House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) claimed, yesterday, that Planned Parenthood has saved many lives, despite being the USA’s largest abortion provider.
Ocasio-Cortez, a pro-abortion politician, was speaking at a House committee hearing, named “Birthing While Black: Examining America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis”, when she suggested that Planned Parenthood should be seen as a life-saving force in society due to the prenatal care that it provides.
She said that “if we want to talk about Planned Parenthood, let’s talk about how many lives Planned Parenthood has saved and how many babies have been born because of the prenatal care provided by Planned Parenthood”.
She went on to declare that she was a “Planned Parenthood baby” because her own mother had received prenatal care from the abortion provider.
Planned Parenthood’s own report, however, reveals that while they carried out 8,626 prenatal services in 2018-19, they also performed 354,871 abortions in the same period. The latest figures from Planned Parenthood equate to, on average, 972 abortions every day.
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A SPUC spokesperson said: “It is perverse to claim that organisations like Planned Parenthood are in the business of saving the lives of babies.
“By far, their main occupation is abortion, and it is an incredibly lucrative business. Their most recent balance sheets put their global profits at approximately $2billion for the financial year 2019-20.
“It is doubly perverse to defend an abortion provider at a hearing on racial inequality, when one considers the sheer number of African-American babies it aborts, not to mention the fact that it was founded by the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger.
“A damning study in 2016 revealed that more black babies are aborted in New York City than are born.
“A census in 2010 showed that 79% of Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics are within walking distance of African-American or Hispanic communities.
“This, combined with the fact that abortion kills more black Americans each year than any other leading cause of death, shows that if there is to be justice for black Americans, and for all Americans regardless of their ethnic background, the doors of Planned Parenthood must be closed forever.”
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