{"id":2428772,"date":"2025-04-29T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-journalism-brought-to-you-by-planned-parenthood\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:45:56","slug":"politico-journalism-brought-to-you-by-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-journalism-brought-to-you-by-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico &#8216;Journalism,&#8217; Brought To You By Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitico-journalism-brought-to-you-by-planned-parenthood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2428772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the U.S., is currently sponsoring Politico&#8217;s Playbook newsletter, which has raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest given Politico&#8217;s coverage of the organization without Disclaimers.The exact cost of the sponsorship remains unconfirmed, though <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">past estimates suggested weekly sponsorships<\/a> could range from $50,000 to $60,000. <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Playbook includes Planned Parenthood&#8217;s logo prominently featured and advertisements for its services, which frame its role as focused on reproductive health while minimizing its extensive abortion services. In the 2021-2022 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood performed over 392,000 abortions\u2014over half of all abortions reported in the U.S.for that year\u2014and 97.1% of its pregnancy-related services where abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the newsletter, ads promoting bodily autonomy appear, which critics argue implicitly advocate for abortion rights. Planned parenthood reported nearly $2.1 billion in income for 2022-2023 and has faced accusations regarding the sale of fetal body parts and unsafe abortion practices, including a recent case involving a woman&#8217;s death due to complications from an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Politico, known for reporting favorably on abortion-related issues, often employs pro-abortion terminology and fails to provide a balanced view in its articles. The newsletter sponsorship has fueled discussions about media bias, especially regarding abortion and reproductive rights. Criticism extends to Politico\u2019s past publications that seemed one-sided, particularly following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and mentions the publication&#8217;s role in revealing sensitive court opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights growing scrutiny of both Planned Parenthood&#8217;s operations and media reporting on reproductive rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Planned Parenthood, the largest executor of abortions in the United States, is sponsoring Politico&rsquo;s Playbook newsletter this week, despite the fact that the media outlet routinely covers Planned Parenthood without a Disclaimer. <\/p>\n<p>Politico author Jack Blanchard did not respond when asked how much Planned Parenthood had paid for the spot. But in 2016, weekly sponsorships were &ldquo;expected to cost in the range of $50,000 and $60,000,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2015\/11\/30\/politicos-mike-allen-pushes-back-against-his-own-e-mails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to The Washington Post. Blanchard also failed to respond to queries about the process by which Playbook sponsors are selected and about who signs off on the selection.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Not only is Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s logo plastered at the top of each of this week&rsquo;s Playbook emails, but in a blurb mid-newsletter, the abortion group advertises its services and takes a potshot at &ldquo;lawmakers who oppose reproductive health,&rdquo; using a common euphemism for abortion services. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>fdrlst\/canva, screenshot from Politico       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The link provided in the ad takes readers to the website of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the 501(c)(4)&nbsp;arm of the organization. Most of the blurbs on that site try to paint Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s work as general women&rsquo;s health care, minimizing its role as an abortion mill. But the group administered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/bf\/a3\/bfa35e39-14e5-43c3-8192-de42ed9309f1\/2024-ppfa-annualreport-c3-digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">392,715 abortions<\/a> in its 2021-2022 fiscal year &mdash; that&rsquo;s more than half of the total number of abortions that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/ss\/ss7307a1.htm#:~:text=Total%20Abortions%20Reported%20to%20CDC,every%20year%20during%202013%E2%80%932022.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2022 for the entire country.<\/p>\n<p>And abortions &ldquo;made up 97.1% of Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-for-congress-to-defund-planned-parenthood\/\" title=\"It&#039;s Time For Congress To Defund ...\">pregnancy resolution services&#038;rdquo<\/a>; in 2021-2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2022-23-annual-report\/#_ftnref5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to a Charlotte Lozier Institute review of Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s annual report. &ldquo;[P]renatal services, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals&rdquo; made up less than 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Further down Tuesday&rsquo;s Playbook newsletter, two color ads declare in all-caps, &ldquo;everyone should have the power to control their own body and future&rdquo; &mdash; code for &ldquo;power to end the life of a child in the womb&rdquo; &mdash; and &ldquo;I&rsquo;m for Planned Parenthood.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>fdrlst\/canva, screenshot from Politico       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Planned Parenthood, <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2022-23-annual-report\/#:~:text=In%20its%202022%2D23%20annual,increase%20from%20the%20previous%20report.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which<\/a> &ldquo;reported nearly&nbsp;$2.1 billion in income and over $2.5 billion in net assets&rdquo; in 2022-2023, has been caught <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/22\/report-planned-parenthood-caught-selling-viable-fetuses-to-university-of-california-san-diego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selling<\/a> the body parts of aborted babies for a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/04\/15\/new-unsealed-documents-show-planned-parenthood-profited-from-aborted-baby-body-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profit<\/a>, allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/florida-investigation-of-planned-parenthood-clinics-finds-deficiencies-1438817376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offering<\/a> unlicensed second-trimester abortions, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/02\/07\/probe-demanded-of-planned-parenthood-doc-who-killed-woman-in-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaving<\/a> women dead in botched abortions. Just two months ago, in February, an 18-year-old woman died after a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado delayed the proper emergency treatment following a botched abortion at 22 weeks, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/testimony-teen-died-abortion-colorado-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">testimony<\/a> delivered to a Colorado House committee.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Politico often covers abortion and Planned Parenthood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">specifically<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/15\/missouri-abortion-access-court-ruling-019567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">using<\/a> pro-abortion terms and euphemisms like &ldquo;abortion access&rdquo; and &ldquo;abortion rights.&rdquo; An April 1 story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/planned-parenthood-push-transgender-rights-california-00265387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred<\/a> to Planned Parenthood as a &ldquo;reproductive care group,&rdquo; despite the fact that abortions are neither care nor pro-reproduction. That article laid out Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s legislative priorities in California with quotes from the CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and four sympathetic legislators. No one who might have disagreed with the group&rsquo;s agenda or pointed out the downsides of its legislative priorities was quoted in the story.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, Politico ran an &ldquo;exclusive&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/24\/abortion-rights-advocates-launch-100-million-campaign-00164528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">titled<\/a> &ldquo;Inside the $100 million plan to restore abortion rights in America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Leaders of the coalition say they want to make the procedure more accessible and affordable than ever before,&rdquo; the subhead declared. Alice Ollstein, the article&rsquo;s author and Politico&rsquo;s senior health care reporter, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/politicos-one-side-abortion-survey-exposes-media-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2022 to be a registered Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>When a Florida law limiting abortions after six weeks of gestation went into effect, Politico ran a sympathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/01\/florida-six-week-abortion-ban-00155305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> about the plight of Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities that were &ldquo;scrambling&rdquo; in its wake. <\/p>\n<p>Back in 2022, a few months after the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, Politico came out with a one-sided &ldquo;survey&rdquo; that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/politicos-one-side-abortion-survey-exposes-media-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> readers &ldquo;we want to hear from you&rdquo; if &ldquo;abortion laws [are] affecting your access to health care.&rdquo; You don&rsquo;t have to be a polling expert to detect the self-selection bias in such a survey. Specifically, the survey fished for stories from anyone who might have &ldquo;been denied emergency treatment for a miscarriage or pregnancy-related complication.&rdquo; It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ob-gyns-shatter-nine-of-the-most-common-abortion-myths-the-left-peddles-to-spook-women\/\" title=\"OB-GYNs Shatter Nine Of The Most Common ... Myths The Left Peddles To Spook Women\">common pro-abortion talking point<\/a> to claim that the court&rsquo;s decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> restricts care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. It <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/29\/no-dobbs-doesnt-stop-doctors-from-treating-ectopic-pregnancies-or-miscarriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">does not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Politico was also the outlet that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> the leaked <em>Dobbs<\/em> opinion in May 2022. After the leak, pro-abortion protesters launched an intimidation campaign against the justices who were expected to vote in the majority, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/20\/would-a-fanatic-have-tried-to-murder-brett-kavanaugh-if-merrick-garland-had-enforced-federal-law-against-intimidation-of-justices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including<\/a> Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who survived an attempt on his life. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood sponsors Politico&#8217;s Playbook newsletter this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2428773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ppad1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5157,36497,37662,32171,12387],"class_list":["post-2428772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-journalism","tag-media-critique","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-political-commentary","tag-politico"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ppad1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428776,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428772\/revisions\/2428776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}