70% of Abortion Businesses Operating in 1991 Have Closed, Over 1,500 Shut Down

Operation Rescue’s 2025 survey of every abortion clinic in America revealed 54 clinics that have closed or halted abortions — the highest number of closures since 2022, when Operation Rescue verified 88 closures following the fall of Roe.

Of those 54 closures, 36 were Planned Parenthood abortion facilities. However, Planned Parenthood also closed an additional 28 referral locations since OR’s last survey, which amounts to a record total of 64 Planned Parenthood closures in one year.

“It’s been a gloriously bad year for Planned Parenthood,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, “which means a banner year for the preborn. When abortion clinics close, babies are saved.”

Of all the closures nationwide, Americans witnessed the shuttering of three very significant and symbolic clinics this year:

• Boulder Abortion Clinic in Colorado closed just months after infamous late-term abortionist Warren Hern announced his retirement. Hern founded the clinic in 1975 and has likely committed thousands of abortions since then, proudly specializing in gruesome, full-term killings. When he retired, Hern claimed his horrific abortion business would go on, but clearly, he was unable to find a replacement.
• Planned Parenthood was finally forced to shut down its Prevention Park location in Houston, Texas. This flagship clinic was built to be one of the largest abortion clinics in America, costing Planned Parenthood more than 16 million dollars when it opened in 2010. It is now shuttered forever.
• The infamous Margaret Sanger building, located at 26 Bleecker Street in New York – Planned Parenthood’s most symbolic flagship – was also shuttered in the midst of financial missteps and past accusations from employees regarding systemic racism within the abortion giant. This stronghold, too, has closed for good.
• In addition, the infamous late-term Washington Surgi-Clinic in D.C. was also temporarily shuttered this year amid a lapsed license. Abortionist Cesare Santangelo, who is suspected of killing live babies after birth, also reportedly has severe health problems that may have contributed to the closure.

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The two Planned Parenthood closures are especially meaningful to Operation Rescue. Both of the Planned Parenthood regions in Texas and New York were involved in suing Operation Rescue’s President, Troy Newman, after he and others released the groundbreaking 2015 undercover videos linking Planned Parenthood to the illegal sale of babies’ body parts.

Though Newman and others ended up with an $18 million judgment against them from a pro-abortion California judge, Newman says he would do it all again. As a direct result of those undercover videos, the Texas Planned Parenthood regions lost Medicaid funding, and Planned Parenthood’s CEO at the time, Cecile Richards, soon resigned. Planned Parenthood has never been able to replace Richards’ influence and political prowess – and now even their own flagship clinic in New York is completely gone.

According to Operation Rescue’s Annual Survey, 2025 marks the fourth consecutive year that abortion clinic numbers have seen a decline. And, in fact, abortion clinics have seen a whopping 70% decrease since 1991, when clinics numbered 2,176 across the nation. Today, that count is just over 650.

LifeNews Note: This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.