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Planned Parenthood’s Federal Bailout

Posted on | January 22, 2010 | 17 Comments

The nation’s largest abortion provider will be opening a new office in Fitchburg, Mass. — Da Tech Guy’s hometown — thanks to your tax dollars:

FITCHBURG — The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts will open an office on Main Street in Fitchburg this spring, with the goal of reducing the area’s high teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates, according to the agency’s chief executive officer, Dianne Luby. . . .
“We want to be on Main Street in Fitchburg. We want to be in a location that’s easily accessible along major transportation routes, where people will be able to get high-quality care in a nicely redone office space,” Luby said. . . .
Services will be provided at no cost to those who cannot pay, Luby said. . . .
Abortion services will not be offered, because Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts is opening the Fitchburg office using federal grant money it received in December, which carries the stipulation that abortions will not be provided, Luby said. (Emphasis added.)

Bovine excrement. The new office won’t provide abortions, but you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll provide referrals to Planned Parenthood’s abortion services elsewhere.

Beyond that, a basic principle of economics is that money is fungible. If Planned Parenthood gets a $1 million federal grant, that’s $1 million they don’t have to raise from their own donor base. And the fact is that contributions to Planned Parenthood have been down, in part because of the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme:

The left-leaning Picower Foundation gave away almost $213 million since 1999, according to a philanthropy database.
The giant foundation had the misfortune to choose Madoff to manage its more than $1 billion in assets.
A sizeable chunk of its funding has gone to abortion groups, including NARAL ($3.2 million), Center for Reproductive Rights ($2.5 million), Planned Parenthood ($2.4 million), and Center for Reproductive Law and Policy ($625,000).

So giving federal grant money to Abortion, Inc. — let’s not mince words about what Planned Parenthood really is — is a very timely bailout.

And why was it so important for Planned Parenthood to have a clinic in Fitchburg, Mass.? There are a growing number of Hispanic immigrants — the city’s population was 15% Hispanic in 2006, according to a Census estimate — and Hispanics have higher teen-pregnancy rates.

As I’ve explained before, I have a deep suspicion toward “teen pregnancy crisis” alarmists. Teen pregnancy rates are now actually much lower than they were in the 1950s, the Golden Age of Family Values. The problem, as Maggie Gallagher has pointed out, is not an increase of teen pregnancy but a decline of marriage:

“What we have called our ‘teen pregnancy’ crisis is not really about teenagers. Nor is it really about pregnancy. It is about the decline of marriage. . . .
“What has changed most in recent decades is not who gets pregnant, but who gets married . . . The single biggest change in recent decades has been the declining proportion of pregnant single teens who marry.”

In point of fact, according to official data (Powerpoint download) Massachusetts is below the U.S. average in both its overall fertility rate (55.6 Mass. vs. 66.7 U.S.) and its teen birth rate (21.7 Mass. vs. 40.4 U.S.). The total fertility rate (average lifetime births per woman)  in Massachusetts is 1.74 — which is 17% below the “replacement level” of 2.1 — and if it weren’t for pockets of higher fertility like the Hispanics of Fitchburg, the state’s demographic decline would be even more stark.

Instead of funding Planned Parenthood’s misanthropic agenda in an unsubtle effort to suppress Hispanic birth rates, Massachusetts ought to be encouraging marriage. But the only kind of marriage Massachusetts cares about now is gay marriage, and so Planned Parenthood gets a federal grant for an “easily accessible” Fitchburg office.

The irony? One of the reasons Scott Brown is now the 41st vote in the Senate is because Martha Coakley lashed herself to the mast in support of federally-funded abortion, inciting the hostility of working-class Catholics, which was why the “bellwether” town of Fitchburg went 59% for Brown.

Pro-life wins elections, and yet tax money pays for the Culture of Death.

UPDATE: Dan Collins calls my attention to these statistics:

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has released its annual report for fiscal year 2007-2008. The document shows the nation’s largest abortion business is getting bigger as it showed an increase of five percent more abortions and increased taxpayer funding.
According to Planned Parenthood’s latest report, abortions increased to 305,310 abortions up from 289,750 in 2006. . . .
The total government grants and contracts received by PPFA affiliates from government sources including state, local and federal governments, increased from $337 million to $350 million. (Emphasis added.)

Meanwhile, Da Tech Guy reports a backlash from the people of Fitchburg:

Six members of the City Council voted Thursday to draft a resolution urging the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts to abandon its plan to locate in Fitchburg, after the organization announced plans to open an office on Main Street earlier this week. . . .
State Rep. Stephen DiNatale signed on to the late-filed petition calling for a resolution, and said he planned to sit down with Planned Parenthood officials and explain to them why Fitchburg is not the right community for them to come to. . . .
“We do not need them on Main Street,” DiNatale said.

Last Sunday, I talked to Rep. DiNatale at St. Anthony of Padua Church. He’s a pro-life, blue-collar Catholic Democrat who understands the importance of representing the people who elected him — and most of those people voted against Martha Coakley’s Culture of Death agenda.

Category: Abortion, Massachusetts, Planned Parenthood

Comments

17 Responses to “Planned Parenthood’s Federal Bailout”

  1. Joe
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 2:52 pm

    Funny that the Racist decriers over at Little Green Footballs never go after Planned Parenthood given its founder made clear her goal was to reduce the number of Negros and Southern and Eastern Europeans in America.

    “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
    social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
    successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
    We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
    population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
    it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
    — Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
    Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith
    Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in
    Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth
    Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

    “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
    — Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control . New York: New
    York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.

    “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent
    Multiplication of this bad stock.”
    — Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .
    “[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden
    of unwanted children … [Women must have the right] to live … to love
    … to be lazy … to be an unmarried mother … to create … to destroy
    … The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order
    … The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members
    is to kill it.”
    — Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.
    Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,
    1922.

  2. Joe
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 9:52 am

    Funny that the Racist decriers over at Little Green Footballs never go after Planned Parenthood given its founder made clear her goal was to reduce the number of Negros and Southern and Eastern Europeans in America.

    “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
    social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
    successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
    We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
    population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
    it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
    — Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
    Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith
    Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in
    Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth
    Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

    “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
    — Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control . New York: New
    York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.

    “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent
    Multiplication of this bad stock.”
    — Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .
    “[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden
    of unwanted children … [Women must have the right] to live … to love
    … to be lazy … to be an unmarried mother … to create … to destroy
    … The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order
    … The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members
    is to kill it.”
    — Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.
    Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,
    1922.

  3. …and the sides are taken « DaTechguy's Blog
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:25 am

    […] We don’t? It’s not like they’ve been around for nearly a century, but if Joe wants to know perhaps he can ask Abby Johnson. Johnson said she became involved with the clinic “to help women and … [do] the right thing.” The idea of increasing abortion numbers to increase revenue was repugnant to her. She said that ideally the facility’s director would provide “so much family planning and so much education that there is not a demand for abortion.” […]

  4. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 4:22 pm

    The population of Massachusetts is also declining because young people can’t afford to live here (hello, insane taxation). Any one who wants to have a family moves to New Hampshire.

    As for the abortion issue: Planned Parenthood puts its services online, so you can find out which clinics perform abortions more easily than you can find out which Trader Joe’s stores sell wine. Also, let’s be real: “easily accessible” is PP code for “easy to get from this one to the other, easily accesible abortion clinics”.

    And why was it so important for Planned Parenthood to have a clinic in Fitchburg, Mass.?

    Add to that: because PP wants to push itself into conservative and suburban areas. This is happening with its clinics and its explicit middle school sex ed programme (everything your 11-year-old does not need to know about oral); they start off by “solving” inner-city “problems”, then start moving into areas that don’t actually have this problem.

    Massachusetts ought to be encouraging marriage. But the only kind of marriage Massachusetts cares about now is gay marriage

    While you’re bringing out the demographic data, Stacy, why not mention that practically no one in Massachusetts gets married (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/mar&div.pdf), especially under the age of 30?

    (I’ll also note that in MA, insurance plans are required to cover in-vitro fertilisation. The brain trusts around here think that your teens, twenties, and thirties ought to be spent in casual dating and even more casual sex, with abortion as the only possible option when pregnancy results. Then when you finally hit 40 and want kids, IVF is, for many, the only route. They also run around going to yoga classes to get in touch with their bodies.)

  5. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 11:22 am

    The population of Massachusetts is also declining because young people can’t afford to live here (hello, insane taxation). Any one who wants to have a family moves to New Hampshire.

    As for the abortion issue: Planned Parenthood puts its services online, so you can find out which clinics perform abortions more easily than you can find out which Trader Joe’s stores sell wine. Also, let’s be real: “easily accessible” is PP code for “easy to get from this one to the other, easily accesible abortion clinics”.

    And why was it so important for Planned Parenthood to have a clinic in Fitchburg, Mass.?

    Add to that: because PP wants to push itself into conservative and suburban areas. This is happening with its clinics and its explicit middle school sex ed programme (everything your 11-year-old does not need to know about oral); they start off by “solving” inner-city “problems”, then start moving into areas that don’t actually have this problem.

    Massachusetts ought to be encouraging marriage. But the only kind of marriage Massachusetts cares about now is gay marriage

    While you’re bringing out the demographic data, Stacy, why not mention that practically no one in Massachusetts gets married (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/mar&div.pdf), especially under the age of 30?

    (I’ll also note that in MA, insurance plans are required to cover in-vitro fertilisation. The brain trusts around here think that your teens, twenties, and thirties ought to be spent in casual dating and even more casual sex, with abortion as the only possible option when pregnancy results. Then when you finally hit 40 and want kids, IVF is, for many, the only route. They also run around going to yoga classes to get in touch with their bodies.)

  6. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 4:23 pm

    Um… I apparently don’t know how to close my html tags. 🙂

  7. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 11:23 am

    Um… I apparently don’t know how to close my html tags. 🙂

  8. Robert Stacy McCain
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 4:28 pm

    1. Roxeanne, it was a pleasure to meet you in Boston. Did that guy you were with Tuesday night marry you yet, or is he gay?

    2. Are you going to blog about this story?

    3. You can leave your tags open on my blog anytime, IYKWIMAITYD.

  9. Robert Stacy McCain
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 11:28 am

    1. Roxeanne, it was a pleasure to meet you in Boston. Did that guy you were with Tuesday night marry you yet, or is he gay?

    2. Are you going to blog about this story?

    3. You can leave your tags open on my blog anytime, IYKWIMAITYD.

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    January 22nd, 2010 @ 1:25 pm

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  11. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 6:38 pm

    It was a pleasure to meet you as well. Many, many thanks for introducing me around. 🙂

    I’m slowly working my way through today’s Blog for Life. After that, it’s on to seeing how Citizen’s United may or may not have made a mess out of a litigation plan that I’m setting up (post-Senate campaign election law issues). Wednesday, I’m heading to Florida to visit family.

    Sometime in there, I can squeeze in Fitchburg PP blogging…??

    As for that nice young man – I’ve only just met him! If you are getting gay vibes, though, do let me know.

  12. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 1:38 pm

    It was a pleasure to meet you as well. Many, many thanks for introducing me around. 🙂

    I’m slowly working my way through today’s Blog for Life. After that, it’s on to seeing how Citizen’s United may or may not have made a mess out of a litigation plan that I’m setting up (post-Senate campaign election law issues). Wednesday, I’m heading to Florida to visit family.

    Sometime in there, I can squeeze in Fitchburg PP blogging…??

    As for that nice young man – I’ve only just met him! If you are getting gay vibes, though, do let me know.

  13. datechguy
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 7:29 pm

    Oh I was under the impression that you were together for some time.

    Young men of good morals all over the state should start cheering and improving themselves at once.

  14. datechguy
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 2:29 pm

    Oh I was under the impression that you were together for some time.

    Young men of good morals all over the state should start cheering and improving themselves at once.

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