Planned Parenthood Killed 374,155 Babies in Abortions Last Year, Got $670 Million in Tax Dollars

Planned Parenthood’s 2021-2022 annual report is gone: Taxpayer funding is at an all-time high and abortion remains a top priority. Meanwhile, visits for actual health care—such as cancer screening and prevention services and prenatal care—continue to decline. The giant abortion It has also diversified its services portfolio, trying to corner the market in so-called transgender services.

The decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization by the Supreme Court, which overturned Roe against Wade last summer, will loom large in any analysis of abortion data. But this annual report actually covers health-related data from 2020 and 2021 and financial data for only part of 2022. That means we’re still months away from seeing how Roe’s death affects the Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers—and the point.

However, the data we have now is important. Here are some important takeaways you should know.

In the medical data section, Planned Parenthood reported:

• 374,155 abortions, down slightly to last year all time high of 383,460 abortions.
• 470,419 breast screenings and Pap tests, up from 373,755 last year.
• 187,234 preventive care visits, down from 127,095 last year (a year in which these services appear to be characterized as exams for the good girl).
• 1,803 adoption referrals, down from 1,940 last year and less than half the 4,279 reported just three years ago.

Planned Parenthood performed 208 abortions for every adoption referral. Meanwhile, the number of patients seen by Planned Parenthood decreased again (2.13 million).

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The Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life research and education organization, teaching the alarming long-term decline in actual health services. Since 2010, breast exams are down 74%, Pap tests are down 70%, prenatal services are down 85%, and contraceptive services are down 36%.

On the financial side of things, the difference is striking. Planned Parenthood reported:

• $2.3 billion in net assets, up from $2.1 billion last year.
• $670.4 million in government funding, up from $633.4 million last year.
• $1.9 billion in total revenue, up from $1.7 billion last year.
• $204.7 million in excess revenue (calculated by subtracting total expenses from total revenue), up from $133.7 million last year.
• 727,000 active individual contributors, up from 590,000 last year.

The Dobbs decision came down on June 24, 2022. This financial data covers through June 30, 2022. So, while the financial data is more up-to-date than the medical report data, we still don’t know the full Dobbs decision affects Planned Parenthood.

We know a lot about the changing landscape of abortion policy after Dobbs. More than a dozen states now protects women and unborn children through all nine months of pregnancy, with more states providing stronger protections in effect or under litigation. Abortion clinics in pro-life states have stopped performing abortions or moved to pro-abortion states. The national office of Planned Parenthood has announced a layoff—to the tune of about 100 employees—coming this month.

Planned Parenthood also announced its gameplan forward. It will increase funding for things like sexually transmitted disease testing, contraception, and so-called gender-affirming care.

Planned Parenthood’s aggressive purchase of radical gender ideology is not new. Long before Dobbs, the abortion giant has been methodically diversifying its portfolio of offerings. But the numbers show how quickly Planned Parenthood is cornering its market share.

Planned Parenthood first mentioned providing “hormone treatments for transgender patients” in its 2014-2015 annual report. It has 26 centers in 10 states that provide these interventions.

In its most recent report, Planned Parenthood said “41 affiliates provide gender-affirming hormone therapy.” And when you look at the data, the numbers are even more surprising.

The meteoric rise in the “Other Services” category is amazing. And by Planned Parenthood’s own admission (it doesn’t exactly do it in press rounds bragging about providing other types of services in this category), we know that transgender “health care” is accounts for most of the large increase.

Planned Parenthood does not provide a breakdown of transgender services on its own. These are buried in the “Other Services” category, which is bundled into a sub-category called “Other Procedures.” This category includes things like pediatric care, preventive care, and infertility services.

“Services” are counted by “discreet clinical interactions,” not by the number of individual patients. If Planned Parenthood provided a patient with a free condom, a pregnancy test, a sexually transmitted infection test, and an abortion within a year, that would count as four different services.

This is how Planned Parenthood downplays how important abortion is to its business: It obfuscates the math by providing an abortion procedure the same as providing a simple pregnancy test or free condoms—they all count as a “service. “

Moving forward in a post-Dobbs landscape, expect to see Planned Parenthood aggressively continue its abortion activism in liberal states. And wherever Planned Parenthood has a footprint—even if it doesn’t perform abortions there—you can bet transgender services are (or maybe someday will be) on the menu.

Congress, for its part, has a long to-do list to protect life in a post-Dobbs world. The Heritage Foundation has provided a roadmap for how to get started. At the very least, Congress should defund Planned Parenthood. This can be done by Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act. It would require groups seeking federal funding to certify that they will not perform abortions or fund other entities that do.

Federal policymakers have an opportunity to advance strong pro-life policies in the 118th Congress. Making sure Planned Parenthood doesn’t get another dime of taxpayers’ hard-earned money must be a priority.

LifeNews Note: Melanie Israel is a policy analyst at the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation. This column originally appeared in the Daily Signal.