Planned Parenthood Goes “Above & Beyond” Expanding Abortions, Abortion Clinic Revenue, and Taxpayer Funding to All-Time Highs

Planned Parenthood’s latest 2022–2023 annual report, “Above & Beyond,” celebrates the most abortions it has ever committed as it rakes in all-time high taxpayer funding and exorbitant profits. While Planned Parenthood remains the nation’s largest abortion provider, it deceptively claims to be expanding health care services – yet what it really means is more abortions. And it has gone above and beyond to achieve that goal.

In fact, Planned Parenthood went above and beyond, committing 392,715 abortions for an appalling record high number of babies killed. That’s 18,560 more lives ended than the previous year.

Further, Planned Parenthood provided 552,721 “emergency contraception kits.” As we’ve explained before, Planned Parenthood does not count these potential abortifacients (any drug or chemical that induces abortion) in its already shocking abortion total. Yet we know that “emergency contraception kits” can be used to end the lives of innocent babies.

Sharp Decline in Non-Abortion Services

While Planned Parenthood celebrates its ghoulish abortion expansion and excessive taxpayer funding, it continues a downward trend in adoption referrals. It reports the lowest number of adoption referrals in 10 years: a mere 1,721 adoption referrals. That’s only 1 adoption referral for every 228 babies killed. Is this what they call “unbiased care”?

Adoption referrals are not the only non-abortion service in decline. In the past year, Planned Parenthood decreased the number of cancer screenings and prevention provided, well-woman exams, preventative care visits, and contraceptive services. It also decreased in several of its non-abortion procedures, including colposcopies, LEEP procedures, and cryotherapy.

This is a disturbing trend we’ve seen for years. In the past five years:

• Well-woman exams and preventative care decreased by 39.35%.
• Prenatal services decreased by 35.48%.
• Cancer screening and prevention decreased by 18%.
• Adoption referrals decreased by 60%.

And while non-abortion services plummeted, in the same five-year period, abortions increased by nearly 14%, private funding shot up by almost 70%, and taxpayer funding increased by 13%. Year after year, Planned Parenthood funding reaches record highs – all while playing the victim.

All-Time High Funding

This year, Planned Parenthood laments facing “the most trying of times;” but in the past year alone, its private contributions increased 44% from the previous year, to just shy of $1 billion. And it closed the year with a shocking all-time high of $2 billion in revenue.

That’s right. Planned Parenthood raked in $2 billion, including another hike in taxpayer funding. As inflation soars and Americans struggle to make ends meet, taxpayer funding reached nearly $700 million – another all-time high for the abortion giant. At a time when government spending should be curbed, your hard-earned money is being used to commit the slaughter of unborn children – for profit. Planned Parenthood ended the year with over $178 million in profits, fueled by its big abortion business – its third-highest year EVER. In fact, Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic revenue (“Non-Government Health Services Revenue”) set a record high.

Abortion Across State Lines

With the massive coffers lining its pockets, Planned Parenthood is going above and beyond to facilitate abortion across state lines, focusing its devious efforts on those living in states with abortion bans. Since the overturning of Roe, Planned Parenthood has ramped up its deadly efforts to transport expectant mothers across state lines for abortions.

In 2023, Planned Parenthood launched a study focused on how it could more effectively prey on expectant mothers who must travel out of state for abortions. The abortion giant coordinated efforts to transport at least 33,000 unborn children across state lines to be killed (providing transportation, travel support, financial assistance, and referrals) – all in the name of “abortion care.” Planned Parenthood covered travel costs for more than 15,000 abortions; and more than 50,000 received money to pay for their abortions.

Planned Parenthood also went above and beyond to strategically target states with litigation. In the wake of Dobbs, numerous states reassessed their abortion laws. But prior to Roe v. Wade being overturned, many states already had laws banning abortion on the books. In a relentless attempt to expand abortion on demand to every state, Planned Parenthood has 30 open cases that challenge abortion policies in 16 states. Its plan is to create a “better future;” for Planned Parenthood, that means more abortion, not more health care.

Global Target

Planned Parenthood’s better future also includes a global target. Through training and litigation, Planned Parenthood Global is infecting hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with its radical pro-abortion ideology.

In the name of reproductive rights, it partners with 80 organizations worldwide and even admits that 90% of the countries it focuses on have so-called “restrictive or highly restrictive” abortion laws. Planned Parenthood is all about abortion and will stop at nothing to expand its evil empire.

The Myth of Reproductive Rights

Repeatedly, the far Left equates abortion with “reproductive rights” or “choice.” However, we know they don’t celebrate the freedom to choose life. And while Planned Parenthood boasts of “unbiased care,” where’s its data on assisting women or families who choose life and parenthood? For each individual prenatal service provided in 2022–2023, Planned Parenthood performed 62 abortions. How many women chose parenthood? This data is notably absent from its report.

Think of it this way: There are over 3.6 million live births in the U.S. each year, and tragically about a million abortions. That’s nearly four babies born for every baby killed. Yet Planned Parenthood kills – aborts – 62 babies for every single individual prenatal service it provides. We know that Planned Parenthood bloats its data on “services” to hide its abortion figures, such that a single prenatal service can be as simple as an ultrasound. In fact, we know from prior reports that Planned Parenthood could rack up six to seven “services” in a single prenatal visit. As we’ve explained before:

With the accounting shenanigans that Planned Parenthood uses to inflate its numbers, we know it’s referring to individual services, not women or babies helped. For every ultrasound, 60 babies are killed. For every second-trimester exam, another 60 babies are killed.

The Biden Administration uses the same euphemism (“reproductive rights”) for abortion. Earlier this year Vice President Kamala Harris launched her “Reproductive Freedoms Tour.” Her goal? To fight back against “extreme attacks” on abortion (“reproductive freedoms”). She even made a so-called “historic” tour of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota, where she celebrated Planned Parenthood’s “true leadership.” Of course, to the Biden Administration, “leadership” means expanding abortion.

We’ve warned you how the Biden Administration is more committed to serving the abortion lobby than ever before. President Biden declared in his State of the Union Address: “I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.” However, the ACLJ has not lost hope. We are fighting back against this unconstitutional attack on life.

We filed three amicus briefs in the Supreme Court abortion pill case. This case is particularly important as the abortion pill has become the most common method of abortion in the United States. We also stepped in to protect the First Amendment rights of pro-life sidewalk counselors and those targeted simply for wearing pro-life apparel in federal institutions – and won. We took action on behalf of Native American leaders opposing the expansion of abortion. We filed a brief at the Supreme Court on behalf of pro-life Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) to defeat the coordinated assault on PRCs’ lifesaving services.

The ACLJ’s mission is straightforward. We defend your religious and constitutional liberties, and the right to life is fundamental to liberty. We honor life because God is the author of life. While Planned Parenthood goes above and beyond to destroy life, the ACLJ will always fight to protect the right to life and defend those who cannot defend themselves.