Annual Reports of Planned Parenthood (click here)
Planned Parenthood is no different than any other non-profit organization in that it has to report income and balance sheets to the government.
Women need health services. Someone has to provide it. Women have to be safe. Abortion is legal under the law since Roe v. Wade. I don't see that changing. Planned Parenthood is victim to the right wing religious fanatics.
Supreme Court decisions stand as law because the decisions are considered constitutional. If the US federal government were to outlaw abortions today, they would still be unconstitutional. It is no different than if same sex marriage was outlawed at the federal level, it would unconstitutional.
It was already tried in "The Defense of Marriage Act" and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
The anti-abortion groups are political entities that try to create the faux front of morality. There is no room for politics in a woman's vagina. There is a need in the USA for abortion services. We know as a fact. Roe v Wade was provided to the women of the USA to relieve women's deaths at back street abortion providers. There simply isn't going to be a federal law that is going to change that decision. Women would return to illegal abortions and they would die all over again. No Supreme Court is going to allow that.
Keeping women alive is a health issue. It just is. Now, until the political right wing mandates chastity belts and enforces them by police action and prosecution, there will be abortions.
The anti-abortion groups need to stop being silly and realize they are putting women's lives at risk. The USA does not have a shortage of babies either.
If there is any law broken by Planned Parenthood I would expect those responsible to be called before a judge. Breaking the law is not what Planned Parenthood is about. Planned Parenthood is about living within the law and protecting women. Protecting women is important and vital to the country. Anyone that violates non-profit laws should expect the brevity of the law to be visiting them.
Allowing women to die at the hand of back street abortionists is immoral. Women should never feel that desperate about life in a free world democracy. The USA is a democracy with separation of church and state. Women have rights to their own bodies and that is law. The political right wing needs to get over the fact they have a completely irresponsible position to the needs of American women.
There is a reason why the right wing groups have put together videos to smear Planned Parenthood. The reason is there is nothing illegal to their operations.
If Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast has the most healthy balance sheet within the organization it is because there is high demand for the services provided by Planned Parenthood. The higher demand by women, the more fetal tissue is within their inventory to provide for research.
I didn't notice a sales person knocking on doors to solicit women to abortions and providing a fee for their service in fulfilling orders from their customers. When that happens there might be a legitimate complaint.
Planned Parenthood provides vital services in taking care of women and providing fetal tissue for research. I wish the State of Florida was as vigilant of women's health as Planned Parenthood. Today in Florida, women die because of lack of health insurance. Yes, it still goes on under a Republican governor.
