From Planned Parenthood's 2003–2004 Annual Report: (continued)
(please comment back at original post, thanks)

I found this information from the CDC itself about how many abortions are done by 8 weeks vs. after 8 weeks, to use this to estimate the actual revenue from abortions at PP.

CDC Abortion Surveillance -- United States, 1999, November 29, 2002 / 51(SS09);1-28:

"From 1992 (when these data were first collected) through 1999, increases have occurred in the percentage of abortions performed at <6 weeks of gestation. Few abortions were provided after 15 weeks of gestation; 4.3% were obtained at 16--20 weeks and 1.5% were obtained at >21 weeks.”

So before 1999, there is no report, even though the CDC supposedly was collecting this data from 1992 on. All we really know is that there were more abortions done at <6 weeks between ’92 and ’99 than in '99. That second sentence above refers only to the data in the 1999 table (Table 6).

"In 1999, for women whose weeks of gestation at the time of abortion were adequately reported, 57% of reported legal induced abortions were known to have been obtained at <8 weeks of gestation, and 87% were reported at <13 weeks (Table 6). Overall, 22% of abortions were performed at <6 weeks of gestation, 17% at 7 weeks, and 18% at 8 weeks (Table 7). [Ed. Note: My emphasis] Few reported abortions were provided after 15 weeks of gestation; 4.3% were known to have been obtained at 16--20 weeks, and 1.5% at >21 weeks.

In 1999, then, 57% of all surgical abortions were done during or before the eighth week (378,174 abortions of 663,472 abortions counted (reported legal abortions from 41 states, D.C. and NYC but not NY State). A total of 43.1% or 285,956 abortions, were done from 9 weeks or later in that year alone.

Our commenter from Oklahoma City said PP’s costs were as follows: “up to 8 weeks is $400, after 8-24 weeks is $1200.”

If it’s “up to but not including 8 weeks” then it’s 39% of all abortions at $400, and 61% at 8 weeks and above, at $1,200 each.

If it’s “up to and including 8 weeks, then it’s 57% of all abortions at $400 each, and 43% after 8 weeks at $1,200 each.

However, the report then goes on to say, "Surveillance data from CDC and other investigators indicate that >50% of all U.S. abortions are performed at <8 weeks of gestation..."

Is that an average of what everyone found? It doesn’t say. Since they didn’t say “>51%” or “>56%,” it’s fair to say the best number encompassing all investigators’ findings is about 51% of all U.S. abortions occurring at <8 weeks, while the CDC’s own report says it’s only 39% at <8 weeks.

Using the OKC numbers, then Planned Parenthood likely did between 95,405 and 124,760 abortions at under 8 weeks (39% or 51% of 244,628 abortions) at $400 each, or between $38,161,960.00 and $49,904,000.00, plus they did between another 119,867 and 149,223 abortions at 8 or more weeks (49% or 61% of 244,628) at $1,200 each, or between $143,840,400.00 and $179,067,600.00 total for those.

So Planned Parenthood probably brought in AT LEAST between $193,744,400.00 and $217,229,560.00 just from abortions alone, out of $306.2 Million in clinic revenue. Abortions represented between 63.3% and 71% of their clinic revenue in 2003-04, and probably much, much more.

Why much, much more? Two reasons:
1) Who knows if they charge more in higher-cost-of-living areas like the Northeast or California?

2) Those CDC numbers did not include the States of New York, California or Massachusetts, three of the largest “consumers” of abortion, nor 6 other states. According to Planned Parenthood’s own Guttmacher Institute, Massachusetts outdid the national abortion rate from 1991 through 1999, California massively beat the national rate from 1991 through 2000 (by 10-20 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44), and New York State as of 2000 still was outdistancing the national rate by at least 20 abortions per 1,000 women and like California, showing no signs of diminishing.

If I had time to figure which states were the other ones not reporting, I’d really be able to nail this all down. Feel free to follow through on that with this “State Trends” PDF or Powerpoint documents list, here or this “state facts map” here, if anyone’s so inclined.

I must conclude by saying I do take most if not all of what AGI publishes with a shaker of salt, but for the sake of argument and fairness, I used the CDC and AGI as starting points. Certainly neither of them could be accused of being “pro-life” or “religious” sources.