Planned Parenthood revealed in their most recent annual report that the national abortion conglomerate performed a record number of abortions in the last reporting period.
The annual report released on Tuesday, which covers the period between 2022 and 2023, said that Planned Parenthood completed nearly 393,000 abortions, marking a 5% increase from the previous time horizon. Local affiliates for Planned Parenthood helped more than 33,000 people obtain funds to travel for the murder of their preborn children, while Planned Parenthood organizations provided over 50,000 people with financial aid for the costs of their abortions.
Much of the report discussed how Planned Parenthood adapted to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, after which more women crossed state lines to obtain abortions and others increasingly turned to abortion pills ordered through the mail. The report said that some 863,000 people accessed their new website meant as an “authoritative source for abortion information,” an initiative to divert women away from “crisis pregnancy centers and anti-abortion rights sources.”
Planned Parenthood received more than $699 million in government reimbursement payments and grants during the last fiscal year, marking a 4.2% increase from the previous period. The organization also received $998 million in private contributions and bequests.
Beyond the record number of babies murdered by Planned Parenthood, other data indicate that the number of abortions in the United States continues to increase even after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. One analysis from the Guttmacher Institute found that 511,000 preborn children were murdered nationwide in the first six months of last year, an increase from 465,000 in a comparable period three years ago. The pro-abortion entity also estimated that some 63% of abortions were conducted via abortion pills last year, indicating a massive increase from 53% of overall abortions three years prior.
“The latest numbers released in Planned Parenthood’s annual report subvert pro-life claims that the murder of innocent children in the womb is slowing down,” Zach Conover, the communications director of End Abortion Now, said in comments to The Sentinel.
Roughly fourteen states were indeed widely reported to have fully banned abortion after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, yet most states with pro-life majorities in their legislatures have laws explicitly exempting women from prosecution in the case of an abortion, a reality which critics say fails to uphold justice and allows the abortion pill phenomenon to persist. Several dozen pro-life groups endorsed a letter two years ago asserting that “women are victims of abortion” and clarifying that they stand against “any measure seeking to criminalize or punish women.”
“The response of state and federal lawmakers must be to hold every participant in the crime of abortion accountable under the law,” Conover added to The Sentinel. “The target must be the act of abortion, not the regulation of the abortion industry.”
