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WHAT DOES PLANNED PARENTHOOD DO? Jim Sedlak, American Life League (updated by Ed Martin) Planned Parenthood (PP) describes itself as, “a trusted health care provider.”1 It says its health centers provide a wide range of safe, reliable health care—and claims the majority is preventive care, which helps prevent unintended pregnancies through contraception, reduces the spread of sexually transmitted infections through testing and treatment, and screens for cervical and other cancers. PP claims caring physicians, nurse practitioners, and other staff, take time to talk with clients, encouraging them to ask questions in an environment that millions have grown to trust.2
PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES NOT LIKE TO TALK ABOUT ITS ABORTION BUSINESS, BUT IT RUNS THE NATION’S LARGEST ABORTION CHAIN AND COMMITS OVER 374,000 ABORTIONS A YEAR. What does Planned Parenthood really do? Well, very few of its nearly 600 clinics3 actually provide primary care. Of its 2.16 million customers, only 71,998 in 2021-22, just 3.3 percent, get family practice services (primary care).4 Planned Parenthood talks about its “caring physicians,” yet, unless a woman is getting an abortion, most never see a physician. Typically, she would see a clinician or nurse. In most states, prescriptions for medication are written in the name of the local PP’s medical director—who the woman rarely sees. Planned Parenthood does not like to talk about its abortion business. It runs the nation’s largest abortion chain, has more abortion centers than all other abortionists combined, and commits over 374,155 abortions a year.5 Planned Parenthood says its services prevent unintended pregnancies; however, it does not tell women what that means. Most women rightly believe that pregnancy begins when the sperm penetrates the egg and a new human being is created. PP however, uses an obscure 1965 medical definition that defines pregnancy as beginning at implantation in the womb.6 Therefore, most of the products PP sells as contraceptives work, at least some of the time, by killing a new human being before implantation, rather than preventing her creation.
Planned Parenthood brags about how it reduces the spread of STIs.7 Scientists have known for years that the birth control pill (and similar products) actually increases the spread of STIs through lowering the woman’s immune system and changing cervical mucus.8 If PP was serious about reducing STIs, it would get its customers off the pill. What does Planned Parenthood NOT do? Planned Parenthood’s supporters claim the organization does mammograms to detect breast cancer. They do not. In fact, no PP facility in the country is licensed to do mammograms.9 Planned Parenthood claims to screen for cervical cancer. The major risk factor for cervical cancer is HPV (human papilloma virus). Girls who start having sex at a young age and have many sex partners are more likely to get cervical cancer.10 Since PP encourages young people to explore their sexuality, it is the cause of the problem—not the solution.11 Planned Parenthood is NOT a health organization. It is in the sex business and makes its money from young people who it lures into sexual lifestyles—with all the trauma and diseases that lifestyle brings. Editor’s Note: This article published posthumously in honor of Jim Sedlak.
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