In 2023, Planned Parenthood Got More Taxpayer Cash Than Ever
A recent report highlights that a notable majority of Americans oppose using their tax dollars to fund abortions,yet Planned Parenthood,the largest abortion provider in the U.S., continues to receive substantial federal funding-nearly $800 million from 2023 to 2024. Despite the Hyde Amendment restricting taxpayer money from directly subsidizing abortions,this funding is claimed to support Planned Parenthood’s operations. While the organization promotes the necessity of this funding for essential health services, statistics reveal that a vast majority of its pregnancy services focus on abortions rather than prenatal care. Critics argue that Planned Parenthood’s practices include legal violations and financial mismanagement, and they assert that community health centers and pro-life pregnancy centers serve pregnant women more effectively. pro-life advocates are urging lawmakers to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood and redirect taxpayer dollars away from abortion services. The call to action has gained traction among over 183 legislators across various states.
The majority of Americans oppose the use of their tax dollars to fund abortions yet Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country, consistently uses the hundreds of millions of dollars it receives in federal funding to prop up its baby-killing business.
According to the abortion giant’s latest annual report, Planned Parenthood raked in nearly $800 million in taxpayer funds from 2023 to 2024. During that same period, Planned Parenthood also performed a record number of abortions — more than 402,000.
While the Hyde Amendment technically forbids tax dollars from subsidizing abortions, the government’s decision to funnel hundreds of millions of Americans’ hard-earned cash to Planned Parenthood no doubt helped sustain its pro-abortion operations and mission. The $792.2 million Planned Parenthood received via “government health services reimbursement and grants” was responsible for the largest portion, 39 percent, of its 2023 to 2024 revenue.
Planned Parenthood and its corporate media allies often claim that cutting its federal funding will increase direct spending and keep its facilities from offering preventative care like cancer screenings. Approximately 97 percent of Planned Parenthood’s “pregnancy resolution services” between 2021 and 2022, however, were dedicated to abortions, not prenatal oversight or adoptions.
In addition to ending unborn lives or botching their attempts to do so, Planned Parenthood has a history of allegedly flouting federal law and wasting tax dollars, dispensing castrating drugs to confused minors, reportedly trafficking baby body parts, enabling abusers, allegedly performing unlicensed procedures and violating health and safety standards, opposing free speech, and conducting procedures that have resulted in mothers’ deaths.
Not only is Planned Parenthood bad at helping pregnant women and their children, but its facilities are outnumbered 15 to one by community health centers, which receive far less federal funding, and outperformed by another 2,600 pro-life pregnancy centers.
“This report heightens the urgency to defund Big Abortion and stop forcing taxpayers to fund an industry that destroys unborn lives and preys on women and girls,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said in a statement calling on the Republican-controlled Congress to finalize a “budget reconciliation process that finally gets taxpayers out of the abortion business.”
More than 183 lawmakers across 49 states joined the chorus of pro-lifers demanding the GOP majority in the U.S. House and Senate take action to “stop federal Medicaid dollars from going to Big Abortion” as soon as possible.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
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