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Lila Rose Pushes Falsehood That Abortion Is How Indiana Planned Parenthood "Makes Money"

June 30, 2011 1:13 am ET — 8 Comments

Appearing on Fox News to push her most recent attack on Planned Parenthood, Lila Rose claimed that abortions are how Planned Parenthood of Indiana "makes money." In fact, abortions account for only an estimated 16 percent of its total annual revenue in 2010.

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Rose Claims Indiana's Planned Parenthood Relies On Abortions To Generate Its Revenue

Rose: Abortions Are "How [Planned Parenthood] Makes Money" In Indiana. From Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

LILA ROSE: I think a fundamental point here is the fact that the state of Indiana told Planned Parenthood, if you suspend your abortion practices -- they do over 50 percent of abortions in Indiana, this is how they make money -- if you suspend those practices, you can receive as much Medicaid money as you want. But they refused. They are using Medicaid services, serving less than one percent of women of Indiana as a front for an abortion business that is cornering the market in Indiana. That's what this is about. It's about abortion. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 6/29/11]

Abortions Accounted For Approximately 16 Percent Of Planned Parenthood Of Indiana's Total Revenue

Abortions Account For 3.56 Percent Of Planned Parenthood Of Indiana's Total Services. Planned Parenthood of Indiana reported that it performed 5,580 abortions out of 156,547 total "procedures provided" in 2010, meaning that 3.56 percent of its procedures were abortions.

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[Planned Parenthood of Indiana Annual Report, 2010]

Abortions Account For Only About 16 Percent Of Planned Parenthood Of Indiana's Revenue.

  • Planned Parenthood of Indiana performed 5,580 abortions in 2010. [Planned Parenthood of Indiana Annual Report, 2010]
  • Planned Parenthood of Indiana's total revenue in 2010 was $15,670,306. [Planned Parenthood of Indiana Annual Report, 2010]
  • According to Live Action's own figures, which Politifact-Florida deemed reasonable in this case, Planned Parenthood charges an average of $450 per abortion. [Politifact-Florida, 4/21/11]
  • This means that Planned Parenthood of Indiana's total revenue from abortion was approximately $2,511,000 or about 16 percent of its total revenue of $15,670,306

Anti-Abortion Activist Lila Rose Consistently Pushes Falsehoods To Attack Planned Parenthood

Rose Pushes Falsehoods Such As The Claim That Planned Parenthood Abets Sex Trafficking Of Children. As Media Matters has documented, Rose is an anti-abortion activist who has repeatedly attacked Planned Parenthood with falsehoods and hoax videos. In particular, she has pushed the falsehood that Planned Parenthood abets child sex trafficking. [Media Matters, 4/6/11, 3/2/11, 2/18/11, 2/8/11, 2/1/11]

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    • Author by phlcstgan (June 30, 2011 9:10 am ET)
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      Rose looks that "Friday" girl, only more insufferable.
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    • Author by historygeek001 (June 30, 2011 10:02 am ET)
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      When does this kind of thing become actionable? If somebody said that Lila Rose makes money by pretending to be anti-abortion while secretly selling children out of a hidden chamber in her garage it would be just as accurate as her statements about Planned Parenthood.
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    • Author by wookie (June 30, 2011 10:05 am ET)
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      The wingnuts are still going with the "abortion is a profit center" line? Many of PP's customers are broke. And wouldn't BC pills be more of a guaranteed income source over time?
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    • Author by epkklk851 (June 30, 2011 10:09 am ET)
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      If there have been gains for Planned Parenthood in the number of abortions provided, I'll bet it is tied to a decreasing number of private abortion clinics and providers. The medical community has to be a bit scared with the amount of protests and the violence aimed at abortion providers, both to their buildings and the people who work there. The Right likes to talk about how Planned Parenthood wants to do away with Blacks and the poor by the use of abortion for eugenics purposes, and yet, they are the ones who have consistently tried to deny minority women access to basic medical care and reproductive medicine for decades. Actually, it isn't just minority women, either. They tried to prevent all women from having any knowledge about their own reproductive systems and how to limit families. Lila Rose is just the latest tool, a pretty young fool who has no real idea of what she's doing. With a Middle Class or better background, she has no conception of what it's like to be poor or uninsured, so she has no idea how rotten her attacks on these services really are.
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    • Author by shaggles (June 30, 2011 10:28 am ET)
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      Isn't Planned Parenthood a non-profit? They aren't really making money at all. But even if they were a for-profit company and abortion was 100% of their revenue, so what? It's legal.
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    • Author by TimNFtWayne (June 30, 2011 8:57 pm ET)
         
      ANOTHER FALSEHOOD:
      Rose has been claiming there are 800 alternatives to PP in Indiana. This is a number which appeared briefly in Indiana media, but which quickly disappeared after incidents like this:

      "The list provided by House Republicans and on their website includes health service providers that have nothing to do with women’s reproductive health, sexual health or family planning.

      They include: a Salvation Army addiction center, a homeless shelter, several mental health centers, a juvenile detention center and the Indiana Women’s Prison."
      Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal Gazette, May 15, 2011
      http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110515/LOCAL/305159889

      More recently, the bills' sponsor tossed out a more modest number of 127.

      He (State Sen. Scott Schneider) said he had not heard of any of the service limits that Cockrum said Planned Parenthood’s review identified, and his office found 127 health centers in Indiana that would readily accept Medicaid patients and offer reproductive and sexual health services.


      http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/6139150-417/state-abortion-law-stirs-debate-on-health-care.html
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    • Author by philodemus (July 01, 2011 6:29 am ET)
         
      Once again, use of selected figures and lack of detailed business structure presents one face for the left and another face for the right. Let's see what we're talking about before anyone starts jumping up and down. Ah! That's the $64 question. PP is not a simple lemonade stand, or is it?
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      • Author by mjlilgui (July 01, 2011 12:11 pm ET)
           
        I don't follow. What numbers do you take issue with from the "left"?
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