Illustration: The unborn by Alexander Hunter for The Washington TimesWhere’s the money? That’s the question on everyone’s mind after reading the recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The GAO numbers on money paid out to Planned Parenthood between 2002 and 2008 reveal an unaccounted-for $1.3 billion.
No answers have been forthcoming. In typical Planned Parenthood style, the abortion giant has done nothing to shed light on the question. In fact, it has done just the opposite.
After weeks of investigation by American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood project, it appears the reason the GAO was not able to account for the expenditure of the great majority of the government money received is that Planned Parenthood will not produce its internal audits for the GAO to analyze.
Because of this, the GAO had to rely on reports filed by Planned Parenthood affiliates under the Single Audit Act, and those reports grossly underreport the amount of government money expended by Planned Parenthood.
The American taxpayers are left with more questions now than before:
c Why didn’t Planned Parenthood hand over its internal audits to the GAO as it did in 2001 in the face of a similar inquiry into its spending?
c Why is the organization allowed to disregard the request of 31 U.S. senators and representatives to account for its expenditure of government funds? What is Planned Parenthood hiding?
c Why do we continue to fund Planned Parenthood to the tune of $349 million annually and not hold it accountable for how it spends that money?
c Most important, why is an organization that kills more than 300,000 innocent unborn children each year sanctioned and funded by our government?
Can an organization that operates more than 800 facilities in 50 states and has an annual budget of more than $1 billion really be hiding from public view?
Planned Parenthood has a complex organizational structure. It has a national office - Planned Parenthood Federation of America - that is incorporated independently and does not operate any medical facilities. Then there are about 85 separately incorporated affiliates across the country that do, in fact, operate 817 medical facilities. This makes a total of 86 corporations all filing their own documents with government agencies; all except the national office are involved directly in killing pre-born babies.
Planned Parenthood’s national office used to publish two annual documents that gave elected officials and the general public an understanding of its operations. After all, because taxpayers provide at least one-third of Planned Parenthood’s income, it is only right that we should at least know how the money is being used.
The first of those documents was Planned Parenthood’s annual service report. It gave the reader a real inside look at Planned Parenthood’s operation. Although that report has very valuable data and is still used within the organization today, the last time it was released to the public was 1992.
Planned Parenthood likes to portray itself as a trusted health care provider with a loyal following of clients. Yet that 1992 service report revealed that Planned Parenthood lost 43 percent of its customers in 1991. A look at other reports reveals it lost 41.9 percent of its customers in 1990 and 42.2 percent in 1989. This is not the picture of an organization with a loyal client base.
That 1992 report also told us that 42.7 percent of abortions at Planned Parenthood in 1991 were committed on minority women. This was despite the fact that minority women accounted for just 26 percent of the group’s regular customers. In addition, previous service reports showed minorities accounted for 44.5 percent (1990), 40.7 percent (1989), 40.5 percent (1988), and 44.5 percent (1987) of abortions. In other words, Planned Parenthood’s own data show that it targets minorities for abortion.
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