America’s largest abortion chain, Planned
Parenthood, claims over and over and over again
that abortion is only 3% of the services
that they offer.
“That’s your self-reported abortion statistic.”
“3%  of all the procedures we provide.”
It’s in their annual report.
It’s on their website.
And their supporters say it all the time.
“And abortions only comprise 3% of Planned
Parenthood’s health services.”
“Abortion services only account for about
3%.”
“Because only 3% of what Planned Parenthood
does is abortions.”
“3% of patients visit Planned Parenthood
for a safe and legal abortion.”
Here's why that statistic is completely bogus,
and why the senior editor of the online magazine, Slate,
said that the 3 percent stat was the,
quote, “most meaningless abortion statistic ever,”
and why the Washington Post fact
checker gave the 3 percent stat three pinocchios,
marking it as, quote, “Very Misleading.”
Let’s look at the numbers.
According to their own annual report, Planned
Parenthood commits over 300,000 abortions per year.
Last year alone, they did 323,999 abortions,
which averages to 887 abortions per day,
37 abortions per hour,
1 abortion every 97
seconds.
Again, Planned Parenthood commits 1 abortion
every 97 seconds.
But how much of what Planned Parenthood does
is abortion?
Well, let’s divide the number of abortions
they do in a year
by the number of patients they see in a year.
323,999 abortions for 2.5 million patients
means that 1 in 8 patients who walk into Planned Parenthood will undergo an abortion.
Not 1 in 33, Elizabeth Warren, 1 in 8.
It’s easy to see where Planned Parenthood’s
priorities are.
They commit 160 abortions for every 1 adoption
referral.
Though Planned Parenthood constantly talks
about their breast exams and pap tests, they
only do less than 1% of the nation’s pap
tests, and 1.8% of the nation’s breast exams,
while they do 30.6%, a third, of the nation’s
abortions.
But that’s a Public Relations problem.
So Planned Parenthood came up with a creative
way to make their big business, abortion,
look very . . . small.
To get the 3% figure, Planned Parenthood divides
abortions by the number of so-called “services,”
which they define as a “discrete clinical
interaction.”
And they count all these services equally,
regardless of the cost, time, or effort it
takes to render that service.
So an entire abortion procedure, which can
cost from 390 to 1500 dollars, is counted
the same as a pregnancy test, which a girl
could get at a pharmacy for 10 dollars.
In this way, Planned Parenthood is able to
count 9.4 million services.
Divide 323,999 abortions by 9.4 million services,
and they get 3%.
It’s easy to see why this math is completely
ridiculous.
Say a woman goes to Planned Parenthood to
get an abortion.
She gets her pregnancy test, the abortion
procedure, an STI test, and some contraceptives.
In one visit she gets 4 services, 1 of which
is the actual abortion.
So Planned Parenthood would say that abortion
was only 25% of what they did for that woman,
who came into the clinic only for the abortion.
Well, by this math, even if 100% of Planned
Parenthood patients got an abortion, they
would still say abortion is only 25% of their
services.
Such distorted calculations could be used
to obscure the purpose of any business.
It would be like the NFL saying that because
they sold 5 million hot dogs in a season and
there were only 256 games, football is only
.005% of what they do.
Or it’d be like a steakhouse saying, “Actually,
steak is only a very small percentage of what
we serve, because we also serve salad, mashed
potatoes, French fries, beer, wine, soda,
water, butter, salt, pepper, ketchup, toothpicks,
and breath mints.”
We’d say, “Yeah, right. You’re a steakhouse.”
Just like Planned Parenthood is an abortion
corporation.
