Quote:Abortion a leftist cash cow? While I cannot claim to be an expert on the economics of abortion, this seems to be a stretch. If we treat unwanted children in base terms, removing the human qualities of the argument, the cost of raising them on a societal level far exceeds whatever profits could be made from abortions. Even if you take into account racially targeting impoverished minorities who are not given a real shot at the American Dream and are profiled for placement in a "for profit" prison system.

 

Planned Parenthood alone made $165 million on ~329,500 abortion in 2011. That's 40% of the abortions performed in the US that year. The centers,staff and physicians who perform these "services"  are raking in the cash on the bodies of America's children. Abortion services are the only self-sustaining services provided by these clinics, so 3 to 6% of the total services provided pay for more than half of the clinics income annually. 

 

The breakdown for PP in 2011:

 

Clinic Income: $321 million (again, half of that is from abortion income)

Private donations: $223 million (funds used to provide "free health services" (abortions) to "low income women" (ie poor minorities))

Medicaid funds: $ $487 million

 

Total abortion procedures: ~329,500

Total abortion pill kits distributed: ~1.4 million

 

In sum, abortion services are a billion dollar a year business for the entity that provides 40% of the services in our country each year (half coming from the taxpayer btw). So...2.5 billion or so total on extrapolation.

 

Cash cow.

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