What Lies Beneath

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What Lies Beneath

• Understanding Planned Parenthood

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Planned Parenthood's History

• Founded as single birth control clinic in 1916 by
  Margaret Sanger
• Initial focus was birth control
• Changed name to Planned Parenthood Federation of
  America (PPFA) in 1942
• Opened first abortion clinic in Syracuse, New
  York in 1970
• Largest provider of abortion in America today

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Who was Margaret Sanger?

• Born Margaret Higgins in New York
• Lived 1879-1966
• Focused on birth control and sexual liberation
• Supported eugenics
• Was Sanger racist?
• Does Planned Parenthood own up to its own
  parentage?

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PPFA by the numbers

• 333,964 abortions performed in 2011, up from
  165,174 in 1997
• 2,300 adoption referrals in 2011, down from 9,381
  in 1997
• Performs 145 abortions for every adoption
  referral.
• Almost 800 health centers in U.S.

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Your financial support of PPFA

• 1.2 billion dollars of revenue in 2011-2012
• Received more than 542 million from taxpayers in
  2011-2012
• Excess of revenue over expenses (profit) of
  87.4 million in 2011-2012
• 51 million spent on public policy and other in
  2011-2012

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PPFA's abortion advocacy

• Active lobbying at local, state and federal level
• Opposes laws that regulate abortion clinics,
  informed consent provisions, parental consent for
  minors seeking abortions, partial-birth abortion
  bans, sex-selection abortion bans and laws
  protecting the conscience rights of health care
  workers
• Supports taxpayer-funded abortions

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Majoring in minorities

• Eugenic legacy
• Explicitly identified core clients as young
  women, low income women, and women of color
  (Plan of Action, 1997)
• Minorities are 37 of U.S. population but have
  64 of abortions according to Guttmacher Institute

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Misguiding teens

• www.plannedparenthood.org/info-for-teens
• Schools and community organizations
• The program reaches out through more than 150
  local community partners that do not
  traditionally work with Planned Parenthood,
  including public libraries, prominent medical
  institutions, and faith organizations. (Annual
  Report 2007-2008)
• Undercover exposé of attitude towards rape
• www.liveaction.org

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Active in religious communities

• Clergy Advisory Board Pro Choice Religious
  Network
• The CAB consists of religious leaders and
  ministers
• Counseling women and supporting abortions
• Supports partial-birth abortions
• Opposes conscience clauses, parental notification
  laws and 'so-called' Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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Planned Parenthood in Michigan

• Two affiliates
• Planned Parenthood of West and Northern Michigan
• Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan (merged
  with South Central Michigan in 2011)
• 20 offices across the state
• Ann Arbor, Detroit, Flint and Kalamazoo clinics
  perform abortions, the rest refer to other
  abortion clinics

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What can I do?

• Educate, Educate, Educate
• Think globally, act locally
• Right to Life of Michigan's handout with
  strategies for opposing local Planned Parenthood
  centers

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Available materials

• Getting Planned Parenthood out of Michigan!
• Plan for helping groups to end Planned
  Parenthood's influence
• Providing Promoting Abortion flyer
• Other prolife brochures, research and materials
• List of RLM Education Centers at www.rtl.org

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Additional reading

• Books about Planned Parenthood
• Bad Choices, by Douglas R. Scott
• Blessed are the Barren, by Robert Marshall and
  Charles Donovan
• Grand Illusions, by George Grant
• Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy, by Angela
  Franks
• Unplanned, by Abby Johnson

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www.rtl.org