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Planned Parenthood to indoctrinate kids through Nobody’s Fool conference

On July 25 Planned Parenthood of Waco will be introducing elementary and middle school aged children into a sexually addictive lifestyle during its Nobody’s Fool conference. Planned Parenthood has held this conference for the past 18 years and reports around 500 children attend the event each year, many from local youth organizations and even churches. Planned Parenthood claims that the conference “encourages abstinence, promotes parent-child communication and gives medically accurate and age-appropriate facts about sexuality issues.” The reality is that Planned Parenthood promotes “confidential services” and routinely hides health information from the parents of minors. Planned Parenthood’s idea of “medically accurate, age-appropriate facts” involves the use of It’s Perfectly Normal, a book that shows graphic depictions of sex acts to children as young as 10 years old and was given to the kids at these conferences in past years.

Thankfully, groups like Pro-Life Waco are diligently at work to expose Planned Parenthood’s attack on the innocence of our children. In addition to letters to the editor, interviews with local media and a peaceful, prayerful presence outside of the conference, this year Pro-Life Waco is distributing yard signs and billboards that read, “Chastity first. Don’t become Planned Parenthood’s fool.” We congratulate the people of Pro-life Waco for being a voice for the children of Texas, both born and pre-born, and ask that you join us in praying for their continued success in their community.

Students get field trip to Planned Parenthood abortion clinic

In a wonderful turn of events, there’s a clear message emerging from a New Hampshire incident where students were taken on a field trip to Planned Parenthood: being involved with Planned Parenthood can be dangerous to your program and your job.

First, let’s quickly tell you what happened:

Last week, middle school students from the Manchester [N.H.] School District were brought to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic to be given a presentation by PP staff. The field trip was part of the STAY program, which is intended for at risk youth and run by the local YMCA.

Local pro-lifers from New Hampshire Right to Life who were praying and counseling outside of the clinic were the first to report this scandal to the community. NHRL noted that the students were instructed not to speak with pro-lifers or take any literature given to them, but the youth walked out of the clinic carrying pamphlets from Planned Parenthood.

When New Hampshire Right to Life made the news of this event public, there was a groundswell of outrage from parents. Within two weeks, the following actions were taken:

Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta said it was inappropriate to include Planned Parenthood on the field trip and it won't happen again. Guinta is also head of the city school board
The Manchester school board voted to investigate how the decision to visit Planned Parenthood was made and determine whether anyone should be disciplined.
Manchester schools superintendent Michael Ludwell conducted an internal investigation and met with the YMCA president to draw up new program guidelines.
The YMCA's president and CEO, Harold Jordan, announced that the YMCA's community outreach director is resigning and that the director, Joyce Palmer, "takes full responsibility for the decision and realizes it was inappropriate to include Planned Parenthood without the proper notification, permission and involvement of parents and the Manchester school district."
Manchester school officials said that, had they known a visit to Planned Parenthood was included in the program, they would not have approved it.

Because of the quick, decisive action by members of New Hampshire Right to Life, the local politicians saw that they had no choice but to act quickly to bring this incident to an end.

The message to the community from this incident is: Planned Parenthood is a controversial organization and should be avoided. The message to educators and social workers is: stay away from Planned Parenthood, it brings controversy and could cost you your job. The message to pro-lifers is: be present in front of Planned Parenthood as often as possible. If NHRTL had not been there, this whole affair would have gone unnoticed and unreported. Also, if you uncover an incident like this, do not be quiet. Shout it from the rooftops!

Youth hold 60-day prayer vigil at California Planned Parenthood

A supporter of American Life League recently forwarded us an e-mail from Survivors, a youth oriented pro-life group based in California. The e-mail stated that beginning on June 1, young adults from Fountain Valley Methodist Church began standing in front of Planned Parenthood in Westminster. To date there are nine people participating in a peaceful, prayerful protest that will take place every day for 60 days. By the fourth day it was already clear that Planned Parenthood’s business was being affected by this protest. Planned Parenthood set up its own "counter propaganda" booth outside with “free goodies” and called in extra workers to make it look like their clinic was a fun place to be.

The young pro-lifers have already reported great fruits and tremendous support from the community. One passerby noticed the signs the pro-lifers held and admitted that he had never seen what an abortion actually did to a pre-born child. He had been apathetic about abortion but after seeing the sign became immediately passionate against it. Even greater fruits can come from this 60-day prayer and visibility event if more people get involved. The protests will continue every day until the end of July in front of the Planned Parenthood at 14372 Beach Blvd. in Westminster. If you are interested in getting involved contact Pastor Dan Nehrbass by calling 949-533-3853 or write DNehrbass@verizon.net. If you or your group holds regular protests against Planned Parenthood, please contact us by writing to STOPP@ALL.org so that you can be added to the national Planned Parenthood protest list.

Planned Parenthood wins, then loses, in Philadelphia

It seemed like a real victory for Planned Parenthood. On June 7, the Philadelphia City Council approved a resolution introduced by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. The resolution proclaimed that Philadelphia was a "Pro-Choice City" which supports "women's reproductive rights and freedom" and defends "the right to choose a legal and safe abortion as a final but critical option for women." "We wanted to make it clear this city cares about pro-choice," Reynolds Brown said after the vote, and noted that she introduced the legislation at the request of Planned Parenthood. She also reported saying, “At the end of the day, we decide what we want the city to look like and be about.” How outrageous that a city official would take instruction from a big business like Planned Parenthood and misrepresent the good people of Philadelphia.

Immediately after the news was released of the 9-8 vote, Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, released a statement that condemned the decision and urged “people of good will to reject the divisive and erroneous label that Philadelphia City Council has forced upon the citizens of Philadelphia." The cardinal’s letter also said, "Philadelphia is experiencing homicide at a record rate; now is not the time to affirm the false choice of procured abortion.” The CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania responded to Cardinal Rigali’s letter by stating, “What's shameful is to equate reproductive rights with homicide.” Well, the tempest raged for seven days. In reconsidering the resolution on June 14, the council reversed itself by a vote of 13-4. In the end, Planned Parenthood lost. Praise God!

Cardinal Rigali issued the following statement: "I applaud the members of Philadelphia City Council who worked to rescind last week's troubling resolution." He said, "The members who supported today's resolution are to be commended for reflecting carefully upon this issue and showing the courage to revisit it." Planned Parenthood will be trying this stunt in large and small communities all across the country. Please educate your elected officials that this is just an attempt by Planned Parenthood to bolster its own morale as it is closing clinics and watching its clinic income decline. We also encourage you to contact Cardinal Rigali and congratulate him for his courageous public letter and instruction to the faithful of Philadelphia. Cardinal Rigali’s e-mail address is: archbish@adphila.org.

Planned Parenthood will be barred from schools in Missouri

Planned Parenthood is upset. There is a bill waiting for Missouri Governor Matt Blunt’s signature that specifically prohibits public school districts from working with groups that provide abortion services or referrals. The Joplin Globe reported that “Part of House Bill 1055, sponsored by Rep. Therese Sander, R-Moberly, allows school districts to continue to teach abstinence-based sex education but effectively kicks out Planned Parenthood, said Kellie Rohrbaugh, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri.” Missouri has long been the leader in states trying to take away Planned Parenthood tax funding; now it is the leader in trying to keep Planned Parenthood from having access to our children.

We encourage all states to look at implementing similar measures. The governor is expected to sign the bill. The Globe reported that “Rohrbaugh also noted that Planned Parenthood has never been an abortion provider in Joplin or Springfield, but because of the bill’s language, Planned Parenthood is preparing for its relationship with the St. Louis and Kansas City school districts to be revoked.” Praise God!

Planned Parenthood temporarily shuts down abortion facility in Wisconsin

We received the following good news from Pro-Life Wisconsin, an American Life League Associate group. Pro-Life Wisconsin has been focused on fighting Planned Parenthood for years and has had many successes. Here is its latest:

At least for the time being, no babies are dying in what has been one of Wisconsin’s most notorious abortion centers. Members of Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Calumet, Winnebago and Fond du Lac County affiliates who routinely pray and sidewalk counsel in front of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Grand Chute just North of Appleton reported the abortion facility will be closed for at least the next four to six weeks.
Details remain sketchy, but apparently the notorious abortionist Gary Prohaska had been flying in from Oregon to commit abortions at the Grand Chute clinic. About a year ago, abortionist Prohaska cut his number of hours at the clinic in half, and the clinic has been struggling ever since to find someone willing to fill his bloody shoes. According to Mark Gabriel, who heads up the Calumet County affiliate of Pro-Life Wisconsin, at least four abortionists in addition to Prohaska have been seen coming and going from the clinic in recent months – but none has stayed for very long.
It has been no secret that Planned Parenthood and other abortion corporations have had an increasingly difficult time finding abortionists. While killing children in utero may be fiscally rewarding, the stigma that exists in the medical community and the general public, as well as the psychological impact associated with taking human life, keeps most physicians from wanting anything to do with abortion. Very few endure the rigors of medical school, residency and other extra training with the desire of becoming known as the town abortionist.

Even though the closing of the Planned Parenthood facility appears to be temporary, pro-lifers in the Fox Valley and around the state will continue to pray that the abortion center in Grand Chute will remain closed permanently. In the meantime, we should all praise God for each child’s life that is spared every day the clinic remains closed.

Planned Parenthood releases latest annual report

During the last week the Planned Parenthood Federation of America released its 2005–2006 annual report (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/annual-report.htm). The annual report presents the “service data” (abortions, birth control sales, etc) for the calendar year 2005 and the “financial data” for the fiscal year July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006. Planned Parenthood had released the service data a few weeks ago and we reported on it in the May 2 issue of the WSR. In this week’s Wednesday STOPP Report we will bring you a full analysis of the financial data and summarize the service data.

Overall Planned Parenthood financial data

Planned Parenthood’s income can be roughly divided into three major categories: clinic income (fees charged customers at the clinics); taxpayer money (grants and contracts from federal, state and local government); and donations (gifts from corporations, foundations and individuals).

For 2005-2006, Planned Parenthood reported the following income amounts:

Clinic income $345.1 million

Taxpayer $ $305.3 million

Donations $212.2 million

Other $ 40.2 million

Total income $902.8 million

Total expenses $847.0 million

Profit ………… $ 55.8 million

This compares to the following numbers reported for 2004-2005:

Clinic income $346.8 million

Taxpayer $ $272.7 million

Donations $215.8 million

Other $ 46.7 million

Total income $882.0 million

Total expenses $819.0 million

Profit ………… $ 63.0 million

Clearly it was a good overall year for Planned Parenthood. Total income went up 2.4 percent, passing $900 million for the first time. The organization continued to make a hefty profit of $55 million, bringing its total profits since 1987 to $656.8 million. But further analysis reveals some potential trouble spots for Planned Parenthood.

Clinic income declines for first time—ever!

As can be seen from the data above, the fees Planned Parenthood collects directly from customers at its clinics are the largest single source of Planned Parenthood’s revenue. They accounted for 38.2 percent of its total income in this latest report and 39.3 percent of the total last year. In fact, except for one year when Planned Parenthood got a $75 million gift from the estate of one of its donors, clinic income has accounted for over one-third of PP’s total income every year since 1987.

This year, clinic income actually went down from last year. As the numbers above show, it declined $1.7 million. Although this is not a very large decline, it is the first year-to-year decline for Planned Parenthood in over 50 years. Now, remember that this data is one year old. It is for the fiscal year at Planned Parenthood that ended on June 30, 2006. This data will give you a good understanding of what has been happening at Planned Parenthood this last year. Remember all the free giveaways of emergency contraception? Well, it was obviously Planned Parenthood’s attempt to lure more customers to its clinics to drive up its clinic income. Clearly PP wants to increase its clinic revenue and increase its customer base. It’s pulling out all the stops.

This data should encourage all who fight Planned Parenthood in your community every day. Planned Parenthood is hurting. It is closing down clinics faster than it can open new ones and its clinic income is down. Read the numbers and take heart. God has provided us with this glimpse of the effect of our work and now is the time to rededicate ourselves to a tireless fight against PP. Planned Parenthood can be defeated. It is not invincible. If we are faithful to God’s call, He will triumph.

Donations also down

The numbers in this year’s annual report also show that the donations to Planned Parenthood were down over the year. This is not as dramatic as the clinic numbers as donations rise and fall from year to year. You can be sure that Planned Parenthood is going out to the corporations and foundations trying to get every penny it can. The fact that the numbers are down is a real tribute to the efforts of Life Decisions International (www.fightpp.org) and its corporate boycott list. We must keep the pressure on these corporations and American Life League wholeheartedly endorses the work of Life Decisions International. We encourage everyone to subscribe to the boycott list and use it to make purchasing decisions.

Taxpayer dollars up

Planned Parenthood is not wanted by the majority of the American public. Its declining clinic numbers show that. Its declining clinic income shows that. Its declining donations show that. Everyone is getting the message: stay away from Planned Parenthood. Everyone, that is, except our elected officials. Planned Parenthood’s annual report shows a staggering $34.6 million increase in taxpayer money going to the organization. Government officials have now given over $3.5 billion of our money to Planned Parenthood just since 1987. We all have been working hard over the last few years to cut off the flow of taxpayer money. What this report shows is that we must push even harder. Planned Parenthood is working throughout the country to increase its taxpayer funds at every level. It feels it is entitled to our tax money. This latest annual report shows you why. Without the increase in taxpayer funds, Planned Parenthood would have had an overall decline in income this year.

So, in an effort to rededicate and direct our strength, we need everyone in the country who is upset with Planned Parenthood to sign the official stop PP tax funding petition at www.StopPlannedParenthoodTaxFunding.com. Although there are several petitions on the internet, this is the one that is monitored by the national office of American Life League and the one we can use to help local people in their efforts against Planned Parenthood. Please ask every one of your friends to sign this petition. They can sign even if they have signed one of the other petitions; and don’t worry about signing it twice, the software will catch duplicate signatures. The flow of 300 million taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood has to be stopped. Please take action today. Since our elected officials won’t do their job, it’s up to us.

We provided you with an analysis of Planned Parenthood service numbers in the May 2 Wednesday STOPP Report. You can see this and all back issues at http://www.all.org/stopp/report.htm. When Planned Parenthood released the data earlier, it reported a record number of abortions at its facilities: 264,943. That’s 5,095 every week. But it did not release any data for its adoption referrals. Last year is did just 1,414 adoption referrals—that’s 180 abortions for every one adoption. We were waiting for the new annual report to get this year’s number. Well, Planned Parenthood did not include any figures on adoption referrals in its new report. So much for Planned Parenthood pushing all options for mothers. We can only assume that the number was so low that Planned Parenthood didn’t want to embarrass itself by revealing it. Planned Parenthood is about killing babies, not about adoption.

Planned Parenthood’s actual numbers

Listed below are the numbers reported by Planned Parenthood in its annual report. We have created a document giving all the Planned Parenthood numbers for the last five years. If you would like a copy of this five-year document, just send an e-mail to STOPP@ALL.org and put the word “PP statistics” in the subject line.

Planned Parenthood’s latest data:

Fiscal Year	2005/06
INCOME ($ in Millions):
Clinic Income	345.1
Government Grants and Contracts	305.3
Private Contributions & Bequests	212.2
Other	33
Guttmacher Institute	7.2
TOTAL INCOME	902.8
EXPENSES ($ in Millions):
Medical Services	548.1
Sexuality Education	46.1
Public Policy	45.2
Services to Affiliates	23.5
U.S. Family Planning	18.9
International Family Planning	8.2
Management & General	102.6
Fundraising	42.9
Payments to Related Organizations	2.3
Guttmacher Institute	9.2
TOTAL EXPENSES	847
PROFIT ($ in Millions)	55.8

Calendar Year	2005
PPFA "SERVICES"
Abortion Procedures	264,943
Contraception, Women	2,399,671
Contraception, Men	80,411
Emergency Contraception Kits	1,245,506
Male Sterilizations	2,407
Female Sterilizations	554
Infertility	248
Colposcopy Procedures	44,353
Cryotherapy Procedures	3,566
HIV testing, Women	188,424
HIV testing, Men	62,300
HIV testing, Gender not reported	29,865
Primary Care	21,739
Midlife clients	14,163
Breast Exams/Breast Care	844,201
Pregnancy Tests	1,040,803
Prenatal Clients	12,548
LOOP/LEEP Procedures	2,836
STI [sic] Procedures, Women & Men	2,610,069
Other Services, Women	63,677*
Other Services, Men	63,677*
Total Unduplicated Clients	3,051,144
REFERRALS:
Adoption Referrals to Other Agencies	no report
Breast Exams/Breast Care	no report
Female Sterilization Referrals	no report
Male Sterilization Referrals	no report

Catholic university honors Planned Parenthood director at graduation

On June 2, John Yarmuth, a pro-abortion congressman in Kentucky, spoke at the 2007 commencement ceremony for Spalding University. Spalding University claims to be “rooted in the Catholic tradition,” but invited Yarmuth to speak at the school’s commencement and receive an honorary doctorate. Local pro-lifers complained to the Archdiocese of Louisville, but the archdiocese refused to try and stop Yarmouth’s appearance. STOPP received a report from one local pro-lifer that he was told that, because Yarmouth is not Catholic, the archdiocese didn’t see a reason to cancel the planned event. This answer came despite John Paul II’s message in The Gospel of Life of the obligation to defend human life: “This task is the particular responsibility of civil leaders . . . No one can ever renounce this responsibility, especially when he or she has a legislative or decision-making mandate.” In addition to being a pro-abortion congressman, John Yarmuth also is a member of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Louisville. Well, despite protests, the event went ahead last Saturday. It was reported to STOPP that, as Yarmouth was delivering his talk from the podium, Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, O.P. was seated on the stage behind him. The presence of a Catholic bishop at a speech given by a director of Planned Parenthood held at a Catholic university is tremendously scandalous. Who knows how many people may be confused about the teachings of the Church if they feel that the archbishop and the Catholic university endorsed Yarmuth and his pro-abortion ideologies?

We encourage you to contact Archbishop Kelly and politely remind him that “Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense” (CCC #2272) and to reiterate the 2004 statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops which stated, "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.” Ask that he issue a letter of apology to the Catholic community of Louisville and that he take steps to ensure there will be no repeat of this horrible affair. Archbishop Kelly can be reached by calling 502-585-3291 or e-mailed at chancery@archlou.org.

We also encourage you to contact Spalding University and insist that the school never again so scandalize the Church by inviting members of Planned Parenthood or any pro-abortion figures to speak or receive honorary degrees at their school. Dr. JoAnn Rooney, the president of Spalding, can be reached by calling 502-585-9911 ext. 2200 or e-mailed at jrooney@spalding.edu.

Planned Parenthood will continue to throw its political weight around

Last week, several pro-abortion groups and individuals attended the National Coalition Meeting for Causes in Common, a group that seeks to combine the forces of homosexual and pro-abortion organizations. One of the individuals who attended the meeting wrote briefly about it in a post on Feministing, a pro-abortion blog. In her blog she passed on what she felt was “the quote of the morning.” She said that the director of government relations for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in regard to politicians that oppose Planned Parenthood’s philosophies said, "I want to spank these people, and I want them to know that if they go against us, we will go against them."

STOPP tried to get a copy of the quote from conference organizers, but we were told that the conference was closed. Although talks were taped, Causes in Common emphasized to attendees the importance of confidentiality so it would not provide a copy of the quote.   Since we have no reason to believe that the blogger, who is a supporter of Planned Parenthood, made up the quote, we present it here as an illustration of the Planned Parenthood mentality concerning elected officials.

New Planned Parenthood facility

Planned Parenthood of Indiana has opened a new 3,000 sq.ft. facility at 3570 N. Meridian St. in Indianapolis; only five blocks north of its previous location. This new facility is part of a program that PP has undertaken to upgrade its operation statewide to the tune of $7 million.   The funding drive for this expansion and renovation of PP’s facilities in Indiana has already raised approximately $5 million. In addition to the donation of private citizens, the Kresge Foundation, an organization whose motto is “stronger nonprofits, stronger communities,” agreed to bestow a grant of $750,000 to Planned Parenthood of Indiana if PP raises the remaining $2 million by the end of the year.    STOPP has worked for years with pro-lifers in Indiana and had the privilege of praying with them outside the old PP abortion facility in Indianapolis. We know these dedicated people will continue their opposition to PP at its new killing center. We look forward to the day when we can join them on the streets in front of the new facility and to the time when we can celebrate the closing of all PP facilities in Indiana. We also encourage our readers to contact the Kresge Foundation and voice your outrage over their grant to Planned Parenthood. Write the foundation and make them aware of how bad Planned Parenthood is for our communities, how it kills babies, hurts women and indoctrinates children into perverse lifestyles. The Kresge Foundation can be reached by calling 248-643-9630 or writing to infor@kresge.org.

Planned Parenthood plans for the future

In the Wednesday STOPP Report, we bring you short news items about Planned Parenthood and what people across the country are doing to fight them. Although this will keep you abreast of what is going on with PP, sometimes a more detailed article is needed.   These articles appear in American Life League’s Celebrate Life magazine. The latest issue of Celebrate Life features "None dare call it a conspiracy" by Jim Sedlak. It’s about Planned Parenthood’s plans to control people’s real reproductive rights and how the Gardasil shots figure into those plans.   “None dare call it a conspiracy” is on the magazine’s homepage: www.CLmagazine.org. Or you can distribute it directly with:

http://clmagazine.org/backissues/2007mayjune_18-21nonedarecallitaconspiracy.pdf While you’re at the web site, why not subscribe to the magazine? For less than $13 a year, you’ll get all Celebrate Life articles about Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood denies being abortion giant

Last week, a reader of the Wednesday STOPP Report forwarded an e-mail in which Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards denied an accusation by a political strategist that Planned Parenthood is the most radical pro-abortion group in the country. While American Life League does not take any positions on any political candidates, we must comment when the truth is assailed, which is precisely what Cecile Richards has done. According to Planned Parenthood’s own data, it committed 264,943 abortions in its own business facilities during 2005. It did this by operating the nation’s largest abortion chain—with 232 medical and surgical abortion facilities across the country—and continually fighting for the so-called right of every woman to kill her child through abortion.

The president of Planned Parenthood can complain all she wants, but Richards cannot erase Planned Parenthood’s relentless attack on the innocent that has claimed more than four million preborn babies (in Planned Parenthood killing centers) since 1970. When an organization ends the lives of 5,095 innocent human beings every week—20 percent of all surgical abortions in the United States—it doesn’t make any difference what else it does. Richards’ attempt to deny that Planned Parenthood is the most radical pro-abortion group in the country simply has no basis in fact.

Planned Parenthood funding ban lifted in Texas city

In 2003, Planned Parenthood's funding through McAllen’s Community Development Block Grant program, which provided HIV screenings, was transferred to the AIDS Council for a similar program. The transfer took place after many people realized that the AIDS Council could do the same work, but would not be overshadowed by the evil of promoting abortion as was the case with Planned Parenthood. Last week, city commissioners reinstated local funding of Planned Parenthood in McAllen, Texas under the guise of educating people about HPV. Under the new funding the PP clinic expects to receive about $15,000. The single vote against funding Planned Parenthood’s HPV awareness program came from city commissioner John J. Ingram. When asked why he opposed the funding of PP, he mentioned a tremendous amount of phone calls and e-mails. “I’ve never had so many phone calls on an issue,” Ingram said. He went on to say that, “I can’t in good conscience approve this.”

In the STOPP CD set, Jim Sedlak mentions the importance of calling city commissioners about Planned Parenthood funding. Jim mentions that in all of the communities STOPP has prevented, or removed, funding of Planned Parenthood we asked the commissioners the same question: “How many calls does it take for you to consider something a big problem?” From the smallest town to the biggest city, we have always heard the same response: three. It only takes three calls for a commissioner to consider something is very important because the majority of the time they never hear from anyone about budget issues. However, Jim also points out in his talk in the CD set that this is three calls for each commissioner, not three calls total. Obviously if more calls to each person can be garnered, all the better, but remember that every member of the committee must be contacted.

In the case of McAllen, we can see that more pressure needed to be put on all of the commissioners to convince them to vote against funding Planned Parenthood. However, with regard to Commissioner Ingram’s comments we can also clearly see how effective calling your local officials to defund Planned Parenthood can be.

Pharmacy refuses to stock abortifacient contraception

For years Planned Parenthood has been active in manipulating businesses into dispensing dangerous abortifacient drugs through legislation and threats from its supporters. You may remember a story in a past Wednesday STOPP Report where even the retail giant Wal-Mart has succumbed to Planned Parenthood’s bullying. However, last week Snyder Drug in Great Falls, Montana began giving notes to any customers who came in to fill a prescription for hormonal contraception. The note read that Snyder Drug would no longer be carrying these drugs by the end of May. One customer called one of the owners and asked why this new policy was enacted. The owner told her that these contraceptive drugs were dangerous.

Immediately Planned Parenthood launched a smear campaign and is encouraging its supporters to sign a petition that would demand that pharmacies carry the dangerous abortifacient contraceptives. We congratulate Snyder Drug for doing its job as a pharmacy by making sure its customers are not hurt by dangerous drugs. We commend the pharmacy for standing up against a big business like Planned Parenthood and for refusing to be bullied into running their own business in any way other than how they see fit as private owners.

Planned Parenthood protects rapists

For the past several weeks, it has been difficult to search for “Planned Parenthood” on the internet without finding an article about how it has refused to report suspected rape and molestation of minors to the authorities. Headlines include:

·        Planned Parenthood failed to report incest
·        Planned Parenthood didn't tell, suit says
·        Planned Parenthood concealing crimes?

Even the Wednesday STOPP Report has included items about this scandal in the past couple of issues. We decided to devote the entire issue of this week’s Wednesday STOPP Report to bring you breaking information on this important subject.

A history of Planned Parenthood’s illegal activity

There is no way of telling definitively how long Planned Parenthood has been protecting rapists. But here is just a sampling of the events pulled from American Life League’s archives:

Arizona

In 1998, a 12-year-old girl in Glendale, Arizona, who was raped by her foster brother, had an abortion at Planned Parenthood and PP never reported the rape to authorities. Finally, when the same girl went to Planned Parenthood six months later for another abortion, PP did notify authorities and the foster brother was arrested and convicted. The girl sued Planned Parenthood for failing to report the rape the first time and a judge ruled that PP was negligent for not initially reporting the rape. Court documents report the girl reached a settlement in the case.

California

In 1999, an 11-year-old girl in California went to Planned Parenthood of the Golden Gate. She told Planned Parenthood that she had been raped, but asked PP not to tell anyone, including her parents. Of course, the law is clear; regardless of the girl’s desires, when an 11-year-old is raped, there are mandatory reporting requirements. In December of 2005 Planned Parenthood of the Golden Gate featured a letter from the girl on its website. The girl wrote in praise of Planned Parenthood for helping her keep her rape secret. After American Life League exposed this letter and publicly denounced Planned Parenthood’s inaction the letter was immediately taken down. (However, the letter can still be found on the internet archive here.)

Ohio

In November 2004 a 16-year-old-girl was brought to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Cincinnati and forced to have an abortion by her father. The girl says she told the Planned Parenthood employee that her father was forcing her to have sex. Planned Parenthood did not report the abuse and the father continued to rape the girl for another year and a half. On May 9, 2007 the girl filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio for refusing to report the rape. The same Planned Parenthood affiliate is also being sued for not reporting the rape of a 14-year-old girl by her soccer coach.

Connecticut

A 22-year-old man was arrested this month in New London, Connecticut for raping a 14-year-old girl and getting her pregnant three times in six months. Newspaper reports say it was the girl’s mother that alerted authorities, not the abortion facility. Although newspaper accounts do not identify the abortion facility involved, Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in Denton, Texas told the Wednesday STOPP Report that he has a copy of the police reports and it was a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Norwich, Connecticut.

Life Dynamics’ important work

Mark Crutcher has been at the forefront in calling attention to the outrageous activities of Planned Parenthood in protecting those who prey on our children. In 2002, he conducted an undercover investigation to determine how widespread the practice of Planned Parenthood protecting child predators is. He had a young woman, posing as a 13-year-old girl, call over 800 Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation facilities across the country, telling the clinic personnel that her 22-year-old boyfriend got her pregnant and asking how she could get an abortion without getting her boyfriend in trouble. In all 50 states clinic workers are required by law to report known sexual activity between a 13-year-old and an adult, yet the Life Dynamics investigation found that 91 percent of the time, Planned Parenthood advised the girl on how to protect the child predator.

Planned Parenthood tries to intimidate young student reporter

As Lila Rose, a student at UCLA, heard about all these accusations against Planned Parenthood, she decided to conduct her own undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood in her community. On several occasions she visited various abortion clinics posing as a 15 year old who, she told clinic staff, was impregnated by her 23-year-old boyfriend. Her conversations with the staff were recorded by a video camera that she concealed in her bag. Once again, Planned Parenthood staff tried to help her cover up what was described as a case of statutory rape. Under California law, PP was required to report her sexual activity if she was 15, but would not have to report it if she was 16. In one such recording, a Planned Parenthood employee can be heard instructing Rose to “say you are 16,” and then instructed her to lie on the forms: “Just figure out a birth date that works. And I don't know anything."

When Planned Parenthood was confronted in public with this taped violation of California law, its response was to attack Lila. Shortly after the videos and articles exposing Planned Parenthood became public Planned, Parenthood threatened legal action against her. According to California law it is illegal to record people unless all members being taped are aware of it. In compliance with the law, Rose has handed over the videos to Planned Parenthood and has removed them from the internet. Incredibly, Planned Parenthood in California disregards the laws that protect minors, but insists on adherence to laws that protect Planned Parenthood. Obviously, its priorities are all messed up.

What can you do?

We believe that this entire subject will be key in the eventual destruction of Planned Parenthood. All of us who fight Planned Parenthood rightly emphasize the huge numbers of children it kills and the way it steals the souls of our teens. But its protection of child predators is something that surpasses both of the others in terms of encouraging people to oppose Planned Parenthood. Just this week, American Life League’s Rock for Life Ventura chapter was outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Los Angeles. The members report that even avidly pro-abortion individuals are upset with Planned Parenthood about its protection of child predators.

If we focus on this issue, we can hasten the demise of Planned Parenthood. Here are some of the things we encourage you to do:

FOCUS – While maintaining all your ongoing efforts against Planned Parenthood, every organization fighting PP should identify one person who will focus on the child predator issue.
KNOW – Get the background information on this whole effort at www.childpredators.com and be prepared to answer questions. Your organization should also know the mandatory reporting laws in your state. Every state has them.
RESEARCH – Find out about the Planned Parenthood facilities in your area. How many customers under the age of 15 does it claim to have? How many reports has it filed with the authorities about the sexual activities of these customers? If you need help getting this information, just send us an e-mail at stopp@all.org. Put “researcher” in the subject line and we will get you in touch with a professional researcher who has already helped a number of groups get this data.
FUNDING – Find out if your local PP clinic gets funds from Title X or other government programs. All these programs require that PP adhere to all state mandatory reporting rules. If PP is not reporting, it will not only lose all future funds, but it will have to pay back past funds received.
TAKE ACTION – Based on everything you find out, you should take action to bring Planned Parenthood to justice. Among the things you should do:
1. Document your findings in a report that can be given out to interested people.
2. Educate your local community through press releases, press conferences, letters to the editor and fliers. American Life League has a one-page flier that you can download here. You can make copies and distribute them. You can even run the flier as an ad in your local newspapers (including the popular “shoppers” news).
3. Ask your local district attorney, in light of the growing evidence around the country of Planned Parenthood’s involvement in protecting rapists, to launch an investigation of your local Planned Parenthood to ensure it is properly reporting.
4. Ask the government agencies that are funding Planned Parenthood to conduct a thorough audit of your local Planned Parenthood to ensure it is complying with all mandatory reporting requirements.
5. If your local Planned Parenthood clinic receives Title X funding (you can see the list of Title X recipients by state here), ask your elected members of Congress to request the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct an audit.
6. Inform parents in your area that, if they find out their under-age children are receiving contraceptives or abortions at Planned Parenthood, they may be able to file a report. Send them to www.parentalalert.com.

American Life League will be working closely with Life Dynamics on this effort and we encourage everyone who is serious about fighting Planned Parenthood to take action in your local communities. We will bring you further information as it develops.

Judy Blume voices support for Planned Parenthood

Many of you may associate the name Judy Blume with popular children’s books and may even have read Freckle Juice or another of her works with your own children. One thing that you may not realize is that Judy Blume is an active supporter of Planned Parenthood and its policies and even holds membership in PP’s board of advocates. In an interview recently published on Planned Parenthood’s youth web site, TeenWire, Ms. Blume states that she “hated the idea of feeding young people the idea that sex is linked to punishment.” However, instead of showing sex as an expression of love between husband and wife she obscured the beauty of the marital embrace in her book Forever by glorifying the fornication of two teenagers. When TeenWire asked her why this book was so groundbreaking she said it was because these teen characters were “sexually responsible” and that they “enjoyed their sexuality.”

She explains to TeenWire that she thinks it is important for kids to be given the facts and that she feels a “comprehensive sex education program would help.” However, when asked what advice she would give to children who are sexually curious, she said, “there are other ways to be sexual together besides having intercourse. And remember, the safest sex of all is masturbation” (something she hyped in her 1973 book Deenie). Judy Blume’s remarks almost seem to be taken directly from one of PP’s youth pamphlets or web sites. Since she serves on its board of advocates, that may not be very far from the truth.

Often people mistakenly think that Planned Parenthood is only a small operation in their community and that it only affects the people who intentionally go to it. Many parents think that as long as their kids don’t go to a PP clinic, they have nothing to worry about. The reality is that Planned Parenthood is responsible for holding the banner and leading the way for the culture of death. Planned Parenthood manipulates schools, governments and even cultures with its subversive perversion. Never forget that the fight against Planned Parenthood is not just a fight against abortion, or contraception, or pornography; it is truly a fight to protect the lives and souls of all of those in your community.

Planned Parenthood compares sex ed programs

In an e-mail that was forwarded to us by a reader of the Wednesday STOPP Report, Planned Parenthood of New York City complained about abstinence education. In this e-mail, PPNYC also invites people to a “hands-on comparison of sex ed material used in New York schools.” It isn’t often that we can say this, but that is a great idea, Planned Parenthood. We encourage our readers to share with the community in New York City, or any other community around the country, exactly what Planned Parenthood wants to teach our children. Let members of your school board, fellow parents and community leaders know that Planned Parenthood markets “lollipop” condoms to appeal to kids. Let them know that PP’s youth web site, TeenWire, gives graphic depictions of sex acts. Expose the behavior encouraged by Planned Parenthood at college “sex fairs” across the country. Make people aware of the language manipulation and medical lies that Planned Parenthood tells about the abortifacient nature of hormonal contraception.

The reality is that if people knew what Planned Parenthood deemed “comprehensive, medically accurate sex ed,” people would be disgusted and outraged. Don’t let ignorance stand in the way of others joining in the fight to keep Planned Parenthood out of our communities. Work every day to expose PP’s effort for what it really is. Finally, if you do not already, make sure to sign up for your local Planned Parenthood’s e-mail and postal mailing lists. This is an easy and effective way to keep up to date on the activities in your community so that you can be a presence of opposition to Planned Parenthood and a witness to the truth no matter where PP is or what it is doing.

Planned Parenthood reacts

Three years ago, American Life League launched a campaign against Planned Parenthood with the theme, “Planned Parenthood Steals Souls.” The campaign stems from the realization that Planned Parenthood programs and products are designed to lead our children into lives of sexual sin. Once they are locked into an over-sexualized lifestyle it will be very difficult for young people to extricate themselves and this will endanger their immortal souls. As part of the campaign, we developed a brochure that is available in both English and Spanish, as well as a picket sign that has English on one side and Spanish on the other. All deliver the same message: Planned Parenthood Steals Souls.

One community where these signs and brochures have been used extensively is Amarillo, Texas. This past week, something strange happened at the Planned Parenthood facility there. As protestors were outside demonstrating, someone at the Planned Parenthood facility placed a fish bowl outside the building. It was about a quarter-filled with what looked like a mixture of debris. On the bowl was taped a hand-written sign that read: “SOULS: 5 cents EACH.” The implication, of course, is that Planned Parenthood is now selling all the souls it has been stealing. Certainly it is outrageous that PP is trivializing the tremendous damage it does to communities. However, we want to point out a deeper significance of this act: After many months of reading the Planned Parenthood Steals Souls signs, the staff inside the facility reacted. If it’s getting to this facility’s people, you can be sure it is having a similar effect at other Planned Parenthood business locations around the country.

We encourage all of you to use this message in your efforts against Planned Parenthood in your communities, whether those efforts involve writing letters to the editor of your local newspaper, or holding the signs and distributing the brochures outside Planned Parenthood facilities.

Opposition to Planned Parenthood growing in Portland

You may remember from past Wednesday STOPP Reports that Planned Parenthood wants to put a surgical abortion facility in a predominantly African-American community in Portland, Oregon. The facility will also be located right next to a Muslim community center. When the city originally notified local people about the proposed use of the new building, it said there would be a health clinic moving in. The city failed to mention that the health provider was Planned Parenthood and that abortions would be performed in the building.

When local citizens found out what was really happening, they were outraged. They formed an organization, Precious Children of Portland, and are working hard to derail the city’s and Planned Parenthood’s plans. This past weekend, they held a successful rally with speakers that included a post-abortive woman, a Catholic deacon, a Muslim imam, a Christian pastor and Pastor Clenard Childress of L.E.A.R.N. The message to Planned Parenthood was clear: Our community doesn’t want you here. And the citizens of Portland will not sit by while you try to setup a killing center. For further information, go to www.PreciousChildrenOfPortland.org.

Make your efforts known

We are encouraged by the response we have already received from our request in last week’s Wednesday STOPP Report for people to let us know of local protests against Planned Parenthood for our national protest list. Some of the highlights are:

Weekly mass and protest at a clinic in Amarillo, Texas; this exposes a PP clinic in a residential neighborhood
Prayer and protest three days a week in Pittsburgh with numerous stories of babies saved
A mass and prayer protest led by Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller in Orland Park, Illinois

We thank all of the people who have already contacted us about the peaceful protests they are carrying on regularly in their communities. If you have not yet contacted us about local protests in your community, please e-mail us your group’s name, the location of the clinic you protest, what times you meet and contact information at STOPP@ALL.org and we will add you to the national protest list we are compiling.

STOPPers celebrate victory in North Rockland, New York

STOPPers in Rockland County, New York have been actively fighting Planned Parenthood for many years. While they have suffered a few setbacks they have scored a number of successes, which have been reported in previous issues of the Wednesday STOPP Report. Throughout the years and in all of their work their focus has been two-fold: keep Planned Parenthood away from their tax money and away from their children. On May 16, these persistent warriors celebrated a major victory in the North Rockland school district. In the school board election, two opponents of Planned Parenthood were elected. In the process, they defeated the current president of the school board who was reportedly a very strong supporter of Planned Parenthood. Remember, when you fight Planned Parenthood on a local level you are just as powerful—if not more powerful—than Planned Parenthood with all of its media sway and millions of dollars. Congratulations to all who maintain the fight against Planned Parenthood in Rockland County and across the country. With work and prayer, one thing is certain: Planned Parenthood can be defeated!

5,095

Last week we told you that Planned Parenthood released its new numbers and says it committed 264,943 abortions in 2005. That works out to 5,095 abortions every week.This is a horrendous number and we ask you all to publicize it as much as possible. Some suggestions for points you can work into talks, or letters-to-the-editor, or put on signs are:

· Planned Parenthood claims abortion is only five percent of its business, but that five percent ends the lives of 5,095 Americans every week – more than the 3,000 Americans that died in the terrorist attacks on September 11.

· Planned Parenthood says it prevents abortions through contraceptives, yet the organization ends the lives of 5,095 every week – every 12 weeks, Planned Parenthood kills more Americans than the number who lost their lives in the Vietnam War.

· Planned Parenthood says it is pro-choice, not pro-abortion, yet it commits 5,095 abortions every week – killing more Americans each week than have died in the entire Iraq war.

· Planned Parenthood says it does prenatal care – so what? It kills 5,095 babies in the womb every week.

· Planned Parenthood says it needs taxpayer money so it can see more customers, yet it already kills 5,095 babies each week – how many more will it kill if it gets more tax dollars?

· Planned Parenthood says it provides health services, yet Planned Parenthood kills 5,095 innocent human beings every week, making Planned Parenthood the fourth leading cause of death in the United States – behind non-Planned Parenthood abortions (19,700 a week), heart disease (12,500 a week) and cancer (10,500 a week).

· The Susan G. Komen Foundation gives Planned Parenthood money to do testing to prevent deaths from breast cancer, yet Planned Parenthood kills 5,095 Americans every week – over six times the estimated 800 a week that die from breast cancer.

You get the idea. Let’s never forget the 5,095 babies that will die at Planned Parenthood this week. Whenever Planned Parenthood talks, whatever claims it makes, we should have but one reply: 5,095.

Planned Parenthood honored by Florida officials

Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward County recently held its annual awards ceremony where actress Heather Tom reiterated her support of the organization and publicly condemned the funding of abstinence education and the ban on the partial-birth abortion procedure. Also at the ceremony an award was bestowed to Janet Boyle because of her role as financial benefactor of a new PP clinic which bears her name. Immediately after the awards ceremony the crowd gathered at the location of Planned Parenthood’s newest express clinic at Palm Plaza in Deerfield Beach. At the ribbon cutting, a representative from county commissioner Kristin Jacob’s office presented the CEO of the PP affiliate with a proclamation from the local board of county commissioners and signed by Mayor Josephus Eggelletion, Jr. This proclamation designated the day as “Planned Parenthood of South Palm Beach and Broward County, Inc. Day.”

Outrageous! Not only has Planned Parenthood been allowed to expand its radical and dangerous agenda by opening this clinic but the officials of the city are honoring its affiliate for doing so. This is an organization that just last week publicly confirmed with its new service numbers that it has killed over 4 million Americans. We encourage our readers to contact Commissioner Jacobs and Mayor Eggelletion to politely demand a reason why an organization that kills children and spreads perversion to our youth is being honored by the county. Even more importantly, please use this as an opportunity to educate these community leaders about the tremendous evil that Planned Parenthood commits in our communities every day. Commissioner Jacobs can be reached by writing to kjacobs@broward.org, Mayor Eggelletion may be reached by writing to jeggelletion@broward.org. Both may be contacted by calling 954-347-7002.

Planned Parenthood constantly clamoring for more money

Despite receiving over $200 million in private donations each year and being backed by wealthy businessmen, celebrities and even presidential candidates, Planned Parenthood is constantly clamoring for more funding from the government. Why? Because this big business needs the nearly $275 million in taxpayers' money to feed its profit margins, administrators' six-figure salaries and its radical agenda. In fact in a recent funding plea, Kathy Kneer, president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, complains that “statewide Planned Parenthood is turning away 10,000 patients a month, 120,000 patients a year.” Of course we know that this is good news; that is 120,000 fewer people for Planned Parenthood to lie to and hurt.

Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood employed one of its favorite lies in an attempt to manipulate the government into forking over tax dollars. According to PP organizers in California, “much of its work is providing primary care.” However, a brief look at Planned Parenthood’s most recent service numbers shows that the dwindling 21,739 primary care customers are dwarfed by its 264,943 abortions. Sadly this is a common story across the country; Planned Parenthood is a master at manipulating cities, states and even the federal government into granting it millions of tax dollars through lies and empty promises.

Even abortion advocates see through Planned Parenthood’s lies

While the driving force for most people to fight Planned Parenthood is the fact that it is the nation’s largest abortion provider and world’s largest abortion advocate, it is not the only reason people oppose this big business. In fact, occasionally people who even defend abortion will express their disgust for Planned Parenthood as an organization. In an article written by Helen Gilbert for Socialism.com, she points out the fact that, despite its rhetoric, when given the opportunity to promote its message in the streets, Planned Parenthood instead opted to publicize a fundraising effort. Ms. Gilbert then goes on to point out the disingenuous nature of PP’s claims that it works to “keep abortion rare.”

While we disagree with Ms. Gilbert about a great many things regarding the morality of abortion, even she is outraged by Planned Parenthood’s lies and money grubbing. As you educate your community about the evils of Planned Parenthood and especially as you garner support to remove its tax funding, remember that as awful as its role in abortion is, there are many reasons to oppose PP. This is why it is so important to make people aware of all of the scandalous actions that Planned Parenthood is involved in. Besides, convincing someone to oppose Planned Parenthood as an organization may be the beginning of an even greater conversion to the fullness of truth.

Planned Parenthood sued for failure to report child abuse

STOPP has just received word that a teen in Cincinnati, Ohio is suing Planned Parenthood for failing to report to the authorities that her father was sexually abusing her. In a civil suit filed today in Warren County Common Pleas Court, the teen says she disclosed the sexual abuse to a Planned Parenthood employee when her father took her to the agency’s Mount Auburn clinic to abort her pregnancy in November 2004. Despite this, the teen alleges that Planned Parenthood did not file any police report. The teen later told a high school coach who reported the abuse to authorities and her father was eventually tried and convicted for sexually abusing his daughter.

The lawsuit alleges that Planned Parenthood employees did not tell police that the girl alleged the pregnancy resulted from rape because of a “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy relating to sex abuse. The full news article can be read at: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070509/NEWS01/305090037 Despite mounting evidence that Planned Parenthood routinely protects child predators, law enforcement across the country has been slow to prosecute. Let’s pray that this suit, and others, will provide the documentation needed to close Planned Parenthood down for good.

Planned Parenthood releases new U.S. numbers

Within the last few days, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has released its so-called service numbers for the year 2005. The numbers bring more bad news as Planned Parenthood continues to kill more innocent human beings every year.

Planned Parenthood kills record number of babies

According to the data released by Planned Parenthood, it admits to committing 264,943 abortions in 2005—the most babies it has ever killed in a single year. Adding this new death toll to those previously reported by Planned Parenthood, the organization now admits to the deaths of 4,068,749 babies in the womb since July 2, 1970—the day Planned Parenthood opened the first free-standing abortion facility in the country and did its first abortions. Although it took Planned Parenthood 35 years to kill its first four million babies in the United States, at its current rate of doing abortion, it could kill another four million in less than 15 years. Currently the organization has devolved into an efficient killing machine, one that survives because elected officials and private citizens allow it to exist. It is time that we all took every peaceful and lawful action we can to shut down these purveyors of death.

Planned Parenthood’s actual numbers

Presented below are the actual numbers released this week by Planned Parenthood. Please note that it did not release any referral numbers. Therefore, we will not know the number of adoption referrals until the full annual report is released in the next month or two.

2005 Affiliate Medical Services Summary

Contraception
Reversible Contraceptive Clients, Women	2,399,671
Emergency Contraception Kits	1,245,506
Tubal Sterilization Clients	554
Reversible Contraceptive Clients, Men	80,411
Vasectomy Clients	2,407
	3,728,549
STI/STD Testing and Treatment
STI Procedures, Women and Men	2,610,069
HIV Testing Clients, Women	188,424
HIV Testing Clients, Men	62,300
HIV Testing Clients, Gender Not Reported	29,865
	2,890,658
Cancer Screening and Prevention
Pap Tests	1,116,681
Breast Exams/ Breast Care	844,201
Colposcopy Procedures	44,353
LEEP Procedures	2,836
Cryotherapy Procedures	3,566
	2,011,637
Other Women's Health Services
Pregnancy Tests	1,040,803
Prenatal Clients	12,548
Midlife Clients	14,163
Infertility Clients	248
	1,067,762
Abortions
Abortion Procedures	264,943

Other Services
Primary Care Clients, Women and Men	21,739
Other Services, Women and Men	127,354
	149,093

Total Services	10,112,642
Total Unduplicated Clients	3,051,144

You can read the full report from Planned Parenthood at: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/pp-services-5552.htm Planned Parenthood also updated its “Planned Parenthood by the numbers” web page at: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/pp-numbers-5551.htm

Planned Parenthood’s educational activities

Planned Parenthood’s data clearly shows its emphasis on young people. Among the educational highlights it chose to list are:

Nearly 2,200 affiliate staff and volunteer educators provided educational programs to 1.3 million people of all ages—from preschools to universities, from prisons and social service programs to religious institutions and civic organizations (emphasis added).
Numerous training programs were provided to more than 73,000 professionals who work with children, teens, and young adults.
3,000 teen advocates, peer educators, and teen theater performers carry Planned Parenthood's prevention messages to their communities

Planned Parenthood’s birth control sales

The following is a list of the types of birth control Planned Parenthood sells and how many of each type:

1,072,653 doses of oral contraception
434,340 doses of non-prescription barrier
225,569 doses of progestin-only injectables
163,178 doses of combined hormone patch
81,589 doses of combined hormone ring
26,396 IUDs
4,799 doses of prescription barrier
139,181 other forms of contraception

Planned Parenthood’s selected significant changes

In reviewing the Planned Parenthood service data as compared with last year, we note the following changes:

261,969 more doses of "emergency contraception”
- 41% EC sales for unduplicated clients compared to 33% last year (27% and 23% the previous years) so the number of PP customers who just buy EC from the organization continues to rise
- 33% of total contraceptive sales was EC last year whereas it was 29% the year before
52,319 more doses of female contraceptives than the previous year
82,562 fewer breast cancer screenings than the previous year
5,062 fewer instances of prenatal care given
32,925 fewer pregnancy tests
35% fewer infertility clients
7,630 fewer primary care clients

A ray of hope

It is very difficult to find anything positive in a report that admits to the deaths of more than 264,000 babies in a single year. However, there is something buried in all the numbers and verbiage that gives a ray of hope. It appears that Planned Parenthood is beginning to lose its hold on young people. In this report, Planned Parenthood says that teenagers receive 25% of its services. In previous reports, Planned Parenthood has claimed that number to be as high as 26.7%. This drop in percentage may be because Planned Parenthood is putting a tremendous emphasis on so-called Emergency Contraception or it may represent a drop in youth clients. We will continue to watch this development. In an even more telling trend, Planned Parenthood reported 600,000 visits per month to its teen web site in 2005. In 2004, it reported 800,000 visits per month. This, again, is a trend that offers some hope for the future.

Prayer and action needed

As we digest these new numbers from Planned Parenthood, we need to offer prayers for all those victims of Planned Parenthood and for the staff and volunteers at the organization. Please pray that God will open their eyes to the evil that they are doing and grant them the courage to change. We also call on all those opposed to Planned Parenthood to increase efforts against the organization. We must, in a peaceful, prayerful way, educate our communities on Planned Parenthood and the death it brings to body and soul. Use the numbers reported here to let everyone know the horror of an organization that has already killed four million babies and will kill another four million within the next 15 years, unless it is STOPPed.

Is Planned Parenthood committing partial birth abortions?

In an open letter posted on Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s web site, Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president of medical affairs for PPFA, implies that Planned Parenthood commits partial-birth abortions. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the ban on this abortion procedure, Dr. Cullins made it clear that the ruling "will affect some second-trimester abortions at Planned Parenthood.“ She noted the law would not take effect immediately, and emphasized, “If you have an appointment, you should still come in.” This clearly suggests that Planned Parenthood may be committing partial birth abortions and will continue to do so as long as possible. Of course the murder of a child is just as grievous whether that child is one day old or 9 months old. However, the fact that Planned Parenthood promotes the killing of children even at their births is definitely chilling.

Planned Parenthood uses Supreme Court decision to push radical agenda

Within moments of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortion Planned Parenthood released several statements that it was “saddened” by the news, noting that “Bush’s Supreme Court has changed everything.” The reality is that this decision still permits people to kill their pre-born children at any point, for any reason, but that this one method of killing cannot be used, unless one claims the exception for life of the mother. Planned Parenthood is “saddened” because it has fewer options for killing babies. Planned Parenthood’s outrage over this decision shows that it is so intent on committing abortions that it can’t even stand one especially gruesome method from being banned. In fact, PP is so upset over the fact that it cannot commit this form of infanticide that it is holding protests and visibility events across the country today and throughout this week.

Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island will be protesting at the Rhode Island state house from 5:00-7:00 tonight (Wednesday).
Planned Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania will be holding signs along the 1800-1900 blocks of East Market Street in York, Pennsylvania between 5:00 and 6:00 tonight.
Planned Parenthood of the Saint Louis Region will be collecting petition signatures outside of Busch Stadium in Saint Louis between 6:15 and 7:15 tonight
Planned Parenthood of Collier County will be holding a protest in Naples, Florida, at the corner of Creech Rd. and Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon between 2:30and 3:30.
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia will be holding signs at the intersection of Independence Blvd. and Virginia Beach Blvd. in Virginia Beach tomorrow between 5:00 and 6:30 pm.

We encourage you to go out to these sites and be a witness to the truth. Feel free to arrive at these places early and bring signs of your own. Also, if you happen to pass by an event that Planned Parenthood is taking part in, feel free to peacefully challenge the protestors. Often those who are holding signs in support of Planned Parenthood’s radical agenda don't know the full story about this organization. Remember when talking with these people that they are not the enemy, but that they too must be lovingly taught about the evil of Planned Parenthood’s work. If you do not see an event listed in your community, this does not mean that there will not be one. To keep up to date on the activities of Planned Parenthood in your community frequently check PP’s SaveRoe.com web site. On this web site, there is an “events” section where Planned Parenthood affiliates list times and locations of upcoming activities.

New resource available in the fight to defeat Planned Parenthood

One of simplest and most effective ways of exposing Planned Parenthood’s attack on our children is by directing people to view the material on its youth web site, www.TeenWire.com. Typically, people are appalled by the web site at first glance; but the problem is that most parents do not know that it exists. We encourage you to spread the word about this web site to your friends and family, but exposing Planned Parenthood’s assault on children can’t stop there. Because of this American Life League is happy to offer the newest installment of the reasons to stop Planned Parenthood. This ad outlines the offensive material Planned Parenthood uses to exploit kids and issues a call to action to insist that all of its tax funding be immediately removed. As with all of the materials in the downloads section of our web site, this resource is free. Remember, this is not just to be used as an ad. You can print it on a standard piece of paper and it will make a great flier to handout at the next Planned Parenthood event in your community. To download a copy of Evil Web, simply click here.

Parents in New York protect students from Planned Parenthood

You may recall a story from the February 21 edition of the Wednesday STOPP Report about parents in North Rockland, N.Y. who were outraged over Planned Parenthood being invited into their children’s school. There was an immediate groundswell of opposition from the community when they were informed and parents began to immediately employ the tactics outlined in our resource, Parent Power. We are happy to report that as of April 12 .Fieldstone Secondary School not only revoked Planned Parenthood’s invitation, but will officially no longer allow it to present at the school again. "We decided that our teachers are fully capable of covering the material," said Brian Monahan, North Rockland superintendent of schools. The announcement came after weeks of calls, letters and meetings with concerned parents and community leaders. One parent said that he didn’t think students “should be taught by an organization that provides for chemical and/or surgical abortions as well as sexual promiscuity amongst children.” We congratulate the vigilance and diligence of the parents in North Rockland and hope that this news will encourage parents around the country with the knowledge that they do have the power to protect their children from Planned Parenthood’s attacks.