On Monday, Planned Parenthood released its 2024 annual report. These annual reports are often helpful to pro-lifers.

However, this year, Planned Parenthood’s annual report takes on additional significance, as pro-lifers are currently making a strong push to defund Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process. Fortunately, this report should bolster pro-life efforts. That is because, once again, it provides extremely solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion at the expense of health care.

Overall, this new report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 402,230 abortions in 2023. This marks the first time that Planned Parenthood has reported performing over 400,000 abortions in a given year — and represents an all-time high number for the organization. Overall, Planned Parenthood performs over 39 percent of the abortions that take place in the United States.

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The report also indicates that Planned Parenthood continues to cut back on various health services. Between 2023 and 2024, primary care visits fell by 13.7 percent, pap tests fell by 12.3 percent, cancer screenings fell by 8.1 percent, and UTI treatments fell by 45.0 percent. Though Planned Parenthood did report an increase in adoption referrals in 2024, it should be noted that for every adoption referral that took place in 2023, Planned Parenthood still performed over 187 abortions.

All of this is consistent with Planned Parenthood’s long-term trend of performing more abortions and providing fewer health services. In fact, during the past ten years, the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by over 22 percent. Meanwhile, cancer screenings fell by more than 54 percent and prenatal services declined by more than 62 percent during the same time period.

Although Planned Parenthood cut back on several health services in 2023, it continues to receive increases in government funding. The report indicates that, in fiscal 2023, it received $792.2 million in government grants and reimbursements. This is a whopping 13.3 percent increase from 2022. This is further evidence that the Biden administration prioritized funding for Planned Parenthood.

With Republicans controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, pro-lifers have a unique opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood’s annual report indicates it receives 39 percent of its revenue from the government. Thus, a federal funding cutoff would do substantial harm to the abortion giant. House Republicans unveiled legislation on Sunday that would defund Planned Parenthood. Let’s hope this report gives Congressional Republicans the ammunition they need to continue their efforts and finally end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

LifeNews Note: Michael J. New is an assistant professor at the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America and is an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Follow him on Twitter @Michael_J_New

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