THE WEDNESDAY STOPP REPORT

Planned Parenthood releases new U.S. numbers

Within the last few days, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has released its so-called service numbers for the year 2005. The numbers bring more bad news as Planned Parenthood continues to kill more innocent human beings every year.

Planned Parenthood kills record number of babies

According to the data released by Planned Parenthood, it admits to committing 264,943 abortions in 2005—the most babies it has ever killed in a single year.

Adding this new death toll to those previously reported by Planned Parenthood, the organization now admits to the deaths of 4,068,749 babies in the womb since July 2, 1970—the day Planned Parenthood opened the first free-standing abortion facility in the country and did its first abortions.

Although it took Planned Parenthood 35 years to kill its first four million babies in the United States, at its current rate of doing abortion, it could kill another four million in less than 15 years. Currently the organization has devolved into an efficient killing machine, one that survives because elected officials and private citizens allow it to exist. It is time that we all took every peaceful and lawful action we can to shut down these purveyors of death.

Planned Parenthood’s actual numbers

Presented below are the actual numbers released this week by Planned Parenthood. Please note that it did not release any referral numbers. Therefore, we will not know the number of adoption referrals until the full annual report is released in the next month or two.

2005 Affiliate Medical Services Summary

Contraception
Reversible Contraceptive Clients, Women	2,399,671
Emergency Contraception Kits	1,245,506
Tubal Sterilization Clients	554
Reversible Contraceptive Clients, Men	80,411
Vasectomy Clients	2,407
Subtotal	3,728,549

STI/STD Testing and Treatment
STI Procedures, Women and Men	2,610,069
HIV Testing Clients, Women	188,424
HIV Testing Clients, Men	62,300
HIV Testing Clients, Gender Not Reported	29,865
Subtotal	2,890,658

Cancer Screening and Prevention
Pap Tests	1,116,681
Breast Exams/ Breast Care	844,201
Colposcopy Procedures	44,353
LEEP Procedures	2,836
Cryotherapy Procedures	3,566
Subtotal	2,011,637

Other Women's Health Services
Pregnancy Tests	1,040,803
Prenatal Clients	12,548
Midlife Clients	14,163
Infertility Clients	248
Subtotal	1,067,762

Abortions
Abortion Procedures	264,943

Other Services
Primary Care Clients, Women and Men	21,739
Other Services, Women and Men	127,354
Subtotal	149,093

Total Services	10,112,642
Total Unduplicated Clients	3,051,144

You can read the full report from Planned Parenthood online.

Planned Parenthood also updated its “Planned Parenthood by the numbers” web page.

Planned Parenthood’s educational activities

Planned Parenthood’s data clearly shows its emphasis on young people. Among the educational highlights it chose to list are:

Nearly 2,200 affiliate staff and volunteer educators provided educational programs to 1.3 million people of all ages—from preschools to universities, from prisons and social service programs to religious institutions and civic organizations (emphasis added).

Numerous training programs were provided to more than 73,000 professionals who work with children, teens, and young adults.

3,000 teen advocates, peer educators, and teen theater performers carry Planned Parenthood's prevention messages to their communities

Planned Parenthood’s birth control sales

The following is a list of the types of birth control Planned Parenthood sells and how many of each type:

• 1,072,653 doses of oral contraception
• 434,340 doses of non-prescription barrier
• 225,569 doses of progestin-only injectables
• 163,178 doses of combined hormone patch
• 81,589 doses of combined hormone ring
• 26,396 IUDs
• 4,799 doses of prescription barrier
• 139,181 other forms of contraception

Planned Parenthood’s selected significant changes

In reviewing the Planned Parenthood service data as compared with last year, we note the following changes:

• 261,969 more doses of "emergency contraception”
• 41% EC sales for unduplicated clients compared to 33% last year (27% and 23% the previous years) so the number of PP customers who just buy EC from the organization continues to rise
• 33% of total contraceptive sales was EC last year whereas it was 29% the year before
• 52,319 more doses of female contraceptives than the previous year
• 82,562 fewer breast cancer screenings than the previous year
• 5,062 fewer instances of prenatal care given
• 32,925 fewer pregnancy tests
• 35% fewer infertility clients
• 7,630 fewer primary care clients

A ray of hope

It is very difficult to find anything positive in a report that admits to the deaths of more than 264,000 babies in a single year. However, there is something buried in all the numbers and verbiage that gives a ray of hope.

It appears that Planned Parenthood is beginning to lose its hold on young people.

In this report, Planned Parenthood says that teenagers receive 25% of its services. In previous reports, Planned Parenthood has claimed that number to be as high as 26.7%. This drop in percentage may be because Planned Parenthood is putting a tremendous emphasis on so-called Emergency Contraception or it may represent a drop in youth clients. We will continue to watch this development.

In an even more telling trend, Planned Parenthood reported 600,000 visits per month to its teen web site in 2005. In 2004, it reported 800,000 visits per month. This, again, is a trend that offers some hope for the future.

Prayer and action needed

As we digest these new numbers from Planned Parenthood, we need to offer prayers for all those victims of Planned Parenthood and for the staff and volunteers at the organization. Please pray that God will open their eyes to the evil that they are doing and grant them the courage to change.

We also call on all those opposed to Planned Parenthood to increase efforts against the organization. We must, in a peaceful, prayerful way, educate our communities on Planned Parenthood and the death it brings to body and soul.

Use the numbers reported here to let everyone know the horror of an organization that has already killed four million babies and will kill another four million within the next 15 years, unless it is STOPPed.

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