Spoiler Alert: Safety is Not on the List
One can often determine a corporation’s priorities by where it spends its money. Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report is eye-opening in this regard. These numbers are in millions (see note at top left.)
Planned Parenthood “expenses” include the following listed under “Program Services”
$39.3 million for public policy...to make sure it doesn’t have to spend any money upgrading facilities to meet safety standards.
$22.8 million to ‘engage communities’…I am not sure what that means, but it sounds like advertising, and it is apparently very expensive and more important than upgrading to meet safety standards.
$78.4 million to ‘increase access’… scratch “legal, safe, and rare” rhetoric. Replace with “legal and accessible.”
$23.7 million to ‘build advocacy capacity’… again advocate for access, not safety. Any regulations, I repeat ANY, are referred to as TRAP laws. But please don’t fall into the trap of thinking that just because Planned Parenthood never advocates for safety in its clinics, that anybody who does is trying to take away choice.
$3.5 million to ‘renew leadership’… whatever that means. I am certain no other ‘health care’ organization has $3.5 million for whatever the heck this is.
$3.8 million to ‘refresh our brand’…more advertising at taxpayer expense. I would love it if even that ‘piddly’ amount of their $1.2 billion yearly budget were spent on addressing safety violations.
Under “Supporting Services” are:
$164.4 million for management and general
$67.7 million for fundraising…yikes!
Finally “Other Expenses”:
$2.2 million in ‘payments to related organizations’…this is down from 19.1 million the previous year. I will research this.
$1 million “non-program related”…again, who knows. More research soon.
That is a lot of ‘expenses,’ none of which are designated to improve the safety of Planned Parenthood clinics. Because Planned Parenthood does not consider safety a priority. If you think Planned Parenthood clinics are safe enough, please read my other blog entries linked below and those I am about to write. Trust me, this could be a full time job.
One of the most shocking indictments against Planned Parenthood’s priorities is revealed in its bottom line:
Excess revenue over expenses in 2015 of $61.2 million and
Net assets at the end of the June 2015 of 1,484.8 million, that is over 1.48 billion!
Planned Parenthood’s claims that increased safety standards would be an undue burden on women or close down Texas clinics was simply an attempt by a greedy corporation to protect its immense profits. Shame on all who allowed it to succeed.
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