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Additionally federal funds at least in 2009 were about 1/3rd of PP's budget. http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/ http://www.factcheck.org/2011/

• elastic_church 10y ago
  so defunding it is symbolic at best competitors can exist, and I'm assuming might already?
  • runamok 10y ago
    Wellll, 33% of your revenue being cut means a lot of people get fired and services degrade so I would not say it's symbolic. Abortions also count for only about 3% of their spending. Yes, they are a lightening rod for controversy. Yes, this place seems to be a competitor but not sure what the costs and such are: http://www.realoptions.net/ http://www.realoptions.net/
    • adrienne 10y ago
      No, that place is a Crisis Pregnancy Center (an anti-abortion facility set up to look like a real repro health clinic). You can tell from the scaremongering about abortion they do here, for instance: http://www.realoptions.net/options/abortion/ http://www.realoptions.net/options/abortion/ They are not an alternative to Planned Parenthood, they are a vile unethical pretend-clinic taking advantage of the confusion of desperate women.
      • runamok 10y ago
        I had visited that page and kind of suspected that. I just was fairly shocked that such a thing would exist in the heart of Silicon Valley (Mountain View, aka the home of Google). I wish these people would put all this "love of life" energy into actually taking good care of all the unwanted children that already exist... From what I have read and heard from people in the know our foster and adoption systems are beyond broken.
    • elastic_church 10y ago
      > Wellll, 33% of your revenue being cut means a lot of people get fired and services degrade so I would not say it's symbolic. And if they have borrowed, then immediate bankruptcy