Good News for the Unborn, Bad News for Planned Parenthood of Indiana

This is a good news with a caveat. While Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN) is losing the Title XX funding & thus having close 5 clinics, The Indiana Family Health Council, Inc. has some problems as well. While it does promote abstinance & Natural Family Planning, it also promotes other means of birth control, like the pill. The fact that it provides a link to PP & PP's sister organization The Guttmacher Institute also raises concerns.

Also, none of the 5 being closed actually provides abortions, just referrals. Still, it does put a crimp in their pipeline. A well deserved crimp for an organization that is more concerned with killing the unborn than obeying the law.

You might remember that PPIN was the subject of an investigation in 2008 by Lila Rose as a part of Live Action's Mona Lisa Project. That investigation showed the willingness of a Bloomington PPIN clinic & an Indianapolis PPIN clinic to cover up the statuatory rape of a 13 yr old so they could do an abortion.

Here are the videos of those investigations:

Bloomington

Indianapolis (Note: This is not the 1 they are closing)

This is a step away from funding PP, but we still have a long way to go since it doesn't close the abortion pipeline, just redirects some of the funds. It may reduce the number of abortions as a result, but it doesn't put an end to them.

Also, this gives us an insight to some other facts about PP. That it is our tax money that is subsidizing PP is clear from the fact that they use it to keep a site that otherwise wouldn't make them money open. It also shows how the bottom line, not women is the real concern about PP. OK, you do need to make enough money to run. But remember how many millions of dollars in profit PP makes each year. Surely, if they cared about women, they would use some of that money to keep the others going. The statement by PPIN about how they will have each site operate shows us that. "PPIN has made the decision that many of our sites must now become fully self-sustaining, or independent, because of the restrictions placed on the funding." Given how money is usually fungable, the Indiana restrictions must make it really difficult for PPIN to do what it otherwise would do to redirect the funds.

Source: Planned Parenthood says it must close 5 clinics

H/T: Live Action