The 3% Myth

Even as Planned Parenthood spent an unprecedented $30 million* to influence the November 2016 elections and keep its taxpayer funding flowing, Live Action released a new video that shows voters how the abortion chain covers up a business model that is focused on abortion, not on women’s health care.

To justify its half billion dollars in taxpayer funding, Planned Parenthood downplays abortion — falsely claiming that it only makes up three percent of its business — and instead plays up its cancer screenings and “women’s health care.”  

However, Planned Parenthood’s own numbers prove it’s an abortion corporation, focused on abortion, not on women’s health care.  Planned Parenthood doesn’t perform a single mammogram, and it performs less than one percent of all pap tests in the United States, yet it commits over 38.7 percent of America’s abortions.

Planned Parenthood is the single largest abortion chain in America, committing 970 abortions a day and over 354,000 abortions last year alone.

Planned Parenthood is so focused on abortion that it aborts 133 children for every one child it refers out for adoption.  If a woman with an unwanted pregnancy goes to Planned Parenthood, that child is 160 times more likely to be poisoned or dismembered than to be put up for adoption to a waiting family.

Live Action’s new video is a powerful tool for activists to counter one of the biggest lies Planned Parenthood continues to spread.

Planned Parenthood’s U.S. market share for women’s Pap tests is 0.93%.

Planned Parenthood performed 272,990 Pap tests in fiscal year 2019-20, out of 29.4 million tests nationwide.

Planned Parenthood’s U.S. market share for clinical breast exams is 1.8%.  

Planned Parenthood performed 363,803 exams in fiscal year 2014-15, out of 20 million exams nationwide.  (Note:  These are physical exams, not mammograms. Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms.)

Planned Parenthood’s U.S. market share for mammograms is 0.0%.  

Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms.

Planned Parenthood’s U.S. market share for abortions is *38.7%.  

Planned Parenthood committed 354,871 abortions in fiscal year 2019-20, out of approximately *930,160 abortions nationwide.

* Numbers have been recently updated to reflect current abortion stats

Planned Parenthood aborts 133 children for every one child it refers out for adoption.  

Planned Parenthood referred 2,667 babies out for adoption in fiscal year 2019-20 (Planned Parenthood does not provide adoption services itself), while committing 354,871 abortions that same year.