{"id":275792,"date":"2022-09-13T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275792"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:12:21","slug":"planned-parenthood-womens-health-plummeting-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-womens-health-plummeting-services\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for ‘health care’: Planned Parenthood’s new report shows plummeting clients and non-abortion services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood’s latest\u00a02020-2021 report<\/a>\u00a0reveals that the corporation is far from the vital women’s health care organization it purports to be. As the organization’s actual health care services decline in numbers, abortions continue to climb. To date, Planned Parenthood has ended the lives of nearly 200 babies for every one adoption referral, and commits 43 abortions for every prenatal care service<\/a> it provides.<\/p>\n

In just the past decade (2010-2020), Planned Parenthood committed over 3.7 million abortions and, as a single organization, now commits over 41% of the nation’s abortions.<\/p>\n

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  • Planned Parenthood’s total clients dropped by 10% from 2019 to 2020.\u00a0At the same time, the corporation’s abortions climbed to record heights, increasing over 8%<\/a> from the previous year.<\/li>\n
  • Even if every PP client of reproductive age were female (which is not the case), the corporation would serve only an estimated maximum of 3% of those women.<\/li>\n
  • Planned Parenthood provides an estimated 1% or less of prenatal care services in the U.S.<\/li>\n
  • Planned Parenthood’s abortion to adoption referral ratio is 200 to 1.<\/li>\n
  • Planned Parenthood still provides just 1% or less of breast exams and Pap tests, and less than 2% of all cancer screenings in the U.S. (and finally admits it only refers for mammograms).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Planned Parenthood past decade: abortions, market share. Gov dollars. excess revenue (2000 to 2020-2021 AR)<\/p><\/div>\n

    Planned Parenthood clients are less than an estimated 3% of women of reproductive age<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Planned Parenthood has been propped up as a \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d organization, yet the percentage of women it serves is extremely<\/em> small. For the past several years,\u00a0(2015<\/a>,\u00a02016<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a02017<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a02018<\/a>, and again in 2019)<\/a>\u00a0Planned Parenthood has served 2.4 million clients per year.\u00a0But now, according to its most recent annual report for 2020-21<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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    • Planned Parenthood\u00a0clients have decreased<\/em> by 240,000 \u2014\u00a0dropping nearly 10% \u2014 to just 2.16 million clients.<\/li>\n
    • In the past decade, Planned Parenthood\u2019s clients have\u00a0declined<\/em> 30% from the 3 million it claimed to serve in 2010<\/a> and nearly 35% since\u00a01996-1997<\/a>\u00a0(when it says it served 3.3 million clients).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      In past reports, Planned Parenthood, which has a history of failing<\/a> to protect client privacy, has given a glimpse<\/a> of the number of its male versus female clients; however, Planned Parenthood’s latest report failed to separate clients by gender.<\/p>\n

      According to estimates<\/a>, in 2020 there were\u00a064,543,832 women of reproductive age (15-44) in the United States \u2014 and even if we assumed (incorrectly) that all<\/em> 2.16 million Planned Parenthood clients were female, this would mean that Planned Parenthood only served 3% of the female population of reproductive age of the U.S.<\/p>\n

      Planned Parenthood offers less than 1% of estimated national prenatal\u00a0care services<\/b><\/p>\n

      Prenatal care has been on the\u00a0decline<\/a>\u00a0at Planned Parenthood even as its abortion numbers continue to increase year after year. In fact, a\u00a02020 survey of all U.S. abortion businesses (not just Planned Parenthood)\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that just 18% offered\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0kind of prenatal and\/or obstetric care.<\/p>\n

      Planned Parenthood’s website<\/a> specifies that only some of its facilities offer any prenatal care. “There are lots of places to go for pregnancy care. Some clinics and Planned Parenthood health centers can give you low-cost or free prenatal care,” it states.\u00a0Undercover investigations\u00a0conducted<\/a>\u00a0by Live Action have revealed that prenatal care is not just difficult to find at Planned Parenthood facilities, but practically nonexistent. Even the workers themselves seemed baffled that anyone would call asking for prenatal services, which were\u00a0advertised at the time on Planned Parenthood\u2019s own website and later scrubbed<\/a>.<\/p>\n