{"id":216627,"date":"2020-01-09T17:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=216627"},"modified":"2020-01-09T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:48:32","slug":"planned-parenthood-anything-womens-health-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-anything-womens-health-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood’s plummeting health care services prove it’s not focused on women’s health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood masquerades<\/a> as a “health care organization<\/a>” but data released<\/a> from the organization’s 2018-2019 annual report<\/a>\u00a0calls this into question. The report makes clear that Planned Parenthood’s number one focus is abortion, and shows that it has increasingly garnered a massive amount of the total number of abortions committed in the U.S. (market share), committing the largest number of abortions on record in a single year in 2018.\u00a0What the data also reveals is that Planned Parenthood serves only a small percentage of female clients in the U.S., and still performs less than one percent<\/em> of the nation’s Pap tests and\u00a0two percent<\/a><\/em>\u00a0of the nation\u2019s breast cancer screenings (not mammograms).<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood serves an estimated three percent<\/em> of women of reproductive age:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For years, Planned Parenthood has been propped up as a “women’s health” organization, yet it serves a very small percentage of female clients annually. Planned Parenthood reports show 2.4 million clients annually in\u00a02015<\/a>,\u00a02016<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a02017<\/a>\u00a0and again in\u00a02018<\/a>, despite declining nearly 23 percent (22.58%) from the 3.1 million it served in\u00a02006<\/a>, and 20 percent from the three million clients it claimed to serve just ten years ago (2008<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In contrast, between 2015 and 2018, federally qualified health centers (FQHC) \u2013 as identified by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration \u2013\u00a0serve<\/a>\u00a0tens of millions of women annually and have increased their patient load by nearly 17 percent (16.81%).<\/p>\n