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Published: May 25, 2009
“This is a big deal”
Planned Parenthood launches drive to stop funding cuts as California’s budget crisis reaches disastrous proportions, pro-lifers see massive deficit as rare chance to defund abortion giant
Now that California voters have overwhelmingly rejected a package of budget measures and the state faces a more than $20 billion deficit, Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state are sending out urgent email alerts to their supporters pleading with them to contact the legislature to prevent any reduction in the millions of taxpayer money Planned Parenthood receives each year.
 On Tuesday, May 19, voters rejected by huge margins four ballot initiatives proposed by the governor and the legislature to narrow the budget gap. After the measures failed, state officials said this year’s deficit could reach as high as $24 billion and that the state could run out of money as soon as July. Two days after the special election, Planned Parenthood affiliates in California began sending emails to their supporters imploring them to contact their legislators immediately.
“We need your immediate help because the Governor is attempting to solve the state's budget crisis by cutting family planning,” wrote Darrah D. Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of San Diego & Riverside Counties in one such email message.
“We are at a crisis point,” Johnson’s message continued. “It is critical that your elected officials hear from you today and tomorrow in as many ways as possible! Please take five minutes of your time today and help us save services for thousands of women and families in California. We need you to pick up the phone today and tomorrow and place a call to your elected officials in addition to sending them a fax. Call your legislator today!”
According to the website of the California Attorney General, Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties had 2006 revenues of $33,179,930 and assets totaling $24,465,790.
Pro-lifers elsewhere in California note that Planned Parenthood affiliates in their area also show millions of dollars in revenue, and say they see the state’s deepening financial crisis as an opportune time to cut state spending or defund Planned Parenthood altogether.
“While most companies struggle to survive in the current state of our economy, recent annual reports show that business has never been better for Planned Parenthood and profits have never been so high,” wrote Gingi Edmonds, a 23-year-old pro-life activist from Hanford, in a May 21 email message sent to readers of her blog, Gingi Edmonds ProLife Opinion. “In a press release last weekend, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards admitted that clinics like Mar Monte, California have seen as much as a 21 percent jump in the number of women they perform abortions on in a weekly basis.”
“Our budget in California is wacked,” continued Edmonds. “With the continued global recession we face a certain $15.4 billion shortfall. This is resulting in teacher lay-offs, library closures and reductions in prescription drug coverage for senior citizens. With this in mind, it's obvious that Planned Parenthood which netted more than one billion dollars in clear profits last year – and which is now strapping 21% more women into the cervical scraping stirrups -- clearly needs no help from taxpayers.”
According to Edmonds, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger already has included funding cuts for Planned Parenthood in his proposed revisions to the state budget. “This is a big deal,” wrote Edmonds. “We're talking about the nation's largest abortion provider losing 90% of its funding in the State of California.”
Edmonds points to the “emergency emails” being sent out by Planned Parenthood affiliates “begging pro-abort activists to contact their legislators and elected officials and plead for a halt to the budget cut.”
“Well guess what pro-lifers?” says Edmonds in response. “There are a lot more of us than there are of them, according to four recent national polls. We need to call our elected officials in California RIGHT NOW and demand these long overdue budget cuts that will stop the funding of this abortion giant, and potentially save 73,000+ lives that are currently marked for death on our dime.”
To find your legislator if you wish to send a message on the subject, Click Here.
To contact Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Phone: (916) 445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Mail: Office of the Governor, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814
To email the governor, Click Here.
Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 2:02 AM By Charles O'Connell
One of the most astute observers of the political-economics of abortion, Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, remarked on just this phenomenon in "On the Trail to Rodham and Gomorrah", 10/11/07 (search terms "road rodham Gomorrah"). The supply of abortionists is continually dwindling, not due to "violence against 'clinic' workers" (abortion facility workplace violence is so negligible as to fail to warrant reporting). The industry is perpetually in financial crisis. Abortions were $300-350 early on but the cost charged hasn't risen in 35 years. Demand isn't stable, but falls into the "marginal", non-essential category. " Since day one, the abortion industry has pushed this idea that when a woman does not want to be pregnant she will crawl through hell on broken glass to get an abortion. … For that to be true, it would also have to be true that the cost of abortion does not significantly affect the abortion rate. The financial publication, Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXVI, April 1988, produced a study about the relationship between abortion cost and abortion rates and found that, 'The significant inverse relationship between the price of abortions and the abortion rate confirms that the fundamental law of demand is applicable to abortions.' " Other evidence confirms applicability of the law of supply & demand to abortion.
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 2:02 AM By Charles O'Connell
Enter the Obama Administration: "at the moment national healthcare becomes a reality, the cost to the taxpayer for an abortion that now costs about $350 will, instantly, be many times that amount." Private cash payments for abortion are still about $350, insured payments about $3000 (9 times more). As soon as universal health care comes in, the unfortunate coincidence of insurmountable political majorities in Congress, newly unlimited profitability and the economic downturn means an ever-increasing threat to the lives of America's pre-born children. Mark Crutcher, Life Dynamics, "On the Trail to Rodham and Gomorrah", 10/11/07 (search terms "road rodham Gomorrah")
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 5:47 AM By Fr. M.P.
Save lives and save money and follow the natural law which pleases God. A true win-win-win. Stop abortion funding now.
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 7:12 AM By Mark from PA
The government should not be funding Planned Parenthood. Why should tax-payers have to support the abortion business?
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 8:08 AM By JLS
Amazing that we're seeing now how Planned Parenthood is not merely one among many vote brokers, but a principal in the political game.
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 10:53 AM By Wynette
Pro-life supporters across the state have been asking the California Catholic Conference and the California Pro-life Council to help Eliminate Abortion Funding from the state budget for over a year now. While the abortion industry has effectively rallied their supporters to ask for more money, our Pro-life Lobbyists have chosen to remain silent while the killing continues! The recent Catholic Lobby day failed to even include the Backgrounder on abortion funding! Over $33 million of our state tax dollars are spent each year to provide 90,000 "free" abortions. Surely, as more Americans now consider themselves to be pro-life, the concept of using our dwindling state funds to truly help the poor and needy, rather than killing innocent unborn children, would be well-received by the voter. If only our pro-life leaders would awaken from their complicit silent slumber on this issue! Until then, please contact your state legislators directly, urging them to Eliminate Abortion Funding and discontinue subsidizing the lucrative abortion industry! Every citizen of California is participating in the killing through our tax dollar. Lord have mercy on us all! If you are interested in helping, please contact me at wsills@succeed.net Thank you Gingi for being a courageous Voice for the Voiceless! This 23 year pro-life activist from Hanford has much to teach the veteran, well-paid, pro-life advocates here in Sacramento!
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 11:49 AM By JLS
Charles O'Connell, that information needs to be put on billboards.
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 2:52 PM By JOHN
The abortion industry (PP) will insist that with the economic downturn, the "need" for abortion is even greater, and their budget must be increased rather than decreased.
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 3:05 PM By Camille
Interesting, isn't it. The Governor sought to raid the bank account of millions of First Five dollars by initiative 1D, but he doesn't want to touch the funds for Planned Parenthood. The Governor, in fact, wants federal bailout millions for "education." Since neither he nor the Democrats believe that academic education is worthwhile for the majority of California's students, one wonders what type of educational programs he wants our tax dollars for?
Is it lifestyle brainwashing? Is it for health care school based clinics which, in the main, are staffed with Planned Parenthood ideologues?
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 4:20 PM By Jan England
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Pray, fast and act!
Peace & Prayers,
Jan England
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 5:20 PM By Charles O'Connell
Great work, Wynette, and so right of you to take care of your aged parent first. (Great example, that the duties of our ordinary states of life come first.) This article highlights how Ned Dolejsi's excuse at the California Catholic Conference that there's no pro-life influence possible, is fast dwindling. (I'll be sending the Conference a case of Chicken Noodle Soup.) If the Conference won't step up to the plate, to strike while the iron is hot, their staff's pro-life credentials need to be called into question. Here's a research routine - at Google, restrict search results to any given site by prefacing it with site: (no spaces). Then try using the California Catholic Conference's website in such a search term, both with and without a key term like abortion. I've just tried it - with no term other than the website, I get gross 1,240 results. With abortion, 266. I'm not sure that is the best approach. In the home page article on "Deepening Recession Adds to State Budget Woes", none of those terms. Navigating the top menu, the bottom item under News & Analyst is Reverence for Life - we always appreciate Carol Hogan's work. Between the Nov. election wrap-up & May, only 3 pro-life articles. Many websites have old, residual pages that were once relevant but are no longer; I take the scarcity of current, topical pro-life content on the CCC site to mean that many of those 266 of 1,240 pages with the topic are likely old and stale.
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Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 5:20 PM By Charles O'Connell
About legislative concerns on the California Catholic Conference website, while there are no abortion-related bills of concern listed under Take Action - Legislative Priorities - Major and Significant Legislation, the "Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program" bill is in the pro-life area. But what a surprise to see this on the same page with the "Farmers' markets: electronic benefit transfers" bill, for which the reason for concern listed is the "need to strive to enhance access to healthy food in underserved communities". Objective evidence is easily obtainable that the abortion industry targets both African-American and Hispanic minorities. Promoting access to health-food when minorities' teen-age children are targets of the child-predator enablement industry is bizarre and ludicrous.
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Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:23 AM By Kenneth M. Fisher
Wynette,
Do you honestly consider the "California Catholic Conference" to be a Pro-Life lobbyist?
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founder & Chairman
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
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Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:40 PM By lome
Everyone please write to our dear Terminator.
Nobody knows how long this economic crises going to last. Californians are asking you to stop
Unnecessary spending. Californians are telling you that it is about time to put morality, normalcy,
Sanity back to California.
What kind of Government that gives monies for the killing of the unborn? , what kind of government that gives monies for the killing of the aged and handicapped. What about giving monies to make body repair kit from human fetuses?
Governor, please I am begging you. DEBUNK PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
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Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:05 PM By lome
Wake up California,shortness of food is already here.Don't let these irresponsible people still make us support their Hellenistic lifestyle to dump their poor unwanted babies for you to be an accomplish in this dastardly killing of the unborn.
Killing of the aged?
making body repair kit from human fetuses?
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Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:18 AM By Talitha Kumi
Time for Maria to become a true and influential Catholic. She would do well to imitate her name sake.
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Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:24 AM By JLS
Iome, what shortness of food? Examples?
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