We’re running a separate story on yesterday’s “International Safe Abortion Day” (obviously not “safe” for the unborn child) which coincidentally coincided with the 25th anniversary of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the “abortion pill.” In one fell swoop, approval liberated the Abortion Industry to expand its killing campaign to the point where a quarter century later well over 60% of the abortion performed in the U.S. are now “medical abortions.”
The editors of National Review Online wrote a very useful story today headlined “Wisconsin Move Exposes Planned Parenthood Lies”.
The biggest lie was revealed when “Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced that, starting October 1, it is no longer scheduling patients for abortions, supposedly because this will allow its clinics to continue seeing Medicaid patients.”
Right. Of course. Why wouldn’t this noble organization sacrificially serve the poor, now that President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” cut off federal funding for a year beginning October 1 to Big Abortion if they received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023?
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The editors spot the weakness—actually a two-sided chronic lie—that demonstrated the pivotal role abortion plays in undergirded the largest abortion “provider” in the US and its ever diminishing non-abortion services.
Pro-abortion activists dubiously claim that abortions constitute only a small percentage of Planned Parenthood’s services, but that figure is artificially diluted because Planned Parenthood deliberately inflates the number of “services” provided. For example, if a woman underwent an abortion at Planned Parenthood and received a free condom upon leaving, the procedure might be counted as only 50 percent of the services provided.
Note that some regional Planned Parenthood affiliates
explicitly disclose on their websites that an in-clinic abortion appointment consists of several steps, such as an ultrasound and birth-control consultation, which thereby increases the number of services received during a single visit for an abortion procedure.
But doesn’t Planned Parenthood provide other life-affirming services? Ah, no.
Planned Parenthood’s own records show that its purported pregnancy care is disproportionately interventions to end pregnancy. In its annual report from 2023-2024, Planned Parenthood discloses that it performed 402,230 abortions — and during that time, it recorded just 2,148 adoption referrals, 7,008 instances of “prenatal services,” and 3,598 “miscarriage care” services. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in particular reportedly performed 3,727 abortions in the state from October 2023 to the end of September 2024.
In a word
By stopping its abortion services in response to the loss of Medicaid funds, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin implicitly concedes what the pro-life movement has long insisted: Government money has supported abortion procedures.
The editorial ends firmly on the side of life and truth:
Before the Big Beautiful Bill, Planned Parenthood received nearly $800 million in taxpayer dollars each year. Ultimately, Planned Parenthood is an abortion mill and ideological operation masquerading as a health-care provider, and it depends on constant subsidy from those who recognize that its industry is nothing short of wicked.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
