{"id":169284,"date":"2017-07-29T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=169284"},"modified":"2017-07-29T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:36:56","slug":"planned-parenthood-dominates-abortion-market-arizona-losing-patients-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-dominates-abortion-market-arizona-losing-patients-overall\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood dominates abortion market in Arizona while losing patients overall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Arizona, Planned Parenthood<\/a> dominates the abortion market but has experienced a substantial decrease in patients. Between 2007 and 2016 patient visits dropped at Planned Parenthood by more than 46 percent. \u00a0This indicates that in Arizona, as across the nation, women are not choosing Planned Parenthood in the numbers they have in the past. Patient visits to Planned Parenthood of Arizona have plummeted from 61,722 in 2007<\/a> to just 33,181 in 2016, according <\/a>to a media statement from Jodi Liggett, vice president of public affairs.<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood Arizona 2015 annual report abortions<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite the falling numbers, an analysis <\/a>from a local media outlet determined that\u00a0about 17.27 percent of patients and 11 percent of all visits were for abortion services in Arizona. \u00a0But, Data compiled by the Arizona Department of Health Services<\/a> reveals that statewide, Planned Parenthood’s market share of abortion reached 53 percent in 2015. \u00a0According\u00a0to Planned Parenthood of Arizona’s 2015-2016 annual report<\/a>, they committed 6,667 out of the\u00a012,655\u00a0abortions performed in the state.<\/p>\n

This does not come as a surprise. Live Action News has reported multiple times that in state after state, Planned Parenthood is garnering a larger and larger share of the abortion market while increasing government funding.<\/p>\n

Nationally,<\/a>\u00a0Planned Parenthood\u2019s patients, as well as services in areas such as contraception, Pap tests, cancer screenings, and breast exams, have all decreased while government funding and abortions continue to rise. Opponents of forced tax payer funding of Planned Parenthood say that this is a good reason to shift the over $540 million tax dollars which Congress has handed out to Planned Parenthood annually to more worthy places such as\u00a0Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC).<\/p>\n

While Planned Parenthood operates just nine facilities across Arizona,\u00a0there are 23 Rural Health Clinics in the state, and 21 Federally Qualified Health Centers provide services at 149 sites,\u00a0offering more extensive health care services for women, according to the Rural Health Information Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, Planned Parenthood’s supporters argue that federal and state tax dollars should continue to flow to the abortion corporation because they are the\u00a0only ones that can provide “contraception services.”<\/p>\n

Not so fast.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0conducted by Planned Parenthood\u2019s former \u201cspecial affiliate,<\/a>\u201d the Guttmacher Institute, compared Federally Qualified Health Center sites (FQHC) to Planned Parenthood centers in areas that offered publicly funded contraception care and found that in 2015:<\/p>\n