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WASHINGTON, D.C. - "Planned
Parenthood must assume that elected officials can't
read a simple annual report," said American Life
League vice president Jim Sedlak. "While Planned
Parenthood is begging for increased government funding,
it's also admitting that it racked up record operating
profits in its most recent fiscal year."
Newly released data reveals that for
the 2004-2005 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood had a
record income of $882 million dollars and a profit of
$63 million, the second highest the organization has
ever reported in a single year. Planned Parenthood also
set new standards for the number of abortions in a single
year (255,015) and for its ratio of abortions to adoption
referrals (180 to 1).
"Planned Parenthood also set a
record for the amount of taxpayers'
money it received," said Sedlak, "with a total
of $272.7 million in government grants and contracts.
Since 1987, Planned Parenthood has now received a total
of $3.9 billion in taxpayers' money. During that time
it has surgically aborted more than 3.8 million babies
in the womb, and attacked the innocence of 24 million
young people through its sex education programs. Just
think of all the positive programs that could have benefited
from our tax dollars had they not been wasted on such
destructive efforts.
"It is absolutely incredible that,
in these days of natural disasters and homeland security
threats, our federal, state and local governments would
fund this controversial organization to the tune of
nearly $4 billion," said Sedlak. "Why is our
government so quick to finance such ruthless attacks
on our own innocent children?"
Earlier this year, American Life League
began an online petition campaign to end taxpayer funding
of Planned Parenthood through its www.StopPlannedParenthoodTaxFunding.com
web site. "Large numbers of Americans want this
taxpayer funding to stop," said Sedlak. "We
are confident this new financial report will generate
a grassroots groundswell for government to cut off the
ever-increasing flow of our dollars. America deserves
better."
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