1. WHAT LIES BENEATH
Understanding Planned Parenthood

2. PLANNED PARENTHOOD HISTORY
Founded as single birth control clinic in 1916 by Margaret Sanger
Initial focus was birth control
Changed name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) in 1942
Opened first abortion clinic in Syracuse, New York in 1970

3. Largest provider of abortion in America today.

4. MARGARET SANGER Born Margaret Higgins in New York Lived 1879-1966
Focused on birth control and sexual liberation
Supported eugenics
Was Sanger racist?
Does Planned Parenthood own up to its own parentage?

5. PPFA NUMBERS
332,757 abortions performed in 2017, up from 165,174 in 1997
2,831 adoption referrals in 2017, down from 9,381 in 1997
Performs 118 abortions for every adoption referral
More than 600 health centers in U.S.

6. Your financial support of PPFA

7. FINANCIAL SUPPORT
More than 1.66 billion dollars of revenue in
Received more than $563 million from taxpayers in
“Excess of revenue over expenses” (profit) of $ million in
$45 million spent on “public policy” in

8. PPFA‘s ABORTION ADVOCACY
Active lobbying at local, state and federal level
Opposes laws that regulate abortion clinics, informed consent provisions, parental consent for minors seeking abortions, partial-birth abortion bans, sex-selection abortion bans and laws protecting the conscience rights of health care workers
Supports taxpayer-funded abortions

9. MAJORING IN MINORITIES
Eugenic legacy
Minorities are 36% of U.S. population but have 64% of abortions (Guttmacher Institute)

10. PPFA explicitly identified core clients as: “young women, low income women, and women of color” (Plan of Action, 1997)

11. MISGUIDING TEENS www.plannedparenthood.org/teens
Schools and community organizations “The program reaches out through more than 150 local community partners that do not traditionally work with Planned Parenthood, including public libraries, prominent medical institutions, and faith organizations.” (Annual Report )
Undercover exposé of attitude towards rape

12. ACTIVE IN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
Clergy for Choice & Pro Choice Religious Network, consists of religious leaders and ministers
Counseling women and supporting abortions
Supports partial-birth abortions
Opposes conscience clauses, parental notification laws and “'so-called” Crisis Pregnancy Centers”

13. SELLING BABY BODY PARTS
Has sold organs and tissues from aborted babies to researchers or tissue procurement companies
Callous disrespect for women and the value of human life
"It should bother us as a society that we have use for aborted human organs, but not the baby that provides them."

14. PPFA IN MICHIGAN 20 offices across the state
Used to be two affiliates:
Planned Parenthood of West and Northern Michigan
Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan
Now Planned Parenthood of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Flint, and Kalamazoo clinics perform surgical and medical abortions. Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Marquette, Ferndale and Traverse City clinics perform only medical abortions and the rest refer to other abortion clinics.

15. What can I do? Educate, Educate, Educate Think globally, act locally
Right to Life of Michigan's handout with strategies for opposing local Planned Parenthood centers

16. AVAILABLE MATERIALS
“Getting Planned Parenthood out of Michigan!” - plan for helping groups to end Planned Parenthood's influence
“Providing & Promoting Abortion” flyer
Other prolife brochures, research and materials
List of RLM Educational Resource Centers at

17. ADDITIONAL READING Bad Choices, by Douglas R. Scott
Blessed are the Barren, by Robert Marshall and Charles Donovan
Grand Illusions, by George Grant
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy, by Angela Franks
Unplanned, by Abby Johnson

19. This presentation uses copyrighted photos licensed for use by Right to Life of Michigan. Individuals pictured are models and are used for illustrative purposes only. The presentation may not be changed, altered or used in any other media except as is provided.