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Watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgiScr364Y
Then read the text, alright?
"Prenatal care. These are the kinds of services folks depend on Planned Parenthood for.”
- Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards
Planned Parenthood is spending millions of dollars in advertising right now, saying they support “choices” for pregnant women, but nothing could be further from the truth…
Despite Planned Parenthood’s claims, Live Action’s investigative team found that prenatal care is virtually non-existent for mothers who actually want to keep their babies. We documented it in our NEW investigative video, which you can see HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgiScr364Y
Our investigators contacted all 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates in the United States, reaching out to 97 facilities, and discovered only FIVE offered any sort of prenatal care at all.
By turning away pregnant women for prenatal care, it’s obvious Planned Parenthood has one priority - and supports only one option - for most women: abortion.
But that doesn’t stop Planned Parenthood from lying to the public about its prenatal services. In fact, this is all part of Planned Parenthood’s strategy to protect its $550 million in taxpayer funding -- by downplaying the 887 preborn children they dismember, poison, and starve to death every day.
With the fight to defund Planned Parenthood in full force in Congress, we need to act quickly and share this information with more Americans so that, they too, know the truth: Planned Parenthood is not a “health care provider,” they are an abortion corporation.
Please share this video with your friends on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10154911641473728/.
And for your friends who aren’t on Facebook, email them this link.
In the following weeks, Live Action will be releasing more videos exposing Planned Parenthood's relentless focus on abortion and the lack of authentic health care. Live Action’s groundbreaking investigative report will shatter the narrative and the myths Planned Parenthood so desperately want the American people to believe.
Now is the time to deal a crippling blow to the abortion giant - the lives of preborn children are depending on us. Together, we can put an end to Planned Parenthood’s lies and the state-sponsored killing of children.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @03:18AM
In my last journal entry about PP, I challenged someone to call PP and try to arrange for actual, real gynocological services, like mammograms and pap smears. Prenatal is about as real as gynocology gets - and you can't get prenatal at PP.
Once again, I insist that Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded, and put out of business. Their ONLY business, is abortion.
Planned Parenthood makes all sorts of claims about women's health - but they aren't concerned about women's health, men's health, children's health, baby's health, or the unborn's health. Planned Parenthood is a charnel house, not a health care facility.
Everyone here is either a woman, or knows a woman. (Alright, maybe two or three of you don't know any women, I won't argue with you.) Make the phone call, and try to arrange for health care services that don't result in an abortion.
Big deal, you can get some condoms. Whoopty-do. Try to get some actual services, which are intended to maintain or improve a woman's health. Please post back with your results.
DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND PUT THAT SAME MONEY INTO THE HEALTH CLINICS LOCATED AROUND THE COUNTRY!! The health clinic in my county wouldn't refuse a few hundred, or even a few thousand, of that half billion the federal government is giving to Planned Parenthood.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:54AM
What's the criteria for success? What's your expectation for the level of evidence needed to be provided?
My girlfriend doesn't need any of their medical services that I'm aware of, but she might be a stubborn enough liberal to go schedule something if I brought this to her attention just to prove something. Personally, I dislike the idea of ACTUALLY going through with unnecessary medical procedures of any sort though, particularly ones using limited resources that could actually go to people who honestly need them.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:46PM
She need not actually schedule anything. Just pick up the phone, and start asking questions. Feed them a line of bullshit. The people in the video set a fine example. Just dial the number, tell them you need a pap smear. They'll tell you whether they do pap smears. Later, call again and ask about a mammogram. Maybe the next day, inquire about prenatal care. You can go as fast or as slow as you like - spend several minutes grilling them in one go to find out what services they offer. Or, you can spread it out over some days, checking off one service after the next. I'm not an OB-GYN, of course. I don't even know all of the problems for which women go to see women's doctors. But, I know enough about OB-GYN to know that if all they offer are abortions, then they don't give one small damn about "women's health". See if she can get treatment for an STD. Treated for a yeast infection. She needs post-natal care.
More and more videos are coming out, making it clear that PP doesn't do "women's health" - they are an abortion company.
Please note - I'm not even arguing here that abortion is wrong, or right, desirable or undesirable. I am simply pointing out that Planned Parenthood is merely another corrupt corporation, sucking at the government teat, and misrepresenting what they provide in exchange for that half billion dollars.
Planned Parenthood is on par with any of the military industrial corporations that suck money out of that big government teat, then fail to deliver anything worthwhile. Planned Parenthood and Northrup Grumman. Planned Parenthood and Bath Iron Works. I don't even want to argue about abortion. I'm trying to help people see how CORRUPT Planned Parenthood is.
Remember that video where ACORN officials were recorded, giving advice to an apparent under aged prostitute? That same sort of advice, under similar circumstances, is being given to women today. PP portrays themselves as being concerned with human traffiking, and claim that they call the law whenever they suspect that something like that is going on.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/03/what-did-the-planned-parenthood-sting-really-accomplish/ [time.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:52PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phocsMQsFC4 [youtube.com]
Please, watch the video. You can, of course, do any fact checking you care to do. PP is dirty, it's just that simple.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:10PM
Asked her to do it today. Apparently she's already gone to them before for an HPV vaccination some time ago before we started dating because she got spooked into it (which I would be in this day and age) and didn't have health insurance at the time. I took that as a tacit "I'm not going to call them now," so I didn't push the issue. Dunno if that qualifies as a legitimate health service, but it was good enough for me.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:19PM
Fair enough - you asked. Which is more than most are willing to do. Obviously, you have an open enough mind to actually ask questions, and not swallow the party line. Salutes for that.
The HPV vaccine was politicized. I remember that, but I've never done any studying on it. I might speculate that PP got involved with the vaccine because it was politicized - or it may be a more legitimate service than that.
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140543977/hpv-vaccine-the-science-behind-the-controversy [npr.org]
Yeah, 6 years ago Michelle Bachman object to the idea of protecting the sex lives of 11 year old girls. The effectiveness, as well as the duration of the inoculation is questioned, legitimately it seems. But the biggest part of the objection centers around "11 years old" and "sex". This is something that PP would get involved in, even if they offered no other health services at all.
And, it's a point against the religious right, of course. 11 year old girls are more sophisticated than old men and old women at church believe them to be. They are already being educated about their bodies, and the anticpated first period.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday January 27 2017, @05:05PM
I mean, as someone who bears both liberal and conservative tendencies, I struggle to really believe anything I read anymore, because half of it always sounds like bullshit even when I want to believe it.
I honestly don't care about the abortions though. I have no concept of the sanctity of life, and it's hard for me to pass a value judgement upon people for whom it is literally impossible for me to ever even hypothetically be in the same situation, They could be doing that full-time and it wouldn't really bug me. I wonder if it's not that they don't offer those other services, but that most people don't go in for that. Suppose everyone gets abortions from Planned Parenthood because that's singularly what Planned Parenthood is known for. Kinda like how "no one supports linux because no one supports linux".
Now, admittedly, I don't know much about what I'm talking about. I've not done the research you appear to have done. I'm totes just talking out my ass at this point, but I've never really seen them go out of their way to advertise anything, so they're probably really only known for what gets plastered all over the news, which is mostly "OMG ABORTIONS!" Combined with the fact that the people who require their services most are incidentally generally regarded as "low-information" people, it's not hard to believe. Combined with the fact that those people are not generally (and I am generalizing a lot) the ones forward thinking or living by such margins as to be concerned with "routine" procedures, but would definitely be triggered to act out of any number of motivations against a "life event". I'm just wondering if the dark conspiracy here could be explained through much more simple, human means.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday January 30 2017, @12:50PM
It's not to protect the sex lives of 11-year-old girls; it's because of these three realities:
1) A minority of 11- and 12-year-old kids do have sex of some kind, almost always because they're messed up and trying desperately to get "love" by pleasing the person.
2) Some 11- and 12-year-old kids do end up having sex forced on them by someone else.
3) A hell of a lot of teenagers do have sex of some kind before adulthood.
(I'm saying "kids" because they're now finally talking about giving boys the vaccine for their own protection.)
The idea being that any of those 3 situations shouldn't result in the kid either developing HPV-induced cancer a few decades later, or transmitting a cancer-inducing HPV strain to somebody else. It doesn't mean anyone expects or wants children to have sex, just recognizing that it unfortunately sometimes happens. :-p (I'm sure you'll agree that if a kid is messed-up enough that potentially catching HIV/AIDS isn't a deterrence, then HPV sure as hell isn't going to be.)
If we made vaccination decisions based on what we foresee happening in the next year or two, then a hell of a lot of people wouldn't have their children/teens get any vaccines unless they're planning to visit a third-world country. In fact, it's the "well, I'm not planning to expose the kids to horrible diseases, so I'm not taking the risk of vaccinating them" logic that results in people not having their kids vaccinated. IIRC you're not a big fan of that logic, unless I'm mixing you up with someone else?
(Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:14AM
Their ONLY business, is abortion.
That's not what their spokesperson says:
AMY GOODMAN: You know, in the United States—I was listening to CNN and one of the critics of Planned Parenthood, when someone said, at least in the United States, what—abortion services that are provided in the country are something like 3 percent of the services that Planned Parenthood provides at the clinics?
DAWN LAGUENS: Planned Parenthood provides a full range of reproductive health services. About 97 percent of those services are preventive health services.
AMY GOODMAN: So, he asked, "So, why do they bother providing abortion?"
DAWN LAGUENS: Well, abortion is part of the full range of women’s healthcare. And it’s a legal right. [...]
-- https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/24/women_will_die_because_of_this [democracynow.org]
The fact that I declined your challenge doesn't prove otherwise.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:27AM
Yes, PP claims to do all kinds of good in the world.
There's a story coming up in which Shkrelli tells us how much good he has done, as well. Did you expect PP to tell you how corrupt they are? Did you expect Shkrelli to tell you how evil he is? Do you expect Bush or Cheney, even now, to tell everyone how evil they are? Do you expect Hillary or Bill to tell us how dirty and how bloody all of their money is?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:11AM
> Did you expect PP to tell you how corrupt they are?
You had written: "Their ONLY business, is abortion." Their spokesperson contradicts that. You may of course choose not to believe her. However, Live Action, the anti-abortion group you've quoted in this journal contradicts your comment. You quote Live Action as saying:
Our investigators contacted all 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates in the United States, reaching out to 97 facilities, and discovered only FIVE offered any sort of prenatal care at all.
They're saying that PP offers prenatal care, by which I'm assuming they mean something other than abortion.
Did you expect Shkrelli to tell you how evil he is? Do you expect Bush or Cheney, even now, to tell everyone how evil they are? Do you expect Hillary or Bill to tell us how dirty and how bloody all of their money is?
Mr. Shkrelli has been charged with securities fraud; Messrs. Bush and Cheney have been indicted for war crimes; the Clintons' dealings have been investigated. I see political motivation in the proceedings against all those people. Another thing they have in common is that none of them have been convicted of wrongdoing. We may of course form our own, perhaps unflattering, opinions of them. It appears to me that your opinion of PP is largely based upon a distaste for abortion, rather than on solid indications of wrongdoing. The political motivation is there, but I hesitate to equate Live Action with such august bodies as the FBI and the Malaysian War Crimes Tribunal. As alluded to by another commenter, in a previous video they released, "parts of the conversation were strategically omitted" (quoted from the page linked below) in a way that tends to put PP in an unfavourable light.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/01/live-action-planned-parenthood-videos_n_1563241.html [huffingtonpost.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:51PM
There are only half a billion indications of wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood.
Let's try this scenario on. You're a kindly, and wealthy old coot. I'm a businessman in the same town. I convince you that I'm somewhat needy, and that you could really help me, and my business. You indicate that you might help me with a loan, or with a grant, with the stipulation that I don't use your money to do certain things. Alright - you're a little eccentric, and you don't like automobiles. You sipulate that I can't fix cars with your money. BUT - my business is auto repair.
How am I going to convince you that I'm not using your money to repair cars?
That is where Planned Parenthood is at. Their BUSINESS is abortion, but they are taking half a billion dollars from Uncle, who has stipulated that his money may not be used for abortions.
A lot of people are being willfully ignorant here . . . .
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Informative) by cafebabe on Monday February 20 2017, @10:44PM
"Donated" fetal stem cell and fetal organs are quite lucrative and this interlocks with a global trade of harvested organs, for example, from China. More pertinently, William Henry Gates II [wikipedia.org] (father of Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates) was a board member of Planned Parenthood. William Henry Gates II also oversaw donations to Planned Parenthood as co-chair of the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation.
William Henry Gates III openly advocates population reduction, most notably in his 2010 TED Talk: Innovating To Zero [ted.com]. (Actually, who funds TED and why has Bill Gates given so many TED Talks?)
About 2.5 years ago, I submitted a SoylentNews article [soylentnews.org], citing the BBC [bbc.co.uk] and InfoWars [infowars.com], in which Bill Gates funded a DRM contraceptive chip which is intended to last 16 years. Some people saw no problem with that. Do they have the same opinion after a forced Windows 10 upgrade?
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @03:27AM
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/24/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-defunding-inter/ [washingtontimes.com]
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday barring federal funds from organizations that promote abortion around the world, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation, in what activists say is the president’s first major pro-life action while in office.
The policy, known as the Mexico City Policy or the Global Gag Rule, was first ushered in under Ronald Reagan and bars federal funds from going to foreign organizations that perform abortions overseas or lobby for the practice’s legalization in other countries.
“American taxpayer dollars have many good uses, but paying for elective abortions overseas is not and never has been one of them,” Steven H. Aden, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a statement. “The president has done the right and logical thing in reinstating a policy that never should have been rescinded.”
The International Planned Parenthood Federation said it will continue to promote abortion around the globe and forfeit the $100 million it had received annually from the U.S. government.
“We cannot — and will not — deny life-saving services to the world’s poorest women. We will work with governments and donors to bridge the funding and service gaps the Global Gag Rule creates,” the group said in a statement. “We will ensure that women can exercise their rights and access safe abortion and family planning.”
Marjorie Newman-Williams, vice president and director of Marie Stopes International, an abortion advocate that stands to lose $30 million from the executive order, said abiding by the Mexico City Policy would mean “turning our backs on the very women who need us most.”
“All the medical evidence, as well as everything we know from our daily interactions with women, is unequivocal: if you take safe abortion services out of the reproductive healthcare package, it exposes women to risk,” Ms. Newman-Williams said in a statement.
The Mexico City policy was first instituted in 1984, but was repealed by former president Bill Clinton in 1993. It was reinstated by former president George W. Bush in 2001, only to be nullified again by former president Barack Obama in 2009.
The executive action was one of many Mr. Trump signed on day one of his presidency, including a freeze on federal hiring and pulling the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. The pro-life policy also comes one day after the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision creating a constitutional right to an abortion.
Pro-life advocates said Mr. Trump’s prioritization of the Mexico City Policy shows he’s willing to advance comprehensive pro-life legislation during his presidency.
“His administration will have more opportunities to pursue pro-life policies in the weeks and months to come, such as ending taxpayer funding for the abortion industry, signing the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the Conscience Protection Act, and much more,” Melanie Israel, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said in a statement.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday January 25 2017, @04:19PM
We cannot — and will not — deny life-saving services to the world’s poorest women.
Another fascinating aspect of the situation is not all abortions are poor people, but the strongest demographic traits are minority race (like 2/3 of abortions despite being a minority of the population) and being non-Christian (numbers all over the map on this figure). Just saying most of the people getting abortions are not white Christian girls.
This shows up in politics where there are strange bedfellows and a fairly accurate litmus test for neocon/legacy republican vs alt right is if they hate PP or if they're along the range of neutral to collecting donations for PP.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:35PM
One of our more shameful sides in foreign relations and foreign policies, have been forced sterilizations. I should do some searching for old articles soon. All over Africa, especially, women would come in for "free" health services, only to be tricked into being sterilized. Those "human weeds" that Margaret Sanger loved so much. Why abort them one at a time, when you can sterilize a woman, ensuring that she has no more children?
I wonder if the international PP supports any of the groups involved with those scandals.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/u.s.-u.k.-foreign-aid-tied-to-indias-forced-sterilization-campaign [ncregister.com]
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/30/world/africa/namibia-forced-sterilization/ [cnn.com]
Oh - good one here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/african-women-fight-back-against-forced-coerced-sterilizations [lifesitenews.com]
"Among the groups cited by women in the report and in news investigations are Medicin Sans Frontiers and Marie Stopes International."
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:06AM
Yes, congratulations, you're getting what you wanted (emphasis mine):
[...] if a clinic receives even $1 of U.S. foreign assistance for family planning, its doctors and nurses are limited in what they can do to help their patients. They can’t counsel a woman on the full range of health options legally available to her, refer her to another provider for specialized care or even give her a pamphlet with medically accurate information. That’s why we call it the global gag rule, because it prevents doctors from talking to their patients [...]
-- https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/24/women_will_die_because_of_this [democracynow.org]
You'll be delighted, I expect, by Mr. Trump's appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court:
Trump says he’ll name his pick to fill the late Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court as early as next week. Two contenders for the seat have emerged: Judge William Pryor Jr. and Neil Gorsuch. Pryor is a fierce opponent of abortion who has called Roe v. Wade the "worst abomination of constitutional law in our history." He also opposes LGBT rights and has backed an anti-sodomy law in Texas.
-- https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/25/headlines/trump_considering_extreme_anti_abortion_judge_for_supreme_court [democracynow.org]
Associate Justice Scalia died nearly a year ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:31AM
Maybe not "delighted" at Trump's choices. But, liberals were certainly expecting this. They've been dumping on Joe Average American for how long? The voters decided. Now we watch the pendulum swing the other direction for awhile.
Damned shame all the liberals and all the conservatives can't moderate themselves. Then, we might elect some moderate rulers. But, no, the two dominant parties have to be divisive asses all the time.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:26AM
> Maybe not "delighted" at Trump's choices.
I apologise if I'm misconstruing these journal entries as a general distaste for abortion.
> They've been dumping on Joe Average American for how long?
I wonder what you mean by this. Does it include the things I mentioned or alluded to—the court's decision in Roe v. Wade or its decisions legalising sodomy and gay marriage? What about (not mentioned in my other post) Griswold v. Connecticut?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut [wikipedia.org]
Or are you, as I suspect, alluding to something altogether different?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:45PM
http://freebeacon.com/politics/white-candidate-dnc-chair-job-shut-white-people-down/ [freebeacon.com]
This sort of thing, which has been going on for a couple decades now. We had another white bitch in the news not long ago, who passed herself off as black, so that she could whore herself off to the black community.
Black people have legitimate greviances against the whites - anyone who fails to understand that is simply retarded, and not fit for conversation of any type. But, white women like this who are given a voice, and all they can do is to attack their own parents, grandparents, great~great~greats, and even their own children? Fek. These are the worst of the worst of the SJW's - and it's hard to stomach the best of them.
Microaggressions? I don't waste my time on that kind of crap. I want to smack them upside the head with a three pound hammer. Nothing micro about that, is there?
And, Sally Boynton Brown is the first super bitch to have a voice in the Democratic party. There was a whole parade of shrill shrews backing Clinton, all of whom should have become better acquainted with abortion procedures more than six decades ago.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:42PM
Just a reminder that Live Action is the organization that release those fake Planned Parenthood videos a year ago.
You know, the ones that convinced this guy to kill a father of two, a mother of two, and an army vet/police officer while shooting up a Planned Parenthood. [usatoday.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:39AM
Most recently, James O'Keefe and his slimy bunch tried to coerce Progressives and Liberals into doing illegal things at the Donnie Tiny Hands inaugural so that the slime could video it.
In a counter-sting, The Undercurrent and Americans Take Action got footage of the slime trying their best to show just how slimy they are.
Reactionary Con Artist James O'Keefe Busted for Dirty Tricks Against Trump Protesters [alternet.org]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday January 30 2017, @11:57AM
I'm surprised you didn't double-check your info before writing an entire post based on it — that doesn't seem entirely like you.
I can't watch the videos at the moment, but I know which ones you're referring to, and both were shown to be heavily edited. One supposedly showed a PP official claiming that they sought to profit, when the unedited version made it clear she said they were aiming to recoup costs, not profit [factcheck.org]. The producer of the other video admitted on camera that it actually showed a miscarriage, not an abortion [politicususa.com].
FactCheck.org is pretty good about smacking both Democrats & Republicans when they stretch the truth, so I used two of its articles (one catching each party) to check the info on Planned Parenthood's services:
As part of catching Obama flubbing it by claiming it provides mammorgams, it gave this info [factcheck.org]:
According to Planned Parenthood, its medical staff performed 747,607 “breast exams/breast care” in 2010 [and] 769,769 Pap tests.
In addition to mammogram referrals, the group says it helps low-income patients find grants and assistance to pay for mammograms … Contraception is one of the group’s largest categories of services provided — 33.5 percent of services in 2010. […] The largest category is testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (38 percent). Cancer screening and prevention services — which would include breast exams — made up 14.5 percent of all medical services. Abortion made up 3 percent, with 329,445 abortion procedures in 2010.
Planned Parenthood says it served about 3 million people in 2010. That would mean about 25 percent of its clients received a breast exam or breast care, or about 1 in 4. About 11 percent of clients, or 1 in 9, received abortion services. Contraception services and STD testing and treatment totaled well over 3 million for each category.
This entry tackled the "9x%" claim directly: [factcheck.org]
[The claimed figure] only counts certain direct services provided by Planned Parenthood to its pregnant clients: abortions, prenatal services and adoption referrals. It also discounts the millions of health services provided to women who are not pregnant, including those seeking to avoid unwanted pregnancies […] But that overall figure leaves out other services provided to pregnant women.
For example, the annual report says that 65,464 additional “family practice services” were provided to men and women, some of whom may have been expecting. Nearly 1.2 million pregnancy tests were given to women, some of whom may have been pregnant at the time. And 17,817 men and women received “other procedures,” including services for low-income pregnant women through the Women, Infants, and Children federal program.
[...]
Abortions accounted for 3 percent of the nearly 10.6 million total services provided by Planned Parenthood clinics in 2013, according to its annual report.
Some services it provided in addition to abortions were:
4.5 million tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections
3.6 million contraception related services
935,573 cancer screenings including breast exams and Pap tests
1.1 million pregnancy tests and prenatal services