Planned Parenthood exposed: Report shows why oft-mentioned 4% stat is misleading
Although the number of yearly abortions in the U.S. appears to be declining, Planned Parenthood reached an all-time high in the 2018 fiscal year and performed 345,672 abortions, nearly 13,000 more than the year before.
Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading abortion provider, but its most recent annual report claims abortions were only 4 percent of the 9.8 million "medical services" provided in 2018 -- services which also included testing for sexually transmitted infections, screening for cancer, administering pregnancy tests and more.
"Planned Parenthood arrives at this false statistic by dividing the number of children it aborted (345,672) for the year by the number of 'services' the group provided (9.8 million)," Liberty Counsel said in a news release.
"This means when a woman visits a Planned Parenthood facility to obtain an abortion, she is also given a pregnancy test, an STI test, a...
Dr. Mark Allison | 1/20/2013
