Planned Parenthood is performing more abortions and receiving more federal funding, but serving fewer patients, according to its latest annual report.
The 2015-2016 report, released after months of delay, also revealed that the largest abortion provider in the US increased its profits by over 30 per cent.
This is despite performing 46 per cent fewer prenatal services, and 11.6 per cent fewer breast exams than the previous year.
‘Bottom line’
Pro-life campaigners have slammed the organisation, which calls itself one of America’s leading providers of affordable healthcare for women.
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said: “With its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood has unwittingly and effectively laid out the case for its own defunding.”
ACLJ lamented that the report confirmed what pro-lifers have been saying all along, that “Planned Parenthood is in the business of abortion, its priority is not in women’s health care, and its central focus is padding its bottom line.”
‘Heartbroken’
Summarising the report, ACLJ said: “Abortions are up. Profits are up. Taxpayer-funded government bailouts are up. Yet cancer screenings, prenatal services, and other women’s health services continue to drop. It’s stunning.
“As taxpayers, we should be upset. As humans, we should be heartbroken.”
It called on the US Government to urgently defund the abortion giant, and instead direct that money to “pregnancy resource centers and community health centers where women’s health care is actually the emphasis”.
Profits
Planned Parenthood last year received over $554 million from government grants and bursaries.
Arina Grossu, Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Reseacrh Council, said: “This sham organisation’s focus is increasingly on higher abortion numbers and higher profits.”
She added: “Why are we continuing to hand over half a billion dollars in taxpayer money to an organisation that kills America’s unborn children at record rates while lining their pockets with more than $77 million in profit?”
Deanna Wallace, of Americans United for Life (AUL), echoed Grossu’s views, saying: “Why should taxpayers continue to fund an abortion business that is providing fewer services, serving fewer patients, and closing clinics, despite increases to their government funding?”
‘Alarming statistics’
AUL also noted that Cecile Richards became leader of Planned Parenthood eleven years ago, and that her tenure can be framed by some “alarming statistics”.
Since Richards took over in 2006, there has been a 22.5 per cent decrease in the number of patients served.
As well as this, cancer screening and prevention services have fallen by 67 per cent, while abortions have gone up by 23 per cent.
Federal funding is up by just under 65 per cent, and the organisation’s total revenue has increased by 33 per cent to $1.35 billion.