Planned Parenthood Sets New Diabolical Record for Abortions and Taxpayer Funding as It Lies About Plummeting Cancer Screenings

The numbers coming out of Planned Parenthood’s recently released annual report are horrifically vulgar. One thing is undeniably clear to anyone brave enough to look under the hood: Despite its lies, Planned Parenthood’s core business is abortion. Yet Planned Parenthood desperately throws up smokescreens, attempting to mask the reality that abortion remains its primary focus – and its most profitable one.

The abortion behemoth would like you to believe otherwise. The problem for Planned Parenthood is that the numbers just don’t lie.

Gone are the days of maintaining a facade of providing comprehensive healthcare. Planned Parenthood’s sharp decline in non-abortion services continues to drop like a rock. Fewer resources than ever are being devoted to life-affirming services or preventative care despite the massive increases in taxpayer funding.

Record-Breaking Numbers for Killing Babies

In its latest annual report, paradoxically titled “A Force for Hope,” Planned Parenthood appears to be living its best life, boasting about the 402,230 babies it killed last year – an all-time high for abortions. This represents roughly 40% of all abortions performed in the United States during the same period. Regrettably, the organization has brought anything but “hope” to the women it targets, to those damaged by abortion, and not to mention the millions of babies who don’t make it out of a Planned Parenthood clinic alive.

Disturbingly, this increase occurred after the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Even as many states restricted abortions, Planned Parenthood found a way to end more lives.

Also worthy of note, through Planned Parenthood Direct, which sounds like a diabolical subscription service of death, it speedily provided an additional 560,000 “emergency contraception kits” – code for abortion pills like the morning-after pill – an increase over the previous year. As we’ve explained before, Planned Parenthood does not count these potential abortifacients (any drug or chemical that induces abortion) in its abortion total. Yet we know that “emergency contraception kits” will be used to end the lives of innocent babies.

And to further their abortion numbers, Planned Parenthood has continued its new niche in the post-Dobbs era: abortion tourism. According to the report, in its second year of providing such services, it spent over $3.4 million in “direct patient assistance” to help transport 12,500 women across state lines to kill their babies – a disturbing practice tailor-made for sex traffickers. This support covered not just the abortion procedure but also transportation, meals, hotel stays, and even dependent care. On average, that’s $275 per baby to help facilitate the death of an unborn child.

Taxpayer Funding Ballooned Under the Biden Administration

As Americans struggled with inflation and worked harder than ever just to get groceries into their refrigerators, Biden and his political allies threw huge amounts of funding at Planned Parenthood as it raked in nearly $800 million in taxpayer dollars – also an all-time high. The jump in taxpayer funds received by Planned Parenthood last year was game-changing for the organization, receiving nearly 12% more than the previous year. To put that into perspective, this single-year surge in taxpayer support nearly matches the total increase Planned Parenthood saw over the previous five-year span (2018–2023).

For the first time, it directly admitted that this massive influx of taxpayer dollars increases abortions. In response to the House of Representatives voting to defund the abortion giant, Planned Parenthood actually put out a press release stating, “If this bill passes, people will lose access to essential, often lifesaving care – cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing, and yes, abortion.”

Shockingly, Planned Parenthood actually said the quiet part out loud.

This statement admits what pro-abortion groups often deny: that abortion is included in the “essential” care funded by taxpayers. By warning that abortion access is threatened if funding is cut, it proves that tax dollars are directly tied to abortion services. It exposes the reality that defunding Planned Parenthood would impact abortion – confirming our tax dollars support the killing of unborn babies.

Cancer Screenings Take a Back Seat at Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood is also engaged in a bold-faced lie. While publicly claiming that defunding the abortion giant would cause “people [to] lose . . . cancer screenings,” the data tells a VERY different story. Since 2009, Planned Parenthood’s cancer screenings have dropped by 76% (with last year being the second-lowest on record), even as their taxpayer revenue has nearly doubled during the same time period – even as cancer diagnoses have exploded among our population. In the most recent report, pap tests and breast exams amounted to just 364,600 services – a shockingly low number for an organization that claims to care about women’s health. In comparison, abortion accounted for nearly as many services (402,230) as all cancer screenings combined.

Breast exams have especially seen a significant drop. Planned Parenthood performed a paltry 191,000 exams in 2024 – a 77% drop since 2009, while breast cancer diagnoses nationwide have increased year after year. That’s a troubling trend – and one that Planned Parenthood should be embarrassed to be on the wrong side of. Planned Parenthood continues to tell us it is focused on women’s health and not abortions. Yet the more money we give it, the less “good” it does and the more babies it kills.

The Trend for Non-Abortion Services Is Ugly

Consider these additional categories that saw steep declines in services – all while Planned Parenthood received a record amount of government funding. This stark contrast raises serious questions about priorities and accountability. If taxpayer dollars are at an all-time high, why are lifesaving services at an all-time low?

• Since 2009, Planned Parenthood has seen a 76% drop in prenatal services such as ultrasounds. The last thing Planned Parenthood wants is for the mother to connect with her baby via ultrasound. According to the Lozier Institute, 75% of women at risk for abortion will deliver their baby after viewing an ultrasound.
• Adoption referral numbers, another life-affirming alternative, tell a similar story. Last year, Planned Parenthood made just 2,148 adoption referrals. That’s roughly 1 referral for every 187 abortions performed. In 2011, that ratio was 1 to 145. The numbers speak for themselves, and they reflect a growing neglect of options that don’t end in abortion. So much for being pro “choice.”
• Since 2016, Planned Parenthood has seen a 42% drop in well-woman exams and preventative care visits.
• A drop of 75% in colposcopy procedures, or cervical exams, since 2009.
• 129,594 preventive care visits were performed in 2024, down nearly 43% since 2016.

As its latest report affirms, Planned Parenthood isn’t going down easily. In the wake of the undercover videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s gruesome sale of aborted babies’ body parts, individual states across the country said enough was enough. They took legal and legislative action to defund Planned Parenthood – to stop giving our money to the abhorrent abortion industry. One of the first was South Carolina, which sought to block state taxpayer funds, or Medicaid reimbursements, from supporting abortion clinics, prompting an immediate federal lawsuit by Planned Parenthood.

That case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, and we filed an amicus brief supporting South Carolina. The case challenges whether individual Medicaid recipients can sue states that disqualify abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding. In our amicus brief, we argue that post-Dobbs, abortion policy and funding decisions should lie with the states. Forcing states to fund abortion providers undermines state sovereignty and violates the principles of the Medicaid Act. We expect a decision by the end of June.

In addition, we are urging Congress to pass legislation defunding Planned Parenthood at the federal level. Not another dime of our money should go to a deceptive killing machine like Planned Parenthood.

The ACLJ is battling Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry from multiple directions. We are defending pro-life advocates whose constitutional rights are criminalized and whose voices are silenced. We are not only filing to defend Pregnancy Resource Centers but also running PR campaigns to counter state-sponsored smear campaigns. In a post-Dobbs world, we are battling in the states to protect pro-life policies through the implementation of a multi-state effort. And, of course, we are exhausting all avenues to defund Planned Parenthood of our taxpayer dollars – once and for all.

The ACLJ has been relentlessly battling for the unborn for 35 years, and we have no plans of slowing down in our pursuit of justice for all, born or unborn. Join us.