WASHINGTON, June 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- Annual reports of Planned Parenthood Federation of America reveal an organization that is getting rich off abortions, said Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, who noted that “abortion is the heart of its so-called ‘service’ to women.”

Last week, Life News released the following:

* Planned Parenthood (PP), supposedly a non-profit organization, made a profit of $63 million last year.

* Planned Parenthood has net assets of more than $784 million. All that money is drawing interest and making more profit for Planned Parenthood.

* While depicting itself as a benign health service for women, Planned Parenthood conducted 20 percent of the nation’s abortions –– over 255,000 abortions in 2004 (up 4.3 percent over 2003).

* While claiming to be pro-adoption, Planned Parenthood referred only slightly more than 1,400 customers to adoption agencies (down 20 percent from 2003).

* Nearly one third ($272.7 million) of Planned Parenthood’s income comes from taxpayers. That’s four times the amount given to abstinence programs.

* Planned Parenthood sold nearly one million (up over 21 percent over 2004) “emergency” birth control kits in 2004 (these include the morning after pill –– Plan B).

“Planned Parenthood continues to be the nation’s primary abortion provider,” Dr. Crouse said. “Few people stop to look at the facts and realize that Planned Parenthood is, primarily, an abortion provider. Abortion is where its profit lies and abortion is the heart of its so-called ‘service’ to women.”

Crouse continued, “Planned Parenthood presents itself as a service organization meeting the needs of women. It has become entrenched in communities as one of the nation’s top charities. It is regularly honored by legislatures and public servants for community service. For many people, Planned Parenthood is very respectable. Some of those folks would be horrified to realize that abortion is Planned Parenthood’s main mission. It’s time the nation woke up to realize that our tax dollars and corporate grants are underwriting a very profitable, immoral business – Planned Parenthood’s abortion industry.”

For more about this research, see LifeNews.com, Stephen Ertelt, editor.

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