While the pro-life cause is advancing in the UA, there is still a lot more to be done. Planned Parenthood affiliates in states considered pro-life bring in about the same amount of average income as those in pro-abortion states, showing that much more needs to be done to stop the nation’s largest abortion vendor, a new report finds.
The American Life League (ALL) researched the revenue for 81 Planned Parenthood facilities in states considered pro-life and for 418 in pro-abortion states. The group views the phrase “pro-life states” skeptically, since it points out that even states with some restrictions have exceptions for abortion. Pro-lifers, however, stress that every preborn baby is deserving of protection no matter the circumstances of his conception. Direct abortion is also never medically necessary, as medical experts have affirmed.
ALL explains, “America has no truly ‘pro-life’ states, as many still allow for abortions early in pregnancy and exceptions in all/most cases.”
The group explained further:
ALL found that the average income of the 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates in pro-abortion states is $43,389,872. However, 11 Planned Parenthood affiliates in “pro-life” states saw an average affiliate income of $41,208,358. Clearly there is not much difference in Planned Parenthood’s affiliate income in states with more abortion restrictions than those in states with little-to-no abortion restrictions.
Affiliates refers to the overarching organization, while facilities is the individual building.
ALL’s national director shared a message of warning to pro-life activists and groups.
“I’ve heard life-advocates celebrate over states that have laws intended to protect preborn life at conception,” Katie Brown Xavios, stated in a news release. “[A]nd yet those same states have active Planned Parenthood facilities.”
Xavios said the “exceptions” in the abortion prohibitions are exploited by Planned Parenthood and that truly pro-life states must close them.
“The exceptions are the cracks that entities like Planned Parenthood prey on, and allow them to perform numerous abortions all while lawmakers can tout a ‘pro-life state,'” she said. “Babies condemned to the exception clause matter just as much as every other child, and until states seek to protect every single pre-born baby, they should not get to call themselves a pro-life state.”