Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report “Above & Beyond” for 2022-2023 is of special interest because it is the first by the abortion giant officially covering the time since the June 2022 overturn of Roe. As such, it gives people an idea as to how much business was and was not affected by the Dobbs decision overturning Roe and what steps the group has taken to keep the nation’s largest abortion chain open and busy.
In the report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) says that its affiliates performed 392,715 abortions in the service year running October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The report shows there had been no overall dropoff at its clinics since the 374,155 the group reported in its previous report.
Nailing down just how many abortions there have been nationally since Dobbs is a difficult enterprise, but if recent reports from Guttmacher turn out to be accurate, this means that Planned Parenthood clinics are now responsible for something like four out of every 10 abortions performed in the U.S.
With not just prenatal care and adoption referrals, but staples such as cancer screenings and even contraception at or near ten or twenty year lows, one might be tempted to think that Planned Parenthood was financially suffering. But revenues at PPFA reached an all-time high of more than two billion ($2,054,300,000.000)! And given that revenues outpaced expenses by more than $178 million, it is clear that the organization has money to burn.
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All About Abortion
From the opening “Message from Leadership” PPFA’s president Alexis McGill Johnson and Board Chair Tanujah Bahal make their fixation on abortion clear. Placing their comments in the context of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision, the two say that their “health centers” have been through “the most trying of times.”
Yet their clinics kept their doors open, welcoming patients from “down the street” and “from two, or three, or five states over.”
Later, the report details how that with more than 20 states “banning” some or all abortions, the staff was “moving mountains” by “finding appointments in other states and the resources to get patients there,” and “building as much capacity as possible for abortion appointments.”
The travel of abortion patients from pro-life to pro-abortion states was not an organic groundswell of suddenly desperate women but an orchestrated result. Planned Parenthood proudly admits that “In the year after the decision, 90 patient navigators across 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates helped more than 33,000 people get the transportation and travel support, financial assistance, and referrals they needed to get abortion care.”
Money was a big part of the increase in abortions seen at Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics post-Dobbs. PPFA says that the organization “expanded direct financial support to help patients cover the expenses of abortion care and travel.” They don’t say how much money they gave, but the group says, “More than 15,000 people received assistance to help cover travel costs,” and “More than 50,000 people received support to cover the costs of their abortion.”
In other words, many pregnant women on the fence about abortion, perhaps being held back by the costs or logistics, opted for abortion after receiving an offer of subsidized (or free) travel and medical care from Planned Parenthood.
Abortion behind many other activities
Covering all their bases, Planned Parenthood wishes people to know how broadly they advertise and promote their abortion services. They note that 863,000 visited its special abortionfinder.org
PPFA also notes that 49 of its affiliates offer “telehealth” services, and that they had 123,855 telehealth appointments in 2022. It is not specified here, but many abortion groups began setting up remote sales and delivery of abortion pills by telemedicine in 2021 after the Biden administration signaled its support for the practice.
Planned Parenthood wants people to know that they did not simply accept the High Court’s decision in Dobbs and give states the ability to determine their organization’s destiny. PPFA says that their lawyers have 30 open cases in the courts challenging abortion limits in 16 states and federal policies put in place by previous pro-life administrations. Altogether, Planned Parenthood says they and their coalition partners had filed suits about “bans” in 20 states.
They admit they were not successful in every state, but PPFA says that even where restrictions were ultimately upheld, “the delay Planned Parenthood fought for meant that more people could get the care they needed when they needed it.”
Working in social media, PPFA launched a national campaign to “destigmatize” abortion, getting women to tell their stories about their abortions. Also, when many states instituted protections for unborn, Planned Parenthood did a “Patient Reassurance Campaign” in English and Spanish for anyone confused about where they could go for (abortion) care.
More about the Money
Just over half of PPFA’s two billion dollars in revenue went toward expenses for “medical services” ($1.1445 billion) like abortion, contraception, cancer screenings. Planned Parenthood doesn’t detail how much money came from each, but abortion is one of the group’s pricier services.
To get some idea of its economic impact, though, costs at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic range from around $500 for an early chemical abortion to $2300 for a later surgical abortion. At a minimum, this leads us to believe that abortion brings in at least $196 million, though a figure at least twice that is not out of the question.
Planned Parenthood has not been above using the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs to boost giving. Revenues from “Private Contributions and Bequests” reached what is believed to be an all-time high of $997.5 million.
How much of this money went towards the subsidized or free abortions or abortion travel that we talked about earlier is unknown, but this sort of strategic giving helped keep abortions and revenues high at Planned Parenthood during what were supposed to be the organization’s darkest hours.
Of course, the government continued to be a big source of money for Planned Parenthood, responsible for about 34% of the group’s revenues. Given that $699.3 million in ‘Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants” represented a new record in taxpayer support, it is perhaps surprising that there weren’t more abortions, with so many of these women traveling from states where unborn children are protected to states where abortions are actually funded by the state.
That huge amount of government money is significant. It is probably one of the reasons that Planned Parenthood spends $46.7 million in “Public Policy” and $113 million in “Advocacy” to protect the human destruction that is essential to their bottom line.
Increasing abortion is the bottom line
There is only oblique reference to it, but Planned Parenthood and its affiliates have been doing a lot to try to keep their abortion business busy.
Employees in states with protections for the unborn have turned into travel agents shepherding people to Planned Parenthood clinics in neighboring states. Affiliates in those abortion friendly states have beefed up staff, expanded facilities, added mobile abortion clinics to handle overflow.
Where they can, many Planned Parenthood clinics have added chemical abortions by telemedicine, so that patients do not even need to come into the clinic to get their abortion pills. So far, we don’t believe these clinics are selling or shipping those pills to women in pro-life states, but court and administrative rulings may change that in the future.
While PPFA may not have seemed to have been as active on the national scene, they have clearly been active at the state level. They fought any pro-life laws and moved as many patients as possible to states where they have strong affiliates and high capacity mega-clinics.
Planned Parenthood has long been the biggest, most powerful, and most deadly abortion promoter and provider in the U.S. Now, even with Roe in the rear view window, PPFA is poised to go “Above & Beyond” whatever horrible things they’ve done in the past.
LifeNews.com Note: Randall O’Bannon, Ph.D., is the director of education and research for theNational Right to Life Committee. This column originally appeared at NRL News Today.
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