Calls to defund Planned Parenthood surged with the release of its annual report showing that the number of abortions performed hit an all-time high — and federal funding continued to increase — even as cancer screenings and other services plummeted.
The Planned Parenthood 2024-25 Annual Report found that the organization was responsible for a record 434,450 abortions in 2023-24, an increase of 8% from the previous year and 34% since 2014.
The data released this week represents the second year in a row that Planned Parenthood has set an in-house abortion record, as shown in a breakdown by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, which analyzes the report’s data each year.
At the same time, cancer screenings and prevention services fell by 43%, prenatal services dropped by 56%, and contraception services decreased by 23%, even though Planned Parenthood touts itself as a provider of a wide array of reproductive and sexual health services.
“Abortion is the clear focus at Planned Parenthood,” Tessa Cox, senior research associate at the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, said Thursday in a statement.
Taxpayer funding increased by 50%, but that figure represents a one-year lag from the health-services data and covers fiscal years ending in 2024, before Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding was stripped in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025.
The latest figures appear to defy the left’s narrative that obtaining abortions has become more difficult since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, a ruling that prompted Republican-led states to restrict access to elective pregnancy termination.
Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, said the number of abortions “belies Planned Parenthood’s narrative that abortions are hard to access since the Dobbs decision.”
“Americans shouldn’t be forced to fund Planned Parenthood with their taxpayer dollars,” she said Thursday in a statement. “Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and a leading provider of cross sex hormones for children. Our government should not be in the business of funding this evil, predatory industry.”
In 2023-24, @PPFA performed more abortions than:
Pap tests
Miscarriage care
Preventive and primary care visits
Prenatal services
HPV vaccines
Examinations/treatments of abnormal cervical cells
Diagnostic procedures for cancer prevention
…COMBINED#plannedparenthood #abortion…
— Charlotte Lozier Institute (@LozierInstitute) April 8, 2026
In its annual report, Planned Parenthood said it remains “the most trusted source for honest, expert information on sexual and reproductive health care,” despite the defunding efforts.
“The past few years have been shaped by direct attacks on sexual and reproductive health that have made it harder for people to get the care they need,” the report states. “Through it all, care continues. Every day, across the country, hundreds of Planned Parenthood health centers open their doors to patients, providing care.”
Increasingly, however, Planned Parenthood doesn’t have doors. The nation’s largest abortion provider has been shuttering clinics for years as it moves to the telehealth model with its “virtual health centers” and Planned Parenthood Direct, an online platform offering services including abortion pills.
The latest report offered no breakdown on how many of the 434,450 abortions in 2023-24 were done surgically and how many with the abortion-pill protocol. The Washington Times has reached out to Planned Parenthood for comment.
Planned Parenthood for America has been in decline for years, losing patients at its 49 affiliates and closing clinics in sharp contrast to its political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, a left-wing powerhouse.
Since 2014, Planned Parenthood affiliates have seen their patient numbers decline by 16%, although the latest report showed a small increase of 0.5%.
Planned Parenthood said it shuttered nearly 50 clinics in 2025, citing the loss of Medicaid reimbursements and family-planning funding through Title X, but it’s also true the organization has faced growing competition from online businesses.
Organizations like Aid Access that prescribe abortion pills via telehealth and deliver them by mail have proliferated since the Food and Drug Administration eliminated the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone in 2021.
The closures come even though Planned Parenthood prevailed last week against the Trump administration after the Department of Health and Human Services agreed to extend to Title X funding to affiliates for a fifth and final year rather than fight the matter in court.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said the report illustrates why Republicans “must finish what they started.”
“The ’cuts’ aren’t working, and Planned Parenthood just admitted they killed an all-time high number of babies,” she posted Thursday on X.
Despite its record pace on abortions, Planned Parenthood said that pregnancy terminations represent only 4% of its medical services, the same percentage as last year.
Before that, Planned Parenthood reported for years that abortions constituted just 3% of its services, a figure long disputed by pro-life advocates.
“If a woman visits Planned Parenthood for an abortion, they will count each service she receives in the appointment (example, a pregnancy test, STD test, and birth control) individually, even though the reason for the visit is to get an abortion,” Ms. Cox said in an email.
After a 25-year decline, U.S. abortions began ticking upward in 2017, driven in large part by the growing availability of the two-pill abortion protocol of mifepristone and misoprostol.
“An estimated 1,126,000 abortions were provided by US clinicians in 2025, largely unchanged from 2024, when there were 1,124,000 clinician-provided abortions,” the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research and policy organization, said in its March report.
Planned Parenthood has become virtually synonymous with abortion, and for good reason, said the institute.
The report showed that women seeking pregnancy-related help at Planned Parenthood received an abortion in 97% of cases, instead of prenatal care, miscarriage treatment, or adoption assistance.
“Prenatal services, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals accounted for only 1.7% (7,685), 0.6% (2,852), and 0.7% (3,038) of these services, respectively,” the institute said.
Pro-life groups have urged pregnant women to seek care from the nation’s nearly 1,500 federally qualified health centers, which far outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics and do not provide abortions.
“Over the past decade, abortions, government funding, and total revenue soared, even as the number of clients served has declined and total services have stagnated,” Ms. Cox said. “Women deserve better alternatives.”
