Why Defund Planned Parenthood? Here Are 434,450 Reasons

Deliberate Parenthood launched its 2024-2025 annual report over the Easter weekend. Yearly, the publication gives a glimpse into Abortion Inc.’s medical and monetary knowledge. It was a record-breaking 12 months for abortions. Taxpayer funding was at an all-time excessive. 

It’s been virtually 4 years for the reason that Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group determination overturned Roe v. Wade. You’ve in all probability seen the headlines about brick-and-mortar clinics closing or consolidating lately, however that’s truly a long-term pattern. Deliberate Parenthood operates almost 600 clinics now, in comparison with 860 clinics 20 years in the past.

There are actually challenges to Deliberate Parenthood’s enterprise mannequin, however that hasn’t stopped efforts to advertise abortion in each state. Since Roe was struck down, Deliberate Parenthood has helped 171,000 ladies journey get abortions, spending $3.7 million final 12 months to help 12,200 purchasers.

It’s value noting that for all of the Left’s discuss abortion as “reproductive care,” Deliberate Parenthood delivered zero infants in 2025 and carried out 143 abortions for each adoption referral made final 12 months.

 Within the medical knowledge part, Deliberate Parenthood reported:

• 434,450 abortions, an all-time excessive, up from final 12 months’s 402,230 abortions.
• 331,417 breast most cancers screenings and Pap exams, down from 364,594 the earlier 12 months.
• 125,422 preventive care visits, down from final 12 months’s 129,594.
• 3,038 adoption referrals, up from 2,148 the earlier 12 months.
• 2,268,991 contraceptive companies, down from 2,223,680 the earlier 12 months.
• 2.09 million sufferers, barely up from final 12 months’s 2.08 million, however fairly a drop-off from the two.4 million reported 5 years in the past.

Right this moment, harmful abortion drugs distributed by the mail make it attainable for the abortion business’s tentacles to achieve all over the place—even states which have enacted sturdy pro-life protections. Deliberate Parenthood, for its half, is offering mail-order abortions in 24 states, a direct results of coverage selections made in earlier administrations.

Abortion drugs have been obtainable within the U.S. since 2000, however they weren’t all the time the go-to technique. Issues modified in 2016. President Barack Obama weakened security protocols for abortion drugs, together with increasing the cutoff from seven to 10 weeks’ gestation and ending necessities for in-person post-abortion care.

In 2021, President Joe Biden used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to permit abortion drugs to be obtained on-line by way of telehealth and shipped by the mail. Within the graph above you possibly can see the corresponding rise in abortions in 2016 and 2021 due to these reckless insurance policies. Deliberate Parenthood for its half reported a 31% enhance in telehealth appointments in only one 12 months. Abortion drugs are a key purpose.

Deliberate Parenthood’s annual report exhibits it continues to even be a frontrunner within the trans industrial complicated, whereas burying its gender companies in an “different” class. The group’s public reporting first talked about these choices in 2015-2016. On the time, there have been 8,153 procedures in that class. Within the newest report, that quantity ballooned to 50,411, and Deliberate Parenthood now brags that it’s “the second-largest supplier of hormone remedy” within the U.S.

Totally different accounting mechanisms, or maybe Deliberate Parenthood’s involvement administering COVID-19 vaccinations, could account for the dramatic spike in 2021. However there’s no approach to know from the annual report, as a result of Deliberate Parenthood has by no means offered a particular breakdown.

Final summer time, Congress handed the One Massive Lovely Invoice Act. Amongst different issues, it defunded abortion suppliers like Deliberate Parenthood of their Medicaid reimbursements for one 12 months (Medicaid makes up the majority of Deliberate Parenthood’s federal funding). That defund provision kicked in July 2025. This 12 months’s Deliberate Parenthood report covers the monetary 12 months ending June 30, 2025. We’ll have to attend for subsequent 12 months’s annual report back to see how the One Massive Lovely Invoice Act affected Deliberate Parenthood’s backside line.

However right here’s what we find out about Deliberate Parenthood’s funds proper earlier than the One Massive Lovely Invoice Act.

Within the monetary knowledge part, Deliberate Parenthood reported:

• $2.496 billion in web property, barely down from $2.522 billion the earlier 12 months.
• $832 million in authorities funding, up from $792.2 million the earlier 12 months.
• Greater than $2 billion in whole income, virtually equal to the earlier 12 months.
• $728.2 million in personal contributions and bequests, up from $684.1 million the earlier 12 months.

If Congress pursues one other finances reconciliation invoice, it should apply the defund provision to the total 10-year timeframe that different provisions are topic to. In any other case, Deliberate Parenthood will begin receiving Medicaid reimbursements once more on July 4, 2026.

What a horrible approach to have a good time America’s 250th birthday.

President Donald Trump, for his half, can reinstate the Defend Life Rule for Title X household planning funds. Throughout his first time period, this regulation enforced bodily and monetary separation of federal household planning grants from any recipient’s abortion exercise. Somewhat than adjust to the rule, Deliberate Parenthood walked away from $60 million in household planning grants. It seems the Division of Well being and Human Companies is on its approach to restoring this commonsense requirement.

 Greater than 400,000 girls and boys misplaced their life due to Deliberate Parenthood final 12 months, with lots of their moms harmed within the course of too. A professional-life Congress and presidential administration ought to help actual ladies’s well being care, not drive the American individuals to subsidize the abortion business and make 2026 one other record-breaking 12 months for Deliberate Parenthood.