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The “Big Beautiful Bill” provided a massive victory to the pro-life movement by preventing Medicaid dollars from going to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. As a consequence of the funding cuts, 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. Neighboring states are anticipating an influx of Wisconsin women, and the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois acknowledged that “this is not sustainable.” Predictably, abortion-rights advocates and sympathetic media outlets claim that the development in Wisconsin is yet another attack on “reproductive rights” while expressing no concern for the innocent life inside the womb. Actually, though, this episode exposes the abortion lobby’s favorite lies about Planned Parenthood’s supposed financial self-sufficiency and purportedly long list of reproductive 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. 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.
Indeed, 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.
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. If the Wisconsin clinics shutter entirely, we’ll know that abortions were a large chunk of their operations, not a tiny percentage.
Meanwhile, National Review recently reported that Planned Parenthood’s free online sex-education courses for students explicitly instruct children in eighth grade and above to be pro-abortion activists. In fact, the lessons tell students to donate to pro-abortion initiatives and providers such as Planned Parenthood. The organization further attempts to suppress its competition, warning students to “avoid crisis pregnancy centers” because they supposedly “use misinformation to discourage pregnant people from seeking abortion care.”
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.