Report: Planned Parenthood of Michigan got $18M from state but still closed facilities

A recent report from the American Life League (ALL) reveals that Planned Parenthood of Michigan (PPMI) received nearly $18 million from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in 2024-2025.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Grant contracts show that the Michigan DHHS provided several grants to PPMI for its “services” and programs, totaling $18 million for 2024-2025.

• The grants paid for sex-ed programming, “family planning services,” and mifepristone (the abortion pill).

• Despite such funding, PPMI recently closed some of facilities, citing “threats to federal funding.”

THE DETAILS:

ALL’s STOPP arm was able to view grant contracts showing PPMI’s receipt of taxpayer funds in three areas.

First, PPMI was granted $329,776 for its sex-ed program, “Taking Pride in Prevention,” geared towards students ages 12-19. Live Action News has extensively documented the radical sex-ed programs that Planned Parenthood provides for young students, which often feature graphic and explicit curriculum that sexualizes children, while normalizing and promoting risky and age-inappropriate sexual behavior. Though the DHHS has a provision that PPMI can’t provide abortions or abortion referrals within the curriculum, there is nothing stopping it from encouraging abortion or sexual behavior, which increases the risk of pregnancy.

The second grant offered PPMI $14,798,008 for “Family Planning Services.” Though the DHHS’s Title X contractual obligations forbid any mention of abortion within such “family planning services,” the contract does state: “The focus of the program is to ensure statewide access to high-quality, client-centered reproductive health care services, including a broad range of contraception, and related preventive health services for individuals and couples to achieve their reproductive goals for family size, spacing of their children, or pregnancy prevention at low or no cost.”

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STOPP speculates that a Title X exception clause allows providers within the program to offer “nondirective counseling on abortion” without referring for abortions.

Thirdly, a Critical Medication Reserve grant gave PPMI $2,072,000 to “provide mifepristone to those who seek it.” The first drug in the abortion pill regimen, mifepristone is responsible for depriving the preborn child of the nutrients it needs to survive. The grant stipulates “The focus of the program is to ensure that individuals in Michigan do not lose access to a critical pharmaceutical product, which has been safely used in miscarriage management and the medical termination of pregnancy for decades.”

THE BACKSTORY:

Earlier this year PPMI announced that it was closing three of its facilities and consolidating two others, in favor of expanding virtual services. In a press release, the abortion giant cited “threats to federal funding,” as the reason for the closures, though in reality, affiliates are closing brick-and-mortar facilities in order to reduce overhead costs and focus more heavily on abortion pill sales, which reportedly make up nearly 70% of its abortions.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Despite the closures, ALL notes that given the DHHS funding, “Planned Parenthood of Michigan is hardly short on financial help for its continuous child killing and its perverted ‘education’ on sex and family planning.”