1 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:08,260 Imagine there’s an organization that claims to stand for one thing but actually stands for another. 2 00:00:08,260 --> 00:00:12,820 Imagine this organization calls itself a “health care provider,” but it’s not involved 3 00:00:12,820 --> 00:00:16,300 in preserving life; it’s involved in ending it. 4 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:21,300 And imagine that you help finance this organization, whether you want to or not. 5 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:22,980 Well, you don’t have to imagine. 6 00:00:22,980 --> 00:00:24,940 This organization exists. 7 00:00:24,940 --> 00:00:27,780 And it has a name with which you are very familiar. 8 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:32,960 It calls itself Planned Parenthood, and the deception begins right there. 9 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:38,560 Planned Parenthood doesn’t help people plan for parenthood; it helps people escape it. 10 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,000 And that’s only the start of its deceptions. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,040 Planned Parenthood tells you it’s one of the nation’s “leading women’s health 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,660 care providers,” but it provides very little healthcare. 13 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:52,280 It tells you it provides adoption referrals, but the only adoption advice it is likely 14 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,660 to offer is, “Google it.” 15 00:00:54,660 --> 00:00:59,120 Most deceptive of all, Planned Parenthood tells you that abortions are a small part 16 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:04,190 of what it does, but it performs more abortions than anyone else in America. 17 00:01:04,190 --> 00:01:05,659 Here are the facts. 18 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:11,140 The folks who run Planned Parenthood boast that they provide life-saving cancer screenings. 19 00:01:11,140 --> 00:01:12,300 And they do. 20 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:17,180 Just not that many of them - less than 2 percent of the nation’s screenings each year. 21 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:19,900 They talk about providing breast exams. 22 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:25,840 They do, but just not that many of them – again, less 2 percent of the nation’s total. 23 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,780 They talk about providing ultrasounds, but the last thing they want to do is show a pregnant 24 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:33,600 woman an image of her growing child. 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:34,929 So, they don’t. 26 00:01:34,929 --> 00:01:41,429 The ultrasound is only for Planned Parenthood’s use – to better facilitate patients’ abortions. 27 00:01:41,429 --> 00:01:47,320 In other words, abortion, not women’s health, is Planned Parenthood’s reason for being. 28 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:54,280 Every year it does more than a third of all abortions in America – over 321,000 of them. 29 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:01,260 That’s equivalent to every inhabitant of St. Louis or Pittsburgh – wiped out, every year. 30 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:05,240 That’s over 880 abortions every day. 31 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,560 An abortion every 98 seconds. 32 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,220 And while the number of total abortions in the US is going down, Planned Parenthood’s 33 00:02:13,220 --> 00:02:21,580 market share of abortions has increased from 23 percent in 2006 to 34 percent in 2016. 34 00:02:21,580 --> 00:02:26,220 So, when Planned Parenthood says its devoted to women’s reproductive rights, what it 35 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:31,180 means is it’s devoted to aborting as many babies as possible. 36 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:33,480 And here’s the biggest deception of them all. 37 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,620 Planned Parenthood would like you to believe that abortion is only 3 percent 38 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:40,640 of the total services they provide. 39 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:43,430 3 percent. Doesn’t sound like very much, does it? 40 00:02:43,430 --> 00:02:45,790 But here’s how they get to that 3 percent. 41 00:02:45,790 --> 00:02:50,360 They count every “discrete clinical interaction” as its own service. 42 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,200 What is a “discrete clinical interaction”? 43 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,720 Pretty much anything you do from the moment you walk into one of their clinics. 44 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,310 I’ll give you an example. 45 00:02:59,310 --> 00:03:04,040 Let’s say a woman comes into Planned Parenthood for one service — an abortion. 46 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:09,120 Before providing an abortion, Planned Parenthood has to confirm that the woman is pregnant, right? 47 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,320 So, they administer another service — a pregnancy test. 48 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,180 That’s two services! 49 00:03:14,180 --> 00:03:18,300 Then, after the abortion, on your way out the door, they hand you a prescription. 50 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:20,160 That’s three services! 51 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,820 And there are many other services provided during the abortion process that Planned Parenthood 52 00:03:24,820 --> 00:03:28,020 claims as “discrete clinical interactions.” 53 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:35,200 In this way, Planned Parenthood is able to rack up 9.5 million of these so-called “services” 54 00:03:35,219 --> 00:03:36,459 each year. 55 00:03:36,459 --> 00:03:43,819 Divide the number of abortions, 321,000, by 9.5 million, and you get 3 percent. 56 00:03:43,819 --> 00:03:49,909 Even the Washington Post, a Planned Parenthood ally, declared this 3 percent figure “very misleading.” 57 00:03:49,909 --> 00:03:54,959 Rich Lowry of National Review nicely illustrated this phony statistic: It would be like Major 58 00:03:54,959 --> 00:04:02,850 League Baseball saying they sell 20 million hot dogs, but only play 2,430 games, so baseball 59 00:04:02,850 --> 00:04:06,420 is only .012 percent of what they do. 60 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:10,240 So, why does Planned Parenthood engage in all these deceptions? 61 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,599 Well, as they say, follow the money. 62 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:16,790 According to federal law, the United States government is not permitted to spend taxpayer 63 00:04:16,790 --> 00:04:18,400 money on abortions. 64 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:23,320 But Planned Parenthood receives over $500 million a year in federal funding. 65 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,100 Not for abortions, mind you. 66 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:28,460 But for those other “discreet clinical interactions.” 67 00:04:28,470 --> 00:04:33,970 Over the last 10 years, its annual clientele has dropped 23 percent, almost a quarter. 68 00:04:33,970 --> 00:04:40,259 But during this time its taxpayer funding has skyrocketed from $336 million in 2006 69 00:04:40,259 --> 00:04:43,819 to $543 million in 2016. 70 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:48,540 The reality is, just about everything about Planned Parenthood is a deception. 71 00:04:48,540 --> 00:04:52,500 Its purpose, its funding, its very name. 72 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:57,440 That’s why Planned Parenthood’s biggest enemy isn’t conservatives or religious people. 73 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,540 Its biggest enemy is truth. 74 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:04,920 I’m Lila Rose, founder and President of Live Action, for Prager University.