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New report details the expansion of Planned Parenthood’s deadly reach

While the number of Planned Parenthood facilities has decreased, the number of abortions—402,230 in 2024—has increased.

People pass a Planned Parenthood clinic March 17, 2017 in New York City. (CNS photo/Justin Lane, EPA)

In the book of Proverbs, we read that seven actions are an “abomination” to God: “haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that are quick to run to evil, the false witness who utters lies, and the one who sows discord among kindred.”

Anyone who knows the wickedness perpetrated by Planned Parenthood knows that it exhibits each of these characteristics seen as abominations to our Lord.

Its haughty eyes look with disdain upon anyone who dares speak the truth about its abortion and birth control business, its sex-ed programs, or its gender hormone drug disbursement.

Its lying tongue and false witness tell the world that a preborn baby is a “clump of cells” and that abortion is “healthcare.”

Its hands shed innocent blood, as its latest annual report boasted that it killed 402,230 preborn babies during the last fiscal year. This does not even take into account the number of women who endured botched abortions at its facilities or the number of women injured in abortion pill abortions at home.

Planned Parenthood’s heart plots wicked schemes, and its feet are quick to run to evil, as it sexualizes children in our schools and attempts to normalize abortion to young people.

And, yes, it sows discord throughout our country through the words and actions of its staff. One need only read the language of its reports for a glimpse at this. For example:

The staff at Planned Parenthood health centers continue to deliver care in spite of countless barriers, supporting patients and fueling their hopes for their lives and futures. Health center staff are innovating to try to reach more patients, helping patients travel to see them, and answering their questions. They’re providing birth control, STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings, and, where legal, abortion care.

Referring to abortion restrictions as barriers to “care” puts people on the defensive, making them feel attacked. That way, they do not think about the tiny preborn baby whose arms and legs are ripped from his torso during an abortion. They do not think about the child whose lifeless body is delivered into a toilet after his mother takes an abortion pill. They only think about the affront to “bodily autonomy” that the world is thrusting on them.

And in so doing, Planned Parenthood makes itself out to be a hero. But as we see time and time again, Planned Parenthood is no hero.

STOPP’s latest report illustrates this.

2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report

American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood International (STOPP), the country’s preeminent Planned Parenthood watchdog, exists to uncover the deceit promulgated by this organization. And STOPP’s recently released report is just one more tool that details the organization’s abominations.

STOPP’s 2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report reveals the disturbing trend that Planned Parenthood is attempting to get more abortion into more hands at all costs, as we see how its reach has begun to extend beyond its brick-and-mortar facilities and into the homes of scared young women and even sex traffickers via virtual health centers, apps, and telehealth visits.

The facilities report states that, since 2021, “66 facilities closed permanently, 10 temporarily closed, and 20 new locations have opened, bringing the new total of open brick-and-mortar facilities to 509.”

Yet it goes on to explain that it committed a record high number of abortions—402,230. So, while the number of facilities has decreased, the number of abortions has increased.

Planned Parenthood doesn’t need as many brick-and-mortar facilities to kill babies when it can convince women to do this on their own via the abortion pill or when it can help transport abortion-minded mothers from states with stricter abortion laws to states with few to no restrictions on abortion.

By skirting the law and devising its own brand of evil, Planned Parenthood can continue to partake in the practice it is known for, and that earns it the most money—the killing of innocent preborn babies.

This is truly evil at work. Yet it proves that Planned Parenthood is run by good salespeople. They sell fear. They sell apathy. They sell lies disguised as goods. They sell death packaged in an innocuous wrapper so that most people don’t know what they’re getting until it’s too late. And ignorant people are buying it.

Evil is all too prevalent in the world, which is why organizations like ALL and STOPP work daily to combat it. Through its work and various reports, STOPP highlights these evils and brings them to the forefront so that our communities and our country will finally see the truth about Planned Parenthood.

Fighting the abortion giant

Katie Brown Xavios, national director of American Life League, stated the importance of this facilities report, saying, “Pro-lifers can benefit from knowing about this report because it shows us exactly what Planned Parenthood’s current strategy is and how we can transition our efforts to battle their online abortion push. Pro-lifers can use this report as a roadmap when looking for the best places to put their efforts.”

And STOPP’s efforts landed on the desk of Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona. He took notice of STOPP’s work and its call to defund Planned Parenthood, and now he and other members of Congress are working with DOGE to investigate and defund this nefarious organization.

As outlined in Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 annual report, it received nearly $800 million of our tax dollars during that fiscal year. It is unacceptable and unconscionable for our nation’s taxpayers to fund an organization hell-bent on destroying families, maiming children, and killing babies.

Thus, it is incumbent on each of us to take action. Read STOPP’s report and share it with friends. Write to your congressmen and senators and encourage them to investigate and defund Planned Parenthood. Post the truth about Planned Parenthood on social media. Have frank discussions with your family members, especially your teens.

Our country needs to wake up and see the beauty of the preborn child, the sanctity of marriage and family, and the horrors that happen behind the doors of every Planned Parenthood. Only when the truth is widely shared and understood will lives be saved and Planned Parenthood’s abominations finally be destroyed.


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About Susan Ciancio 77 Articles
Susan Ciancio is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has worked as a writer and editor for nearly 19 years; 13 of those years have been in the pro-life sector. Currently, she is the editor of American Life League’s Celebrate Life Magazine—the nation’s premier Catholic pro-life magazine. She is also the executive editor of ALL’s Culture of Life Studies Program—a pre-K-12 Catholic pro-life education organization.

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