Ten Truths- Abortion

Coral Ridge Ministries
Dr. D. James Kennedy, Founder

From the 10 Truths Series
TRUTH #6 - Abortion Is Big Business and Big Bucks

The abortion industry is making a bloody fortune. Each year, there are more than one million abortions performed in the United States. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research affiliate of Planned Parenthood, estimated in 2001 that the average cost per abortion was $487.43

“You can make a lot of money doing abortions,” revealed Anthony Levantino, a former abortion provider. “ In my practice, we were averaging between $250 and $500 per abortion [in the 1980s]—and it was cash. It is the one time as a doctor you can say, ‘Either pay me up front or I’m not going to take care of you…. Either you have the money or you don’t.’” It’s About Money Former abortion clinic owner Carol Everett was asked, “What is the governing force behind the abortion industry?” “Money,” Everett answered bluntly. “It’s a very lucrative business.”

Norma McCorvey, who was the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, recalled her experience working in an abortion clinic. “It was just a racket,” she said. “[The doctor] was just doing it for the money. He didn’t care about the women….”

Pro-abortion activists trumpet the importance of the so-called “right to choose,” yet virtually all accounts show that the abortion industry is not interested in providing women with alternatives; they are interested in profits. Debra Henry, who worked as an assistant at an abortion clinic, remembers, “The women were never given any type of alternatives to abortions.” Nita Whitten worked as a secretary for a Dallas abortion clinic. “I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone,” she recounted. “The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so she wouldn’t get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money.”

Some abortionists are more profitable than others.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation’s largest abortion provider. From 1997 to 2005, its clinics performed 1,918,532 surgical abortions. The organization is tremendously successful at marketing abortions. Even as the nation’s annual abortion rate fell, the number of abortions performed by PPFA clinics rose more than sixty percent.

In 2005 alone, Planned Parenthood abortion clinics ended the lives of 264,943 unborn babies—which lays a death toll at the feet of this organization greater than all the lives lost in the previous year to breast cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, homicide, leukemia, melanoma, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, and suicide combined.

When D. James Kennedy called abortion “The American Holocaust,” he was not exaggerating in the least. Tax Dollars to Planned Parenthood From 1997 to 2005, Planned Parenthood’s own annual reports reveal that the abortion industry behemoth netted profits in excess of $469 million. During this same time period, the organization collected $2.07 billion from American taxpayers in government grants and contracts. Incredibly, taxpayer funding for PPFA has nearly doubled since 1998. Though our nation is trillions of dollars in debt, many elected officials fight doggedly to maintain—and even increase—funding for abortion providers. Seventeen states actually allocate tax dollars specifically to help pay for the abortions of impoverished women. If you pay taxes, you are helping to fill the financial coffers of America’s abortion providers.

Never forget: Abortion is a moneymaking industry, a hugely profitable business that aggressively seeks to maintain its margins. Whether its funding comes from unsuspecting taxpayers or confused young women, the destruction of unborn life is a highly lucrative practice.