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Planned Parenthood’s just-released annual report reveals that the industry giant performed a record number of abortions last year – 392,715.
Planned Parenthood President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson and Board Chair of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Tanuja Bahal introduced its 2022-2023 annual report by referring to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that declared Roe v. Wade an unconstitutional event that “took away our right to control our own bodies and lives.”
And while the organization’s leaders bemoan that, since the Court’s ruling, “more than 20 states have banned some or all abortions,” the report reveals the group received a hefty raise from American taxpayers.
Taxpayer funding via government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements reached $699.3 million, as indicated in the most current report, up from $633.4 million in 2022, and an amount that is 34% of Planned Parenthood’s overall revenue.
“There’s not enough outrage, I think, to force the federal government to stop subsidizing abortion,” CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky said about the abortion giant’s increase in taxpayer funding.
He also observed the actual amount of government funding Planned Parenthood receives is probably even more than that:
Normally, when I talk to people, I have to say it’s over a billion because there are a lot of reimbursements that Planned Parenthood gets that are probably not included in the report. Especially through state subsidies and things like that since they’re so hooked into Obamacare. And they get a lot of money now through the trans grants that come out of HHS by the administration.
Planned Parenthood has touted that it is now the second-largest provider of transgender hormone drugs in the nation, and its current report boasts that 45 of its affiliates are now offering so-called “gender-affirming care” hormone drug treatments.
“I think they understand that, if abortion is not going away, and, if the Biden administration gets its way and the abortion pill is distributed like candy, then they can’t profit from that, especially since they’re fighting the practice that people see a doctor beforehand,” McClusky surmised. “Then, the next cash cow for them is the trans services.”
Nevertheless, according to McClusky, the big problem is that Congress continues to fund abortion.
“Just look recently at the most recent omnibus where, that we know of, at least two abortion facilities got over a million dollars from federal taxpayers and earmarks,” he pointed out.
In exchange for that taxpayer funding, the group that claims “abortion is health care” continues to perform less of other preventive and healthcare services.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), the research arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, summarizes data from Planned Parenthood’s reports each year.
For the 2022-2023 report, CLI details that, while this past year abortions comprised “97.1% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy resolution services,” the group’s “prenatal services, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals accounted for only 1.6% (6,316), 0.9% (3,604), and 0.4% (1,721), respectively.”
“According to data from Planned Parenthood’s own annual reports, since 2010: Total services are down 17.0%,” the pro-life group reports.
McClusky said that Republican members of Congress “need to start hearing from people back home.”
While national abortion legislation is very important – because we care just as much about the babies born in California as we do about babies born in Alabama – but, in the meantime, when you talk about saving as many lives as possible, imagine if the largest abortion provider in the world – Planned Parenthood – lost a billion dollars in revenue by no longer getting taxpayer funds. I’m sure it would get its money from the celebrities in the world and others, except taxpayers would no longer be paying for it. And I think pro-lifers would be on even ground finally. If we just stopped subsidizing merchants of death.
