Over 87 pro-life centers attacked after fall of Roe v. Wade
Executive director of Mountain Area Pregnancy Services Kristi Brown speaks out on the attack on her center last year and silence from local leaders.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), the 501(c)(3) research and education institute of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, released a fact sheet last month detailing Planned Parenthood's most recent annual financial report.
"I think the biggest takeaway is that Planned Parenthood continues to operate as an abortion giant and generate vast profits, including millions in taxpayer funding," Tessa Longbons, senior research associate at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, told Fox News Digital.
Planned Parenthood's 2021-2022 report noted $1.9 billion in income, and over $2.3 billion in net assets, which the CLI fact sheet observed was an increase from the previous annual report.
Private contributions made up $694.9 million of Planned Parenthood's revenue, which marked a 20% increase from the previous report, according to CLI.
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Planned Parenthood signage on August 19, 2022, in New York City. (Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
Taxpayer funding in the form of government grants, contracts and Medicaid reimbursements comprised about 3% of its revenue at $670.4 million, or almost $1.9 million per day, which CLI noted is an annual increase of $1 million from the year before.
The CLI fact sheet also notes that Planned Parenthood's total services are down 17.1% since 2010, though its taxpayer funding has increased by nearly 37.5% since then, according to CLI.
Planned Parenthood performed 374,155 abortions from 2020 to 2021, which marks a decrease of more than 9,300 from the previous year.
"So we saw, once again, they hit record levels of revenue and record levels of taxpayer funding from reimbursement and government grants," said Longbons said of the most recent report. "Very striking to see."
The report also noted that within the past year, 25 states now legally protect babies between conception and 12 weeks.
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The CLI fact sheet notes that Planned Parnethood's total services are down 17.1% since 2010, despite their revenue. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Twenty-seven states now require parental consent to receive an abortion and eight states have implemented parental notification laws, while 15 still have no requirements, the fact sheet pointed out.
Longbons drew a contrast between Planned Parenthood, which she said "makes more and more money, but sees fewer and fewer clients," and the growing network of pregnancy centers that provide options to women other than abortion.
She noted that such pregnancy centers outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics 14 to one, according to their fact sheet, and have overwhelming public support.
"If you look at just the pregnancy centers, there are nearly 3,000 nationwide, and they serve nearly 2 million clients a year at virtually no cost to clients," she said.
"[They] offer an enormous amount of resources and support to the communities they're in, and it's such a striking contrast to Planned Parenthood, which we've seen over the past couple of decades offer fewer and fewer services, serve fewer and fewer clients, perform more and more abortions and rake in record levels of income."
"It's an important contrast," she added.
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"So we saw once again, they hit record levels of revenue and record levels of taxpayer funding from reimbursement and government grants," said Longbons of Planned Parenthood. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
CLI also noted that Florida's heartbeat bill has allocated $25 million for pregnancy resource centers and that North Carolina has included $160 million for childcare, parental leave and community college assistance for parents in its 12-week bill.
Many other states have taken steps to enact similar legislation to assist mothers and their babies, CLI observed.
A Knights of Columbus–Marist poll earlier this year found that 69% of Americans support limiting abortion to the first three months of pregnancy at the most. The poll also found that 91% of Americans support pregnancy resource centers, some of which have been vandalized within the past year.
"I don't think that's surprising at all, since these pregnancy centers are doing an enormous amount to support their communities," Longbons said of the poll result. "They offer great value to their communities, and they're there to walk people through difficult situations and to be there alongside them."
A Knights of Columbus–Marist poll earlier this year found that 69% of Americans support limiting abortion to the first three months of pregnancy at the most. The poll also found that 91% of Americans support pregnancy resource centers, some of which have been vandalized within the past year. (Mountain Area Pregnancy Services)
Longbons said that abortion makes up 97% of Planned Parenthood's pregnancy resolution services, which she said indicates "they're not really offering other options besides abortion."
Longbons said the attacks against pregnancy centers across the country within the past year has been "disappointing," and that the Biden administration should do more to protect them.
More than 100 attacks on churches and pro-life clinics have occurred since the May 2022 leak of he U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a tracker by the conservative group CatholicVote.
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HerChoice, a pro-life pregnancy center in Bowling Green, Ohio, was attacked by "Jane’s Revenge" and hit with anti-Christian and pro-abortion graffiti. (Fox News Digital)
Sixty-four pro-life organizations were attacked between the initial leak and March 2023, according to a report from Family Research Council. There have been few arrests linked to such incidents, though Attorney General Merrick Garland has said the FBI is putting its "full resources" behind its investigation into the attacks.
"I certainly think that the administration should do more to make sure that pregnancy centers are not being attacked, and that when they are, justice is done, because these pregnancy centers exist to serve women and families," she said.
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"When they are under attack, that means that they can't do their jobs, and women and families aren't getting the services that they need."
