As attention has increasingly focused on the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, PPFA has repeated one statistic over and over, like a mantra, in its attempt to advance the notion that abortion is only a small, insignificant part of this billion dollar corporation’s business. This assertion appears in Planned Parenthood press releases, is advanced by Planned Parenthood spokespersons, and is uncritically repeated by their witting and unwitting defenders in the media.
It is the claim that abortion represents “only three percent of Planned Parenthood’s services.” Read more …
April 15, 2011