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Only 4% of their services are for abortion. They offer many many other women's health services.
From PP's annual budget report (% are rounded off)
About 45% of their revenue comes from federal government contracts and grants to serve the reproductive services to Medicaid women
About 30% of their revenue comes from private gifts contributions and bequests.
About 20% of their revenue comes from payment for private services and non-government contracted services Abortion is a part of this class of revenue.
About 5 % of their revenue comes from miscellaneous and other services.
You can see these 2022-2023 budget numbers and the services provided at
This is the PP web site. The numbers come from the detailed report they must submit to the federal government each year. I believe that PP is required by law to submit a much more detailed yearly report than any other non-profit agency or organization but I do not have a link to that statement.
They've tried the "abortion is a small percent of our services" defense before, and it holds as much water now as it did then. As long as you're lumping in every single pregnancy test, STI test, and you administer as a service, it's no wonder you can make abortions performed seem insignificant by comparison.
But let's try another analysis using the report you linked.
Let's look at the services they provided as a percentage of all such services performed in the US, as best we can estimate it.
The report you linked says PP administered about 197,000 pap tests. NIH estimates about 55 million pap tests are done each year in the US. CDC says about 14 million in 2018. So PP accounts for somewhere between about 0.35% and 1.4% of all pap smears administered per year.
Vasectomies. PP performed 4,083 in 2023-24. 2023 data is hard to come by, but NIH reports about 500,000 vasectomies were performed in 2015. In the wake of Roe v. Wade, insurance company data indicates that number has climbed quite a bit. So it's reasonable to conclude that PP is providing a very low percentage of overall vasectomies in the United States.
Miscarriage care. Yale estimates about a million miscarriages occur in the US per year. PP meanwhile cares for 3,604 of them in 2023, so about 0.36%.
LEEP Procedures. 2023 data is again difficult to come by, but estimates as of 2014 are that half a million of them are performed in the US each year. PP meanwhile provided 1,341 of that number in 2023, so about 0.27%.
Now, abortion.
Guttmacher reports that in 2023 there were a total of 1,026,700 abortions. Planned Parenthood's 2023 numbers account for 392,715 of that, so PP performed about 38% of the country's abortions in 2023.
So they provide, as best we can estimate...
- 1% of the country's vasectomies...
- 0.4% of the country's miscarriage care...
- 0.3% of the country's LEEP procedures...
- ...and 38% of the country's abortions, and your argument is that abortion is not a major component of the organization?
I would be interested to see more detailed financial data to break down revenue by service. That is, to see what services are their real money-maker. I'd bet good money that most of it comes from abortions.