Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion provider in the nation, wants Congress, its donors, and its allies in the corporate media to believe that its existence is necessary to deliver health care to women in need. A new analysis from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, however, found that community health-care centers with resources devoted to women’s health instead of prioritizing abortion outnumber Planned Parenthood locations 15 to one.
The researchers found that 5,500 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across the U.S. provide a “full range of care” including obstetrics and gynecology services to women regardless of their incomes. An additional 3,300 rural health clinics offer similar services to those CLI deemed ‘particularly vulnerable to health care shortages.”
Neither of those stats includes the more than 2,600 pro-life pregnancy centers across the country that also provide cheap or free prenatal care, screenings, pregnancy tests, and ultrasounds, parenting education programs, and physical resources like diapers, wipes, formula, and clothing to parents in need.
On the contrary, Planned Parenthood, which has a long history of allegedly flouting federal law and wasting tax dollars, dispensing castrating drugs to confused minors, reportedly trafficking baby body parts, likely enabling abusers, allegedly performing unlicensed procedures, violating health and safety standards, opposing free speech, and conducting procedures that have resulted in mothers’ deaths, only has 579 “in-person and virtual” locations. Some of those facilities are on the brink of closure after exposures of their “botched care,” outdated equipment, and poor training.
Planned Parenthood is not only outnumbered by FQHCs, RHCs, and pregnancy centers, which receive far less federal funding than it does annually, but also outperformed.
In addition to Planned Parenthood facilities’ less-than-ideal conditions, the abortion giant’s claim to offer “health care” to women falls flat in the face of data showing the abortion giant’s cancer screenings and other preventative procedure services dropped by 70 percent between 2010 and 2023.
You wouldn’t know it from the abortion giant’s tagline, “Care. No matter what,” but Planned Parenthood’s priority has always been terminating pregnancies, not getting women medical care they need. Between 2021 and 2022 alone, abortions, not prenatal oversight or adoptions, were responsible for approximately 97 percent of Planned Parenthood’s “pregnancy resolution services.” Its commitment to abortion above all earned it a spot as the culprit of the leading causes of death in the United States between 2022 and 2023.
“With research showing that nearly 70% of women who had abortions described them as unwanted or inconsistent with their preferences and values, we know that many women are looking for better options,” said CLI senior research associate Tessa Cox, who conducted the new analysis, in a statement. “Community health centers give those options, providing care in underserved communities and filling critical health care gaps. Women deserve comprehensive care from providers who offer real health care, not abortion.”
Republicans — who control the House, Senate, and White House — could cut off Planned Parenthood as a multi-million-dollar benefactor of Americans’ tax dollars via reconciliation. Doing so would free up approximately $699.3 million, which the abortion giant received from the government between 2022 and 2023, for more deserving entities.
Reporting from NotUs, however, suggested Republican Reps. Mike Lawler, Jen Kiggans, and Brian Fitzpatrick claimed to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who recently committed to “redirect funds away from big abortion,” that they do not support defunding Planned Parenthood.
“This report makes one thing abundantly clear: Women aren’t receiving comprehensive medical care at Planned Parenthood, despite what the abortion lobby claims, because their business is abortion,” Karen Czarnecki, executive director of CLI, said in a statement. “Women, especially ones in underserved areas, deserve access to quality health care. Planned Parenthood isn’t meeting the needs of these women, especially considering recent reports of botched services.”
