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We hear it so often in the debate over abortion, “What about the woman?”

Who’s really concerned for the pregnant woman in need…pregnancy centers around the country offering free services and support, or the abortion providers like this one who prides himself on 5 minute suction abortions?  Here’s a glimpse of one abortion provider who cornered the market in Southern California and beyond.

Dr. Edward Allred, owned 25 Family Planning Associates (FPA) clinics in California and Chicago, which generated annual revenues of $70 million, according to a 2001 issue of Forbes (this was as of January 2002).  In 1980, FPA had grown to a 12-clinic operation. That year Dr. Allred told the San Diego Union (NEWS ARTICLE) his doctors would crank out a staggering 60,000 abortions, allotting five minutes per patient-enough time to properly terminate a fetus without driving up labor and anesthesia costs: “We streamlined, we made efficiencies, we employed the suction technique better than anyone, and we eliminated needless patient-physician contact.” At that time his website stated that, FPA’s founders “immediately began to concentrate on developing simpler and less expensive abortion procedures,” making FPA “the leading provider of abortion services in California.”  He went further and said, ”We [FPA doctors] usually see the patient for the first time on the operating table and then not again.“[1]  Now the website says, “FPA is a nationally recognized leader in family planning.  We are the largest and most experienced family planning network in the country.”[2]

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Aside from money, Dr. Allred’s motivation is driven also by his convictions.   He told this to a reporter for the San Diego Union newspaper in 1980: “Population control is too important to be stopped by some right-wing pro life types. Take the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect of democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide; I’d set up a clinic in Mexico for free if I could.  Maybe one in Calexico would help. The survival of our society could be at stake.” [3]  In the Los Angeles area alone, FPA has 7 abortion clinics which make up 25% of the total number of clinics there. However, almost half of the abortion clinics in LA that offer surgical abortions are FPA clinics.  Moreover, 7 of the 10 clinics there that perform 2^nd trimester abortions, are FPA owned and operated.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood (largest abortion provider in the Country) had similar views to Dr. Allred’s.  One of her marketing strategies was very similar to his.  Her idea was to offer sterilization free of charge or even coerce what she considered those of an “inferior race” to utilize the procedure.  Her book, The Pivot of Civilization, was one of the first books to “openly expound and extol Malthusian and Eugenic aims. Throughout its 284 pages, Margaret unashamedly called for the elimination of ‘human weeds,’ for the cessation of charity, for the segregation of ‘morons, misfits, and the maladjusted’ and for the sterilization of ‘genetically inferior races.’”[4]

According to California Catholic Daily, May, 7, 2012, “Even though Allred has said he is against unnecessary government spending, he approves of and encourages the use of public funding for abortion. To this day, FPA makes sure all potential customers are aware that they can use MediCal to pay for abortion. They can apply for it and use it on the very same day they get their abortion.  They went on to report in the same article, that Allred is now very rich and retired.

Vitae will never stop trying to reach the women first, before they fall victim to this industry.  To them, the pregnant, vulnerable women are like small prey in a lion’s den.

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