Planned Parenthood says abortions at all-time high, taxpayer funding increasing
A Planned Parenthood facility in Indianapolis. / Credit: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock
CNA Staff, May 13, 2025 / 14:18 pm (CNA).
Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows a rising number of abortions and increasing federal funding for the abortion giant while other programs such as cancer screening and prevention services decrease.
Released on Mother’s Day, Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 annual report, titled “A Force for Hope,” revealed that the organization provided 402,230 abortions over the year, an increase of nearly 10,000 abortions from the previous year’s report and a record high in the abortion giant’s history.
As abortions increased, taxpayer funding increased as well. Public funding for Planned Parenthood was up by about $100 million from the previous year’s report. At $792.2 million, taxpayer dollars made up nearly 40% of Planned Parenthood’s revenue.
Amid the rise in abortions, Planned Parenthood also provided fewer health care services, with 45% fewer UTI treatments, 13.7% fewer primary care visits, and 8.1% fewer cancer screenings year over year.
Michael New, a senior associate scholar at the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute and assistant professor of practice at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, said this decrease was “consistent with broader long-term trends.”
“During the past 10 years, Planned Parenthood has done 54.4% fewer cancer screenings and 62.8% fewer prenatal services,” New told CNA. “Meanwhile the number of abortions that they have performed has increased by over 22%.”
Taxpayers “are paying more money for more abortions and less health care,” New said.
Citing data from the report, the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that almost 97% of women “seeking help related to their pregnancy at Planned Parenthood” were “sold an abortion” rather than health care.
Meanwhile, prenatal services, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals accounted for about 3% of Planned Parenthood’s services, according to the institute.
With various states strengthening their life-affirming laws, some women have sought abortion in other states. Planned Parenthood reported that it provided affiliates with $3.4 million in travel assistance for more than 12,000 patients seeking abortions.
Planned Parenthood also highlighted its legal team’s efforts to block laws that protect unborn children, highlighting pro-abortion victories in Iowa and Arizona. The report also hailed Kamala Harris as the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion facility.
*Pro-life voices call for defunding of Planned Parenthood*
The report “heightens the urgency to defund Big Abortion,” stated Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a pro-life network dedicated to ending abortion.
“As community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood locations 15 to 1 nationwide and offer far more comprehensive care, including for Medicaid patients, Americans have real choices and much better options,” the statement read.
Planned Parenthood reported more than $2 billion in income and $2.5 billion in net assets in the annual report.
New said the report “clearly shows that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion over health care.”
“From a Catholic perspective it is frustrating that the taxpayer dollars from countless faithful Catholics go to an organization that funds abortion, contraception, transgender treatments, and other activities that weaken families and undermine a culture of life,” New told CNA.
“It is my hope that Congress will take the lead of many states and defund Planned Parenthood during this budget cycle,” New continued.
Abby Johnson, a former director of Planned Parenthood turned pro-life activist, called the report “sickening.”
Continued government funding for Planned Parenthood “is beyond reason,” Johnson said in a statement shared with CNA.
“The blatant disregard for human dignity in all its forms that Planned Parenthood ardently supports — from the unborn baby to the mom to their own employees — is revolting,” Johnson said.