On this day in 1916 eugenicist Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, with the help of her sister, Ethel Byrne in Brooklyn, New York.  This first facility laid the groundwork for the creation of abortion giant Planned Parenthood, which has turned the willful killing of babies in the womb into a profitable money making business.    In 2011 Planned Parenthood Federation of America committed 333,964 abortions for a profit of around $150 million and a total budget of $1.0482 billion.  In 2010 46 percent of the total PPFA budget comes from tax payer dollars in the form of government funding and they closed out the year with an excess of revenue over expenses of 18.5 million dollars

According to reports Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards makes over $400,000 in taxpayer subsidized salary.  While Ms. Richards IS a CEO of a billion dollar industry, Planned Parenthood also receives at least 46 percent (in 2010) their funding from various taxpayer sources.  Ms. Richards insists none of her salary comes from taxpayer funds – however just as taxpayer subsidies allows Planned Parenthood to do abortions by freeing the money that would be spent elsewhere, the same holds true for her compensation. 

Let us compare her salary to other jobs that are taxpayer subsidized:

• Average individual salary for a High School Teacher $43,795  
• Average individual salary for a Elementary School Teacher $40,199  
• Average individual salary for a Middle School Teacher $41,655  
• Average individual salary for a  Special Education Teacher, Preschool, Kindergarten, or Elementary School $41,260  
• Average individual salary for a Special Education Teacher, Secondary School $44,640  
• Average individual salary for a Special Education Teacher, Middle School $42,716  
• Average individual salary for a Secondary School Teacher $40,482
• Average salary of U.S. postal worker $40,000
• Average median salary for a firefighter is $42,053
• Average median salary for a police officer is $50,299
• Average Military enlisted pay $33,141*
• Salary of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder $199,700
• Salary of President Barack Obama $400,000
• Salary of Vice President Joe Biden $225,521 and all the cheese doodles he can eat
• Average salary of a Member of the House of Representatives $ 174,000

Ms. Richards is not the only highly paid individual who also receives federal subsidies.  Check out these subsidized salaries: 

• Salary of PBS President Paula Kerger $632,233
• Salary of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison $298,884 (plus another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations)
• Salary of president emeritus in 2009, Kevin Klose $1,200,000 
• Salary of Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell in 2008 $956,513
• Salary of Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who controls Big Bird $314,072

Please don’t miss the irony that while Big Bird is well paid to educate children, Ms. Richards is even better paid to eliminate them.

For more on abortion giant Planned Parenthood please visit Alliance Defending Freedom’s website Pretty Ugly.