Planned Parenthood Admits: Medicaid Funding Increases Abortions!

Planned Parenthood's "research" arm, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, recently came out with a study which admits that federal laws like the Hyde Amendment, and laws in other states banning the use of state Medicaid funds for abortion, saves hundreds of thousands of lives every year!

The AGI study was titled "RESTRICTING MEDICAID FUNDING FOR ABORTION FORCES ONE IN FOUR POOR WOMEN TO CARRY UNWANTED PREGNANCIES TO TERM". Of course, from Planned Parenthood's point of view, giving birth to a beautiful new baby boy or girl is characterized as "being forced to bring a pregnancy to term".

Ignoring the extremist death cult rhetoric and you see a naked confession that Medicaid funding of abortion, such as we have in Washington, massively increases the number of abortions.

When contacting your legislators on this issue, make sure they know that the abortion industry has already conceded one of our main arguments.

Almost 500 Signatures, Need District Heads

The petition campaign has almost reached the 500 mark! The current tally is 487. 500 signatures is just 10 for each of Washington's 49 legislative districts. Our short-term goal is 1,000 signatures, or just about 20 per district.

We are also looking for representatives for each district to serve as a liaison between the campaign and the legislators for that district. We already have a few such volunteers. Thanks very much for your service. We have started contacting legislators and are collecting official positions on this issue which will help us focus efforts.

If you are interested in helping in this way, please contact us at jonathan.bloedow@comcast.net.

Now Over 350 Signatures

Well the signatures keep rolling in. We're now at over 350. Thank you for all who have signed. We expect the momentum to continue. Please continue to publicize the campaign in your own networks, your churches, your local pro-life groups, or simply your common-sense friends.

For those who attend church, please notify your church leaders (pastors or priests) and make sure they know about it. We want to see plenty of signatures from community leaders.

One thing we've noticed is that women are making up about 90% of our signatures. For those with men in your life, please forward to them and ask them to sign also.

Thank you again for all your support!

Crossed the 200 Signature Mark Already!

Thank you very much! This campaign has barely begun, and thanks to you we've already crossed the 200 signature mark. In fact, as of this writing, we're at 212 signatures, from all over the state. For a geographic representation of the signers, go here.

Please keep those signatures coming. Tell your friends, and please get your immediate family members to sign also. This stage of the campaign is all about numbers. We need the politicians in Olympia, even the friendly ones, to be able to point to something concrete that demonstrates the public is behind this effort.

Also, for those of you on Facebook, we now have a campaign page there. It already has 93 fans. Please connect with us there, and promote it to your Facebook friends.

FAQ #6: What Can I Do?

1) Sign the petition (see top right corner) or click here. (You can see a geographic view of signatories so far.)

2) Vote in our online poll.

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4) Find your state legislators and send them each an email.

5) Share with others what you did by posting in the comments section for this post.

6) Sleep a little better, knowing that you're making a difference.

FAQ #5: Does the abortion industry even need this money?

The abortion industry wants you to think that this money is going to "women in need". In fact, it's going into the pockets of abortion doctors and abortion clinic owners. So the question then is, how badly do these people need this money?

The Abortion In Washington blog covered this very well. (reprinted with permission)

Below is a listing of the salaries for some of the top employees of Washington's largest chain of abortion centers -- Planned Parentood -- and the Cedar River Clinic. Remember your tax dollars go to pay the salaries of these people, which makes them essentially sub-contractors for the state.

Wow. Look at those numbers! We've got a suggested recruitment tagline for the local abortion industry: "It may be killing, but it's one heck of a living!"

Planned Parenthood of Western Washington

Christine Charbonneau	CEO	$259,418
R. Campbell McIntyre	VP, Med. Affairs	$243,626
Michael Romo	COO	$206,185
Mary Grinnell	CFO	$170,705
Lucile K. Arendt	VP, Ext Affairs	$148,565
Carole Williams	VP, HR	$129,615
Stephen McCallister	VP, IT	$119,615
Anna Kaminski**	Asst. Med. Dir	$118,063

Planned Parenthood of Central Washington

Anna Franks	CEO	$127,000
Sarah Cate	Med. Dir.	$101,420
Elizabeth Bianchi	Part Time Abortionist	$97,905 (NOTE: This is for just 12 hours a week!)
Karl Eastlund	COO	$92,700

Planned Parenthood of Spokane

Penny M. Palmer	MD/FT	$144,102
Elizabeth Bianchi	PT Abortionist	$102,290 (NOTE: Same woman as part time for Central Wa. Hours for Spokane not listed)

Cedar River Clinics

Dr. Robert L. Kothenbeutel	Full Time Abortionist	$327,390
Dr. Charlie Browne	Full Time Abortionist	$156,050
Beverly Whipple	Founder & CEO	$71,346

(**a.k.a. The papaya abortionist.)


Isn't it time to get the profit motive out of the abortion industry? All of the above are "non-profits". Just how much sacrifice do you think is involved for these individuals? Do we really want a society where an individual can make a very comfortable full-time career doing (or arranging) abortions?

NOTE: All salaries include benefit plan contributions, not just salary total compensation. Numbers are from 2005 and 2006. Names in blood red are for those we know or are almost certain are actually involved in bringing beautiful, innocent lives to an end with their own hands.

FAQ #4: Where is this $7 million going?

	County	Provider	Paid
	King	Planned Parenthood (PP) of Western Washington	$1,204,702
	King	Cedar River - Renton	$1,145,646
	Spokane	PP of Spokane	$ 424,283
	King	Aurora Medical Services	$ 386,312
	Yakima	Cedar River - Yakima	$ 355,984
	Thurston	Sound Choice Health Center	$ 237,771
	King	Aradia (now closed)	$ 229,148
	Pierce	Cedar River - Tacoma	$ 224,396
	Whatcom	Mt. Baker PP	$ 205,119
	Pierce	All Womens Health	$ 185,238
	Oregon	Lovejoy Surgicenter	$ 174,170
	King	Seattle Medical & Wellness	$ 168,984
	Benton	PP of Central WA - Kennewick	$ 146,689
	Clark	PP of the Columbia	$ 41,170
	Yakima	PP of Central WA - Yakima	$ 28,344
	Oregon	Downtown Womens Center Inc.	$ 25,968
	King	UW Medical Center	$ 16,646
	Thurston	EWH Inc	$ 16,204
	King	Swedish Hospital	$ 11,448
	Oregon	Oregon Health Science U.	$ 10,119
	Spokane	Deaconess Hospital - Spokane	$ 5,452
	Oregon	Bours Health Center	$ 4,950
	King	Assoc. of University Physicians	$ 4,756
	King	Harborview	$ 3,765
	Pierce	Tacoma General	$ 2,806
	King	Bellegrove Ob/Gyn Inc PS	$ 1,783
	King	Group Health Coop	$ 1,668
	Skagit	Skagit Valley Hospital Opps	$ 1,061
	King	Evergreen Hospital	$ 785
	King	Group Health - Puget Sound	$ 785
	Spokane	WomanHealth	$ 594
	Skagit	Fidalgo Medical Assoc PLLC	$ 266
	Spokane	Rockwood Clinic PS	$ 266
	Spokane	Valley Ob/Gyn PS	$ 248
	King	Minor & James Medical PLLC	$ 198
	King	Bellegrove Prof Park	$ 198
	Skagit	Skagit Valley Med. Ctr.	$ 198
	Skagit	Island Family Physicians	$ 11

These numbers are from Washington State Fiscal Year 2006. The numbers actually add up to only $5,276,388 (as opposed to the separately published total figure of $7,554,501 because of a narrower interpretation of "abortion-related services"). You can actually multiple these numbers by 30% (1.3) to get the amount of tax money these institutions actually received for the total set of abortion services rendered to Medicaid clients.