some numbers on PP (and some plagiarism to boot)

Excerpts from Margie Montgomery's letter in the C-J, responding to a letter/op-ed by Kimberly Greene in the C-J. Interestingly, Greene's letter is no longer available on their website, perhaps because it is involved in some form of plagiarism. You can see "her" letter here as well-- in an Anchorage, Alaska newspaper.

Is it possible that one is an “extremist” to resent her tax dollars being used to abort at least 5.3 million babies since 1970; or in 2009, Planned Parenthood's aborting 332,278 babies? Defunding Planned Parenthood (PP) with our tax dollars wouldn't mean denying women cancer screening, contraception and sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing, because in addition to the tens of thousands of U.S. doctors and hospitals that provide these services, there are 1,048 federally qualified health centers in the U.S. doing the same...

Planned Parenthood is immensely wealthy in its own right and does not need tax dollars to continue functioning. According to its latest published annual report, PP has nearly $1 billion dollars of net assets (almost$1.2 billion in assets and $202.6 million in liabilities)...

In 2009, the group made only 977 adoption referrals and cared for only 7,021 prenatal clients, but performed a record 332,278 abortions...Planned Parenthood recently made plain the centrality of abortion to its mission by mandating that every one of its affiliates have at least one clinic that does abortions within the next two years...

When women testify in favor of tightening safety standards at clinics, Planned Parenthood fights them. And despite the fact that 88 percent of Americans favor informed-consent laws that provide information about the risks of, and alternatives to, abortion for women, Planned Parenthood opposes these efforts and works to keep women in the dark. And tragically, in some instances, Planned Parenthood has refused to cooperate when law-enforcement officials have sought information to help girls they believed to be victims of child rape or molestation...