New Study Follows the Money on Billion Dollar Abortion Industry

By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. | May 11, 2010

Vicki Evans, the Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has just published a 72 page study focused on the commercial markets created by legalized abortion.  The study is her thesis for the licentiate in bioethics that Evans just earned from a university in Rome.

According to this Catholic San Francisco story, the study shows that:

“Abortion in the United States has become a $1 billion-a-year industry quietly fostered over 40 years by a climate that is allowing related, morally suspect commercial offshoots to develop in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and life sciences, a new study alleges.”

Among the highlights of her findings:

– There were 1,787 abortion providers in the United States in 2005.

– Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s abortion market share grew from 12% in 1997 to nearly 25% in 2008.

– “PPFA presents a comprehensive case study on how business evolves to capitalize on changes in the law and the prevailing culture”: During the 1990 through 2008 election cycles, the abortion industry made political contributions of $15.76 million. Of this amount, $12.61 million, or 80%, went to abortion-supportive Democrats running for office.

– The predominant industries engaged in fetal tissue research are part of the emerging life-science industry: the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and biologics sectors. Commercial use of fetal tissue has historically revolved around the production of childhood vaccines but is now expanding into vaccines to treat flu, HIV and more.

– The cosmetics industry, particularly the anti-aging market segment, is  a beneficiary of the growth of abortion. From miracle creams and emulsions developed using fetal-cell technologies, to face lifts and cosmetic procedures injecting aborted fetal tissue to promote youth and vitality, this business sector has an “enormous and increasing demand” for fetal cells and organs.”

– A fetal parts industry could not have developed without a legal and protected abortion structure. Millions of fetuses that are by-products of abortion cannot technically be bought and sold, but a market does exist.

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