{"id":166738,"date":"2017-05-30T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166738"},"modified":"2017-05-31T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T23:08:28","slug":"prenatal-care-cancer-screenings-decrease-planned-parenthood-loses-100000-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/prenatal-care-cancer-screenings-decrease-planned-parenthood-loses-100000-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"As prenatal care and cancer screenings decrease, Planned Parenthood loses 100,000 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood<\/a> has released its\u00a02015-2016 annual report<\/a> nearly five months later than usual. Both abortion and taxpayer dollars to the abortion corporation<\/a>\u00a0have increased yet again. The report, released over the long Memorial Day weekend, reveals\u00a0that contraception, prenatal care, breast exams, and pregnancy tests have decreased. Planned Parenthood has lost roughly 100,000 clients \u2013\u00a0dropping from 2.5 million in FY2014-2015 to 2.4 million in FY2015-2016.<\/p>\n

While Planned Parenthood’s spokespersons attempt to convince Congress and the American public that defunding the\u00a0corporation would be harmful to its\u00a0clients, the\u00a02015-2016 report<\/a> shows that clientele at the abortion business continues to dwindle.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02011, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards\u00a0boasted<\/a>\u00a0that the organization\u00a0served three million patients<\/a>. By\u00a02015<\/a>, those numbers had dropped by more than\u00a0600,000\u00a0to 2.4 million. From the 2014-2015 report to the 2015-2016 report, Planned Parenthood self-reported a drop of approximately 100,000 patients. Planned Parenthood also now admits that a surprising 11% of its clients are men.<\/p>\n

Abortions, Taxpayer Funding, and Private Donations Increase<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the decreases, Planned Parenthood\u00a0has increased its taxpayer\u00a0funding as well as its market\u00a0share of U.S. abortions<\/p>\n

In FY\u00a02014-2015<\/a>, Planned Parenthood performed 323,999 abortions, accounting for 34.9 percent of the overall abortion\u00a0market share in the United States. (This data is based on the latest abortion numbers published by Guttmacher.)\u00a0By FY\u00a02015-2016<\/a>, Planned Parenthood’s abortions\u00a0rose to 328,348<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taxpayer\u00a0funding of Planned Parenthood increased by nearly one million dollars in 2015-2016<\/a>, from\u00a0$553.7 million in 2014-2015\u00a0to $554.6 million.\u00a0Since\u00a02004<\/a>, when Planned Parenthood received $272.7 million in taxpayer dollars, forced taxpayer funding\u00a0of the abortion corporation has increased over 103 percent.<\/p>\n

While politicians continue to send Planned Parenthood\u00a0more than half a billion dollars each year, the\u00a0organization’s private donations increased by 26 percent, swelling by an additional $92 million in 2015-2016. (The total private donations in 2015-2016 were $445.8 million.)\u00a0The cash flow enabled Planned Parenthood to end the year with an\u00a0excess of revenue over expenses in the amount of $77.5 million. This excess was an increase of nearly 32 percent over the $58.8 million in excess Planned Parenthood reported in 2014-2015.<\/p>\n

STI Testing and Treatment, Pap Tests, and Adoption Referrals a Long-Term Decrease<\/strong><\/p>\n

STI testing and treatment, which make up the bulk of Planned Parenthood’s services and include HPV and HIV tests, increased slightly from 2014-2015 (4,218,149). However,\u00a02015-2016 numbers<\/a>\u00a0(4,266,689) still show that STI testing has dropped nearly five percent since\u00a02011<\/a>, when Planned Parenthood provided\u00a04,475,013 tests and treatments.<\/p>\n

Pap tests showed an increase from 271,539 in 2014-2015 to 293,799 in\u00a02015-2016<\/a>.\u00a0However, the overall trend still shows that the service declined 75 percent from 2004 numbers, when Planned Parenthood recorded 1,183,692 Pap tests (see updated numbers in the\u00a02005 annual report<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Adoption referrals to other agencies were also up slightly from 2014-2015 numbers (2,024 to 2,889). However, the current numbers remain a shocking\u00a041 percent lower than\u00a02007<\/a>\u00a0numbers (4,912).<\/em><\/p>\n

It remains a mystery why Planned Parenthood even counts adoption referrals as an actual service<\/em> in its\u00a0reports. Live Action News has\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that adoption did not show up in Planned Parenthood\u2019s services totals until 2005 (see updated numbers in the\u00a02006 annual report<\/a>). Prior to that year, those numbers were categorized<\/a>\u00a0as \u201creferred out\u201d and were not included in the overall services totals performed by Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

Contraception, Pregnancy\u00a0Tests, Cancer Screenings, and Breast Exams All Drop at Planned Parenthood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contraception services at Planned Parenthood decreased 4.6 percent<\/a> in 2015-2016.\u00a0The new annual report<\/a> reveals that contraception services at Planned Parenthood are at their lowest in years, decreasing nearly\u00a030\u00a0percent since 2009, according to that year’s Annual Affiliate Service Census Report<\/a> (4,009,549).<\/p>\n

In 2015<\/a>, Planned Parenthood performed nearly 8 percent fewer pregnancy tests (1,079,836 ) than they did in 2014 (1,172,989 ).<\/p>\n

Overall, cancer screenings at the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider dropped another 2.4 percent in 2015.\u00a0As Live Action News previously documented<\/a>, in 2004, Planned Parenthood performed a combination of 2,157,849 cancer screening services (see updated\u00a02005 annual report<\/a>),\u00a0which included Pap tests, breast exams, colposcopy procedures<\/a>, LEEP procedures<\/a>, and cryotherapy procedures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By\u00a02014-2015<\/a>, Planned Parenthood’s overall cancer screenings had decreased to just 682,208.<\/p>\n

But, by 2015-2016<\/a>, despite adding a category called “<\/em>other diagnostic” <\/em>(which includes biopsies, samplings, ablations, and other gynecological surgeries), cancer screenings overall dropped to only 665,234.<\/p>\n

This shows a decrease of 2.4 percent from the 2014 totals and a 69-percent decrease from 2004.<\/p>\n

Despite false claims by Planned Parenthood as well as its\u00a0political supporters that Planned Parenthood performs<\/a>\u00a0mammograms, mammograms performed at the abortion corporation remained steady at zero. Breast exams declined nearly 12 percent in 2015, from 363,803 in 2014-2015 to 321,700 in the new report.\u00a0In addition,\u00a0between 2004<\/a> and 2015-2016<\/a>, breast exams declined by more than 65 percent (925,763 to 321,700).<\/p>\n

Prenatal Services Cut in Half by Planned Parenthood<\/strong><\/p>\n

The abortion giant has insisted that prenatal care is one of its core services that women will lose if taxpayer funding is cut off.\u00a0But an investigation<\/a> conducted by Live Action earlier this year proved that those services are virtually nonexistent at the abortion chain.<\/p>\n