthood 1987 - June 2003, which shows that PPFA received $2,709,300,000 via government grants and contracts during that period.

Money flows to PPFA from federal, state and local governments. On May 16, 2003 the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) released a study detailing fiscal year 2001 federally funded expenditures of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, its special affiliate The Alan Guttmacher Institute, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Readers are encouraged to review this study in detail to see not only how much money is going to PP, but also exactly which programs are funding it.

STOPP urges readers to make use of the study by contacting their federal representatives to complain about federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Please urge your federal representatives to take action to eliminate this funding immediately. An excellent bill that will cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood is H.R. 1548, which can be found on the Library of Congress site. Complaints can be lodged with any state or local government that funds Planned Parenthood as well. STOPP has a plan to defeat local funding of PP.

Private donations to Planned Parenthood

Private donations to PPFA in fiscal year 2002-2003 amounted to $228.1 million, which is a 19.5% increase over the previous year. For more details, please view the following chart, Private Contributions (Including Corporate) and Bequests to Planned Parenthood 1987 - June 2003.

STOPP often gets calls asking for a listing of companies to boycott because they support Planned Parenthood. Readers may obtain such information from Life Decisions International at www.fightpp.org.

More financial data

More detailed information about PPFA’s finances can be viewed in the following tables:

Planned Parenthood Clinic Income, Government Grants and Contracts, Donations, Total Income, and Profit 1987 - FY 2003

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Detailed Statistics of Planned Parenthood's last 5 years (This table includes a breakdown of yearly expenses.)

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4) Planned Parenthood Organization

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 125 independent affiliates plus a “special affiliate” – the Alan Guttmacher Institute. PPFA operates 866 clinics nationwide and claims to have nearly 21,000 affiliate volunteers and staff and 700,000 active individual financial contributors.

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.

Planned Parenthood Affiliate Income, Profit, Assets Sorted by Income

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Planned Parenthood Affiliate Income, Profit, Assets Sorted by State

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Readers are encouraged to perform an 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 from Guidestar 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 $85.0 million in the 2002-2003 fiscal year. That figure is $19.7 million more than the previous year, a 30% increase. According to the PPFA 2002-2003 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 2003.

PPFA’s IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year 2002-2003 is posted on a PPFA web page. Therein was listed the following information about how much several key national employees are paid:

Gloria Feldt, President: Compensation = $363,426, Benefits = $16,362, Expenses & Other = $80,489
Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Compensation = $18,171

Vanessa Cullins, VP Medical Affairs: Compensation = $214,200, Benefits = $11,005

George Stokes, Chief Operating Officer: Compensation = $200,000, Benefits = $4,846

Joan Coombs, Chief Campaign Officer: Compensation = $185,640, Benefits = $11,120

Russell Lefevre, Chief Strategic Officer: Compensation = $179,230, Benefits = $10,370

Dan Rutberg, VP Information & Technology: Compensation = $177,366, Benefits = $9,524

Jeff Mechanick, Chief Financial Officer: Compensation = $172,152, Benefits = $9,339

Suellen Craig, VP Executive Office: Compensation = $177,028, Benefits = $9,092

6) Sex Education and Other ‘Services’

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.

Please view the chart, Planned Parenthood Expenditures For Community/Public Sex Education and Number of Sex Education Attendees. It shows that sex education attendees increased 40% from 1 million in 2001 to 1.4 million in 2002.

STOPP supporters are strongly urged to vigorously fight this root of Planned Parenthood’s business. 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 free online, or you can order a printed copy by calling our resources department at 866-LET-LIVE.

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. In its 2002 – 2003 Annual Report, PPFA said teenwire.com received about 400,000 visits a month. That’s about 4.8 million visits per year. Parents should consider blocking software or a filtering service such as the one available from the American Family Association. Insist that your schools and public libraries provide such protection as well.

Adoptions referrals far less than abortions

PPFA’s adoption referrals to other agencies (Planned Parenthood is not an adoption agency) in 2002 were only 1,963. That’s a 79% decrease from the 9,381 such referrals in 1997. Yet, during the same time period, Planned Parenthood’s abortion procedures increased 37.7%. In 2002, Planned Parenthood aborted about 115 babies for every one adoption referral it made to an outside agency (divide 227,375 by 1,963).

Other ‘services’

PPFA reported several other services it performed for the 2,744,554 unduplicated clients it had in 2002. This information is posted, along with similar information for the previous four years, in the following table.

Detailed Statistics of Planned Parenthood's last 5 years

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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. 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 online, as is the list of those who signed it.

PPFA had 2,208,483 women clients for reversible contraception in 2002, an increase of 9.2% 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 633,756 in 2002, a 35.0% increase over the previous year. EC kits have been the fastest growing part of PPFA’s business in recent years. Planned Parenthood listed the following percentages for reversible contraceptive methods chosen by its clients in 2002.

50.5% Oral
17.0% Non-prescription Barrier
13.2% Progestin-only Injectables
9.5% No method
6.5% Other/Unknown
1.1% Combined Hormone Injectables
0.9% IUDs
0.4% Prescription Barrier
0.3% Combined Hormone Patch
0.2% Fertility Awareness-based Methods
0.1% Combined Hormone Ring
0.1% Implants

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.

7) STOPP International's Plan for Defeating Planned Parenthood

STOPP’s plan for defeating Planned Parenthood is available online. It relies upon people opposing Planned Parenthood in their own communities. The STOPP plan is divided into sections:

Defeating Planned Parenthood's plans for your community
Defeating Planned Parenthood sex education programs
Defeating government funding of Planned Parenthood
Successful battles against Planned Parenthood

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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