Planned Parenthood loses clinics, private support;
depends on more abortion dollars to pay the bills

"Increases in abortions, more money from taxpayers' pockets, and bigger profit margins - all while clinics are closing down and donations are dwindling. That is the state of Planned Parenthood," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International, in response to the release of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's 2003-2004 Annual Report.

STOPP International, which has monitored Planned Parenthood's operations for 20 years, provided its exclusive analysis of the latest report and put it in historical perspective. Sedlak pointed out the following facts and trends about Planned Parenthood in the last year:

• Planned Parenthood increased the numbers of surgical abortions at its own facilities by 6.1% to 244,628. This means Planned Parenthood has surgically killed 3.5 million babies since 1970.
• Planned Parenthood took in an estimated $104 million from its surgical abortion business, accounting for over one-third of its $302.6 million clinic income.
• Planned Parenthood aborted 138 children for every adoption referral to an outside agency. During Gloria Feldt's first full year as president of PPFA (1997), the group's abortion/adoption ratio was 18:1. Under Feldt, abortions have consistently increased and adoption referrals have decreased.
• Even after 18-year-old Holly Patterson was killed by complications from an RU-486 abortion at Planned Parenthood, the organization sold the dangerous abortion pill over 95,000 times at 203 of its clinics, including 49 that began selling the pill last year though they do not do surgical abortions.
• Elected officials gave PPFA a record $265.2 million, nearly 33% of its $810 million total income.
• For the 18th year in a row, Planned Parenthood turned a net profit. This year's $35.2 million brings its total profits over the 18 years to $538 million.
• The number of Planned Parenthood clinics declined from 866 clinics to 849 in the last year. Since Planned Parenthood's heyday in 1995, when it operated 938 clinics, it has closed a net of 89 clinics.
• Private donations to Planned Parenthood declined for the second time in three years, as contributions and bequests dropped 17% to $191 million, and the income of its national headquarters dropped by 19.8%.