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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (878390)	8/6/2015 4:44:21 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Recommended By POKERSAM TideGlider Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578294

Only 3% of their health services are abortion services......FALSE. To arrive at that 3 percent figure, Planned Parenthood does some fudging and misdirection. Planned Parenthood depreciates the role abortion plays by defining its “services” in such a way that it avoids accounting for their time and expense. A single pregnancy test is designated by Planned Parenthood as a “service” and thus given equal weight to a far more time-consuming and expensive surgical abortion procedure, another Planned Parenthood “service.” Likewise, each pack of birth control pills is considered a service and carries the same weight in the calculation as an abortion. Using this rubric, Planned Parenthood justifies the claim the President of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, has made that abortion is, “a very small part of what we do.” [v] In terms of time, patients, and revenue, abortion is far more to Planned Parenthood than 3 percent. (And several recently unsealed “whistleblower” lawsuits call into question whether the 3 percent claim is true even under Planned Parenthood’s formula, as the lawsuits allege over-reporting of other “services.”[vi]) Though you won’t hear Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards offer this statistic in an interview, her organization’s own materials acknowledge that 11 to 12 percent of its patients receive abortion services.[vii] Although a more honest depiction than a breakdown by “services,” this figure still does not capture what abortion means to Planned Parenthood’s bottom-line. When it comes to telling America how much money it makes from abortions, Planned Parenthood is dead silent. It only takes simple math, however, to come up with a conservative estimate. According to Planned Parenthood’s latest available annual report, it performed 329,445 abortions in 2010.[viii] Its website states that a surgical abortion generally costs between $300 and $950 in the first trimester[ix] and a chemical abortion costs between $300 and $800.[x] Thus, using its lowest advertised price of $300, Planned Parenthood made—at minimum—$98,833,500 from abortions in 2010. Nearly 99 million dollars from abortion is already a substantial figure. Considering even first trimester abortions can cost two to three times that amount, Planned Parenthood is assuredly generating much more revenue from its abortion business. That is anything but trivial. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/05/false-abortion-is-only-3-of-planned-parenthoods-services/

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (878390)	8/6/2015 4:50:51 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 1578294

You've been grubered again.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (878390)	8/6/2015 4:52:17 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578294

Is there a reason churches are supported by govmint thru tax freedom.....?? DUMB...even for you Joey.... "US churches received an official federal income tax exemption in 1894, and they have been unofficially tax-exempt since the country's founding. All 50 US states and the District of Columbia exempt churches from paying property tax." Also, see McCullouch v. Maryland...an 1819 USSC decision...."the power to tax is the power to destroy". Keeping the government out of church finances maintains the separation of church and state enshrined in the Constitution. See the First Amendment....