Planned Parenthood’s annual report for 2023-2024 was released earlier this month. Here’s what we learned in this amateurish account implausibly titled “A Force for Hope.”
The nation’s number one abortion seller performed 402,230 abortions in a 12-month period, an increase of 9,515 over the previous year’s 392,715.
U.S. taxpayers handed over $792.2 million dollars to Planned Parenthood, an increase of $93.2 million over the $699 million we gave the organization the year prior.
What we don’t know is how many young lives were damaged by Planned Parenthood’s much-touted “gender affirming care,” because the report, oddly, doesn’t mention it.
“We will continue to ensure that people get the care they need, to educate people about sexual and reproductive health and rights,” the report states, “and to build a world where all people can hope, and dream, and plan.”
But is Planned Parenthood’s future as rosy as all that?
Maybe not.
The abortion advocates at NPR aired a story May 16 to explain, “Why so many clinics that provide abortion are closing, even where it's still legal.” The story talks about Planned Parenthood’s decision to close four abortion mills in Michigan, including the only one in the state’s Upper Peninsula.
Planned Parenthood has cited financial concerns for the closings, but according to NPR, it has not cut its executives’ paychecks in Michigan.
Abortion-loving Illinois also watched as the doors permanently closed on four Planned Parenthood centers there, and the Manhattan flagship of the organization was one of five to be closed in no-limits New York.
“Planned Parenthood's national federation brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the majority of which is spent on policy and legal efforts rather than state-level medical services,” NPR noted.
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The organization routinely fights every single pro-life law passed on every level of government, a costly endeavor that’s apparently more important to the highly paid executives than providing “care.”
The Flatwater Free Press in Nebraska this month wrote about the abortion chain’s Omaha facility, where the last nurse on staff recently resigned. Seven current and past employees said, “insufficient training has led to problems beyond burnout,” and blamed the current mess on “out-of-state executives.”
Even the very abortion-friendly New York Times has reported on Planned Parenthood’s woes, notably in a story from February that ran under the headline, “Planned Parenthood in Crisis as Patients Report Botched Care and Tired Staff.”
The story notes that “some clinics are so short of cash that care has suffered. Many operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff, as turnover has increased because of rock-bottom salaries.”
So, the people who assist in the actual abortions are underpaid, while executives take home fat salaries. CEO Alexis McGill Johnson earned $904,014 in 2023, while three others earned more than $520,000 each, and four more garnered about $400,000 each, according to documents published by Pro Publica.
Priests for Life has been part of an ongoing effort to convince our federal government to stop funding Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers and the organization’s inexplicable financial woes add fuel to our fire.
Why should any of our tax dollars go to an organization that prioritizes executive salaries and funds expensive - often losing - battles against laws to protect the unborn and their mothers? The answer is obvious: They shouldn’t.
President Trump already has deprived the organization of some $20 million by withholding Title X family planning funds from abortion providers, and we are optimistic the budget bill passed by the House on May 22 will likewise pass the Senate while retaining language to eliminate Medicaid reimbursement for Planned Parenthood, thus depriving it of its largest revenue stream from U.S. taxpayers.
If that happens, we can be assured that more shoddy “care” will be offered at Planned Parenthood killing centers, but we can also hold out the hope that the nation’s biggest abortion seller could soon enough find itself out of business.
What a great day that would be.
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Editor's note: Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. She is the author of Everything You Need to Know About Abortion – For Teens. This articles is a Pregnancy Help News original.
