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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (890845)	9/30/2015 9:53:07 PM
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The rape and the life of the mother exceptions are for when the federal funding is official and direct. But that doesn't represent all the federal funding for abortion. When you give the largest abortion provider in the country 40% of its funds, then you are freeing up funds to be used for abortions even if the funds are given for other purposes. a small, about 3%, of PP funding is used for abortion No. Their claim, which may be accurate and probably at least isn't widely inaccurate in a certain technical sense, is that 3% of their activities are abortions. Not 3% of the money. Abortion if far more involved and expensive then passing out condoms, or giving an STD test. Apparently about 10-12% of Planned Parenthood's clients receive an abortion. A noticeably larger percentage of what PP spends is for abortions. Estimates vary widely, so I wouldn't expect a specific estimate to be reliable, but with a tenth or more of its clients getting an abortion and with abortion being the most expensive thing it does for people the percentage would be a large multiple of 3%. ------------------------------ The 3 percent figure is an artifice and a dodge, but even taking it on its own terms, it’s not much of a defense. Only Planned Parenthood would think saying that they only kill babies 3 percent of the time is something to brag about. How much credit would we give someone for saying he only drives drunk 3 percent of the time, or only cheats on business trips 3 percent of the time, or only hits his wife during 3 percent of domestic disputes? The 3 percent factoid is crafted to obscure the reality of Planned Parenthood’s business. The group performs about 330,000 abortions a year, or roughly 30 percent of all the abortions in the country. By its own accounting in its 2013-2014 annual report, it provides about as many abortions as Pap tests (380,000). The group does more breast exams and provides more breast-care services (490,000), but not by that much. The 3 percent figure is derived by counting abortion as just another service like much less consequential services. So abortion is considered a service no different than a pregnancy test (1.1 million), even though a box with two pregnancy tests can be procured from the local drugstore for less than $10. By Planned Parenthood’s math, a woman who gets an abortion but also a pregnancy test, an STD test and some contraceptives has received four services, and only 25 percent of them are abortion. This is a little like performing an abortion and giving a woman an aspirin, and saying only half of what you do is abortion. nypost.com