'DEFUND 250': 10 facts Planned Parenthood lied about or denied

On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of her founding — but unless Congress votes to continue banning federal Medicaid dollars from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, July 4 will also be the day that America's most prolific killer of preborn children will see those taxpayer dollars once again pouring into its bank accounts.

Planned Parenthood deserves to be permanently defunded — and Live Action News' series, 'DEFUND 250,' plans to remind the public of many reasons why.

Planned Parenthood has denied inconvenient truths for decades, and has even blatantly lied. It has even scrubbed information to hide the evidence. Here are 10 examples of this:

#1: Denying the truth about founder Margaret Sanger

Planned Parenthood praised their founder Margaret Sanger for decades, even naming her in the 2025 vision years ago, denying certain facts about her.

Sanger was a known eugenicist who selected population control enthusiasts, fellow eugenicists, and white supremacists to serve on her board; she was celebrated by Planned Parenthood for decades.

As evidence on Sanger could no longer be suppressed, the organization began to shift.

In 2015, as Live Action News previously documented, Planned Parenthood began scrubbing Margaret Sanger’s name from one of its most prestigious awards. Planned Parenthood’s “Maggie Award,” named “after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger,” quietly transitioned into the Planned Parenthood “Media Excellence Award.” (See image below.)

The organization did this without fanfare or explanation and without denouncing Sanger, despite knowing her associations with the Klan and eugenics. Sanger’s name was used on the award as recently as 2016 — which means that the awards these journalists received were issued in the name of Margaret Sanger, not “Media” — and to date, we have yet to hear of anyone returning their award or publicly rejecting the “honor” named after the famed eugenicist.

Though Planned Parenthood had begun to scrub Sanger’s name throughout the corporation, there was no public reckoning of her racist, eugenic ideology. That did not occur until 2020, when accusations of systemic racism and white supremacy came from within the corporation and surfaced publicly.

At that point, Planned Parenthood had to admit the true legacy of its founder.

#2: Planned Parenthood purges prenatal care from websites after Live Action investigation

At one time, Planned Parenthood suggested that prenatal care was the organization’s “fastest growing area” (see 1996-1997 annual report). But Planned Parenthood’s short-lived initiative to “implement a comprehensive prenatal care model” appears to have failed.

Undercover investigations conducted by Live Action revealed that prenatal care was not just difficult to find at Planned Parenthood facilities, but practically nonexistent. Even the workers themselves seemed baffled that anyone would call asking for prenatal services, which were advertised at the time on Planned Parenthood’s own website and later scrubbed.

The Prenatal Care Deception

Planned Parenthood’s national website is clear that only “some” Planned Parenthood facilities offer prenatal care.

#3: Sanger's name erased from fundraising efforts

Planned Parenthood of Florida's archived website once listed the Margaret Sanger Legacy Society among its “giving societies,” but the use of Sanger's name has since been expunged. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota also purged Sanger’s name from its donors’ group.

Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania’s 2019 Annual Report honored top donors with a notation in its “Margaret Sanger Circle,” a group recognized by this name for years. 

The “Margaret Sanger Circle” or “Margaret Sanger Society” has also been a distinction for donors to multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates, including Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, Houston, Utah, Massachusetts, Louisiana, California, and New York, and Washington.

A Facebook group operated by a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Iowa referred to the Margaret Sanger Action Hour as “a weekly gathering for Planned Parenthood volunteers, advocates, and supporters in Central Iowa.” That group page, operated by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, no longer exists.

Despite Planned Parenthood's president Alexis McGill-Johnson once defending Sanger publicly, the eugenicist founder is clearly being purged online.

#4: Planned Parenthood scrubs Sanger from buildings

For over a century, Planned Parenthood defended Sanger, even displaying her name on their buildings. However, in 2020, accusations of systemic racism and white supremacy from within the corporation surfaced and Planned Parenthood had to admit the truth about Sanger's legacy. Planned Parenthood corporate and at least 19 affiliates acknowledged a present-day problem of systemic racism within the organization.

As of June 9, 2020, Planned Parenthood’s website referred to its Bleecker Street facility in Manhattan as the Margaret Sanger Center, but scrubbed her name in the weeks that followed, changing the facility's name to the Manhattan Health Center of NY. 

Others were also silently changed.

If Planned Parenthood was actually sincere in dealing with its racist past and present, why did the corporation keep Sanger’s name on its abortion facilities until very recently?

#5: Planned Parenthood used to say ectopic pregnancy treatment isn't abortion. Then it erased it.

Planned Parenthood's website once stated, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion.”

But, in 2022, as pro-abortion media tried to convince women that ectopic pregnancy treatments and other life-saving procedures are abortions, Planned Parenthood purged its website of the statement about ectopic pregnancy treatment. Now, PP's website reads:

Ectopic pregnancies are unsafely outside of your uterus (usually in the fallopian tubes), and are removed with a medicine called methotrexate or through a laparoscopic surgical procedure. The medical procedures for terminating a pregnancy in the uterus (AKA abortion) are usually different from the medical procedures for terminating an ectopic pregnancy.

The clear distinction that abortion is not necessary to treat dangerous ectopic pregnancies was present on Planned Parenthood's website in 2020, 2021, and as late as July 14, 2022.

Since the Supreme Court’s reversal of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, media misinformation has spread like wildfire, intentionally muddling the true definition of abortion in the minds of the public.

#6: Planned Parenthood's ever-changing language about prenatal heartbeats

On June 24, 2022, the week the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, Planned Parenthood’s website claimed that at 5-6 weeks, “A very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop” (emphasis added). Planned Parenthood also said that at 7-8 weeks that “The heart has formed.”

This language was present on Planned Parenthood’s website — with no apparent issues — in 2015, and was even there as far back as 2009.

Since then, however, Planned Parenthood claims on its website page about pregnancy that at 5-6 weeks, “A part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity. It sounds like a heartbeat on an ultrasound, but it’s not a fully-formed heart — it’s the earliest stage of the heart developing” (emphases added).

The website then added that at 7-8 weeks that “The heart forms.”

These inconvenient truths appear to have been scrubbed to promote abortion after multiple states passed so-called 'heartbeat laws.'

#7: Planned Parenthood purges traditional gender terms

Planned Parenthood, a top provider of so-called "gender-affirming care," normalizes changing gender anytime someone ‘feels’ like it. In an Instagram post, Planned Parenthood claimed, “Feeling like you’re multiple genders is totally normal and OK. Some people call this multigender, which is just as normal is female, male, transgender, or any other gender ideology.”

“Multigender people can be: More than one gender at the same time, Different genders in different situations, Different genders at different times,” Planned Parenthood claimed.

According to HuffPost.com:

Planned Parenthood's language has been evolving for a long time. One affiliate I spoke to, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, first began changing gendered language in its educational programs in the late 1980s, back when the group's focus was fighting homophobia and related bullying. At the time, PPSFL started eschewing the words 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' and using words like 'partner' instead.

That affiliate later merged to become PP of Greater New York.

Huffpost.com added:

In clinics, the patient intake form has changed to reflect the fact that gender is not a binary. Where there were two separate intake forms — one for men and one for women — there is now one that allows clients to describe themselves, write in their gender, and indicate the name they choose to use if it differs from their legal name.

#8: Planned Parenthood's misleads people to think it does mammograms, then backtracks

Planned Parenthood and their mouthpieces routinely claimed that defunding the organization would harm women who needed services like mammograms — the only problem is that Planned Parenthood never has provided that service — ever.

Planned Parenthood CEO Caught Making False Mammogram Claim

#9: Planned Parenthood lied about retraining staff

After Live Action released undercover footage exposing Planned Parenthood employees at seven facilities aiding purported sex traffickers by suggesting how to get abortions and birth control for their 14- and 15-year-old victims, the abortion chain told the media it would retrain thousands of staff members across the country to properly report suspected sexual abuse of minors to authorities.

An interview with Ramona Treviño, former Planned Parenthood manager in Sherman, Texas, revealed that those “retraining sessions” actually instructed staff how to identify undercover journalists (like Live Action founder Lila Rose) and how to determine whether they were being recorded — instead of helping employees identify and report potential abuse.

Planned Parenthood Lies about Training Staff to Report Sex Traffickers

#10: Planned Parenthood denies injuries, claims abortion is safe

After several emergency calls at various Planned Parenthood facilities, undercover actors at Live Action called Planned Parenthood and was told that abortion was "safe."

When asked if anyone had ever been hurt at the Planned Parenthood facility, the staffer — who worked at a facility where emergencies had been recorded — denied any injuries had happened there.

Investigation reveals Planned Parenthood lying about abortion injuries

Planned Parenthood is not about truth — it's about abortion.