Daily Beast columnist: Planned Parenthood does a “very small number of abortions”

During a recent discussion on The McLaughlin Group regarding a new Georgia law funding pro-life pregnancy resource centers, The Daily Beast’s columnist Eleanor Clift told a whopper of a tale about Planned Parenthood.

While Clift noted that she doesn’t have an issue with the state funding pregnancy centers, she said she objects when “they try to cut funding to Planned Parenthood which provides a lot of health services and a very small number of abortions.”

Oh my. It seems that Ms. Clift has some research to do…

At Newsbusters, Jack Coleman rightly notes that more than 300,000 abortions per year isn’t exactly a “very small number”:

In a video from the Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood Federation of America medical director Dr. Deborah Nucatola claimed that Planned Parenthood has “40 percent of the [abortion] market in the whole country.” As Live Action News’s Danny David reported, this may have been a slight exaggeration – but not by much:

Almost 28% of all abortions in the U.S. yearly are committed by Planned Parenthood. What about other women’s health services? Less than 1% of reproductive-age women get breast exams from Planned Parenthood every year, and less than 2.4% get Pap smears from the abortion giant in a three-year cycle. Clearly, Planned Parenthood holds a large market share of abortions… but not so much for actual women’s health care. And remember – they don’t do mammograms, according to their own CEO…

Planned Parenthood fact-checks Planned Parenthood on mammograms

Danny David also notes that Planned Parenthood’s income from abortions is very high:

If such a “very small number” of abortions are being done at Planned Parenthood, Ms. Clift, then how do Planned Parenthood clinics make over half their income from it?

Eleanor Clift is one of those people in the media, apparently, who prefers to remain ignorant of the facts about Planned Parenthood – despite the abortion giant’s own numbers.

When it comes to abortion, the mainstream media tends to put on rose-colored glasses, exchanging accuracy in journalism for a script written by Planned Parenthood’s publicists.