DP, While this is a complicated discussion, the idea that only 3% of Planned Parenthood’s budget went for abortions is patently false. Your figures for Planned Parenthood income and the government’s share of that income are accurate – approximately one third of PP’s one billion dollar income comes from the National Government.

PP’s figures show that it performed 332,278 abortions in 2009. If you do the math it shows that Planned Parenthood claims the total cost of an abortion is $10 including medical personnel, facilities, disposable supplies, insurance, facility construction and maintenance together with its share of overhead costs. Planned Parenthood’s own figures place the average cost of an abortion at $650 in the first trimester. Second trimester abortions are more expensive averaging around $2.100 each.

If we assume that one-half of the abortions are performed in the first trimester and one-half in the second trimester then the cost for the first trimester abortions is 180 million dollars – the cost for the second trimester babies totals 349 million dollars. The total costs for abortions performed by Planned Parenthood, using their own numbers, exceeds $500,000,000 or approximately one-half of the organization’s total budget.