Press Release
·Bad news for Planned Parenthood in defund battle: Abortion giant’s own stats show abortions increasing, services decreasing
New video shows Planned Parenthood abortions are up 27% and government funding doubled over 10 years while clients and cancer screenings declined
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 27, 2017) – As Congress works to stop federal taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, a new analysis of the abortion chain’s last 10 years of annual reports shows that it is losing clients, closing facilities, and has dramatically reduced health services, but it continues to increase abortions and has more than doubled its taxpayer funding since 2004.
National pro-life organization Live Action summarized its analysis in a new two-minute video: https://youtu.be/yJeLTE7aG78
From Planned Parenthood’s 2005-06 annual report (2004 statistics) to its most recent one in 2014-15, the numbers show that breast exams are down 60 percent, Pap tests are down 77 percent, and total cancer screenings are down 68 percent. Yet, over that same period, forced taxpayer funding has more than doubled to $553 million a year and abortions are up 27 percent.
Client numbers have also declined from three million in 2011 to 2.5 million in 2017, according to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ own statements.
“The fact that Planned Parenthood’s client numbers are decreasing and its breast exams and Pap tests are down 60 and 77 percent while abortions are up 27 percent is more evidence that Planned Parenthood’s focus is abortion, not women’s health care. Planned Parenthood is offering less health care to less women, yet its taxpayer funding has doubled over the last 10 years,” said Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action.
“Congress and President Trump can’t let the current 2017 budget reconciliation bill expire without ending the forced taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. Every day we delay, $1.5 million flows from taxpayers to the abortion chain, and that money allows it to keep its doors open daily to poison, dismember, and starve to death another 887 preborn children,” she said.
She continued, “Former Planned Parenthood managers have provided testimonials about how the abortion giant uses quotas to push cash-making abortions, doesn’t provide the health care it claims it does, and ‘treats women like cattle.’
“America’s women and children deserve better, and Washington must ensure that taxpayer money spent on health care for women is actually spent on health care, not on keeping the doors to America’s largest abortion chain open. Congress and President Trump must immediately redirect the hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies now going to Planned Parenthood to thousands of community health centers that provide more access and more health care for women and their families and that don’t commit 320,000 abortions every year.”
Data from Planned Parenthood:
(2004 numbers from 2005-06 annual report, 2014 numbers from 2014-15 annual report)
Clients (source: statements of President Cecile Richards (see video)):
2011: 3 million
2015: 2.7 million
2017: 2.5 million
Breast exams:
2004: 925,763
2014: 363,803
Pap tests
2004: 1,183,692
2014: 271,539
Cancer screening totals:
2004: 2,157,849
2014: 682,208
Abortions:
2004: 255,015
2014: 323,999