Haley Strack – National Review Apr 17, 2024

Abortions performed by Planned Parenthood are the fourth-leading cause of death in America, the organization’s 2022-23 annual report revealed this week.

Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions in 2022-23, the organization boasted in its report, and helped get 33,000 women the transportation, travel support, and financial assistance needed to get an abortion. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted factored child deaths caused by abortion into their “Leading Causes of Death” data, that would make Planned Parenthood-performed abortions the fourth leading cause of death, behind heart disease (695,547), cancer (605,213), and Covid-19 (416,893).

“Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, abortion and more abortion,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s president Marjorie Dannenfelser said. “Their annual report shocks the conscience, showing that they ended nearly 393,000 American lives in a single year.”

“Once again, pregnant women who walk into Planned Parenthood are sold an abortion 97% of the time, rather than helped to keep their child or make an adoption plan. Meanwhile they saw 80,000 fewer patients, provided 60,000 fewer pap tests and breast exams, and even gave out less contraception,” Dannenfelser continued. “As a reward, Democrats in Washington and in the states sent them almost $700 million from the taxpayers – one third of their revenue – to end the fiscal year with $2.5 billion in net assets.”

National Review contributor and scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Michael J. New, said that Planned Parenthood’s latest numbers support the organization’s broader goal to offer less-diversified health services.

“The 2022-2023 report shows that preventive-care visits fell by 31.0 percent, pap tests fell by 13.5 percent, cancer screenings fell by 1.4 percent, and adoption referrals fell by 4.5 percent. Interestingly, for every adoption referral in 2023, Planned Parenthood performed over 228 abortions,” he said. “All of this is consistent with Planned Parenthood’s long-term trend of performing more abortions and providing fewer health services. In fact, in the past ten years, the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by 20 percent. Meanwhile, cancer screenings fell by more than 58 percent, and prenatal services declined by more than 67 percent. Although Planned Parenthood cut back on several health services in 2022, it continues to receive increases in government funding.”

More than 60 percent of women who had abortions report having experienced pressure to receive an abortion, Charlotte Lozier found in a 2023 study.

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