Originally Posted by kane

Let me quote from the Fact Check link I listed above.



Roughly 10% of all their clients get abortions. 90% come there for other reasons like getting cheap or free birth control, STD screenings and treatments and cancer treatments.

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The money they do get from the government can't be used for abortions.

I don't have any problem giving them money. Are they doing some shady things? Perhaps. I think we will find out more about that in the near future, but there are a lot of people that go there to get free birth control. The Guttmacher Institute reports that the number of abortions in this country has dropped quite a bit. In 1990 there were 1.6 million abortions. In 2011 that number had dropped to 1 million.

I am all for preventing people from getting pregnant so they don't end up getting abortions and I think Planned Parenthood does a lot of that.