{"id":324532,"date":"2025-01-14T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324532"},"modified":"2025-03-12T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:21:09","slug":"planned-parenthood-failed-follow-law-federal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-failed-follow-law-federal-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood has failed to follow the law, yet it gets hundreds of millions in federal funds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood, which continues to receive the bulk of its taxpayer dollars through Medicaid reimbursements and the Title X Family Planning Program, has repeatedly failed to abide by mandatory reporting laws regarding child sexual abuse. Yet, both Medicaid and Title X require participants to comply with state and federal laws regarding the reporting of abuse.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood’s primary funding sources: Medicaid and Title X<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When legislation was proposed in 2015<\/a> to defund Planned Parenthood, the Congressional Budget Office<\/a> (CBO) found that Planned Parenthood received<\/a> approximately $450 million annually in just\u00a0federal<\/u><\/b>\u00a0funds.<\/p>\n

CBO broke the funding down to two main sources: Medicaid and Title X. CBO found:<\/p>\n

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  • $390 million is provided through the Medicaid program and less than $1 million is provided through the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Medicare program combined.<\/li>\n
  • Approximately $60 million is provided through the National Family Planning Program, which operates under Title X of the Public Health Service Act (commonly referred to as Title X).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    2013 – 2015:<\/strong> Live Action News previously<\/a> documented a 2018 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report<\/a> detailing direct federal funding from government agencies to Planned Parenthood between years 2013-2015. The pro-life Family Research Council analyzed<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0GAO report<\/a> and concluded that federal government agency dollars (including Title X) to Planned Parenthood averaged out to approximately $500 million each year, ($288 million in federal grants, contracts, and reimbursements and $1.2 billion in Medicaid.)<\/p>\n

    2016-2018:<\/strong> GAO reports published in the past few years have revealed that from 2016-2018<\/a>, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $1.6 billion in federal taxpayer dollars from Health and Human Services (HHS), averaging $533 million per year ($304 million through grants or cooperative agreements and $1.3 billion from Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP).<\/p>\n

    2019-2021:<\/strong> GAO reports from 2019-2021<\/a> showed that PPFA received $1.78 billion in federal taxpayer funding in just those three years, an average of $592 million federal dollars passed to Planned Parenthood \u2014 while Planned Parenthood abortions totaled 1.1 million within those same three years.<\/p>\n

    According to the report, between 2021 ($5.71 million) and 2022 ($27.06 million), the Biden Administration\u2019s HHS obligations to Planned Parenthood increased nearly 374%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Over $1.53 billion in reimbursements from Medicare ($3.28M), Medicaid ($1535.27M) as well as CHIP ($50K) went to Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood received nearly $149 million in grants and cooperative agreements, according to the GAO report.<\/p>\n

    2024:<\/strong> Members of Congress recently requested<\/a>\u00a0for the GAO to provide them with updated numbers for the years 2022-2024.<\/p>\n