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Today, President Obama will give a speech at Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s 75th anniversary gala, making him the first sitting president to address the group. Here are nine things you should know about the nation’s largest abortion provider:

1. Planned Parenthood Federation of America has 95 affiliates and 865 health centers, according to its latest annual report, which covers the 2008-09 fiscal year. They require that at least one clinic per affiliate must perform abortions. PP performs over 320,000 abortions a year.
2. The motto for this year’s gala is “Our past is our prologue.” Part of the past the organization will be celebrating includes its founding by the notorious racist and eugenicist Margaret Sanger. Sanger wanted to control the reproduction of immigrants, the poor, certain religious groups, and anyone else she thought was from an “unacceptable” heritage. Sanger referred to such people as reckless breeders who were “unceasingly spawning a class of human beings who never should have been born at all . . .” In 1939 Sanger started the “Negro Project” and attempted to get Christian ministers to aid her effort. As she wrote in a letter to a fellow eugenicist, “we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
3. Last year PP reported excess revenue of $87.4 million and $1.2 billion in total assets. Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood’s CEO, makes nearly $400,000 a year.
4. The amount of taxpayer money PP got in 2012 (
$542,000,000) equates to $61,836 an hour, 24 hours a day for 365 days.
5. PP has repeatedly and consistently turned a blind eye to
reports of statutory rape.
6. PP strongly opposes
sex education that focuses on abstinence and has gone so far as to file lawsuits against school districts that have decided to implement abstinence-only programs. The organization claims to offer “value-neutral” sex education. (As an example, on their website aimed at teenagers, they include an article (“All About the Anus”) which teaches kids that, “Some straight couples use anal sex as a way to preserve the woman’s virginity.”)
7. Last month a Planned Parenthood of Florida lobbyist, testifying against Florida’s Born Alive Infants Protection Act, told lawmakers that if a baby survives an abortion, it is
debatable whether that baby should live or die.
8. Some Planned Parenthood clinics have demonstrated a willingness to
partner with pimps and sex traffickers to exploit young women instead of safeguarding their health and safety.
9. While in the Illinois state senate, Obama worked with PP to determine how he
should vote on a partial-birth abortion legislation. With Planned Parenthood’s blessing, he voted “present” to protect his “100 percent” record on pro-abortion votes.  

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