Planned Parenthood is a government-funded abortion mill. It doesn’t perform many crucial services for female reproductive health, like mammograms, yet it has added transgenderism services to its distasteful list of things it does provide.

Shockingly, The New York Times recently published an article criticizing Planned Parenthood. The author, Katie Benner, does a deep dive into the plight of this organization and why it’s in dire straits.

The overarching theme is that Planned Parenthood is divided into affiliates, and those affiliates are subject to individual state laws on abortion. Many of the clinics are staffed by people who have not received adequate training. Consequently, the services that are provided are sometimes botched, causing patients — many of them from low-income families — to seek medical help elsewhere and even file lawsuits. Moreover, some services are not what the patient came in to receive.

Clinics are in disrepair. One even had a sewage leak seeping under the door of its bathroom. The stench was so bad that patients were vomiting. Not to mention that for an organization providing invasive “medical” services, this is a sanitation concern and puts patients at risk.

Planned Parenthood clinics have also been known to run out of over-the-counter medication as a matter of course. They have slow-walked test results for sexually transmitted diseases with disastrous results.

The organization is in trouble. But what’s really astonishing is that a paper like The New York Times would expose this fact. The litany of serious offenses toward patients reads like something Live Action or other pro-life activist groups might report.

Why is Planned Parenthood doing so poorly? Abortions there haven’t slowed down, and, outrageously, this heinous organization received $700 million from taxpayers last year.

According to Chuck Donovan, founder and former president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute: “A fact sheet produced by Charlotte Lozier Institute based on Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report states that, since 2010, the organization’s federal revenue has increased by some 43%. During that same period, its total services have decreased by 17%, with even larger percentage declines for particular services. … In the most recent service year, Planned Parenthood carried out 392,715 abortions, a record toll. Overall, its net income for the service year was $178.6 million, leaving it with net assets in excess of $2.5 billion.”

The bottom line: Federal revenue has exponentially increased, services have decreased, and yet these clinics are filled with chaos, confusion, inefficiency, and medical malpractice.

Where has all the money gone? According to the Times, “Much of the national funding to affiliates went to legal support, public campaigns to expand abortion access and subsidies for patient navigators who help patients access abortions.” In other words, Planned Parenthood spends most of its money on lobbying for abortion, legal kerfuffles with patients and staff, and litigation against states for anti-abortion laws.

The Times concludes by talking about how staff members are underpaid, overworked, and often have cause to sue because of tort. The author also asserts that many have remained silent because they are afraid that any complaint or legal entanglement would reflect badly on Planned Parenthood and its mission.

While Katie Benner probably meant for this article to be a plea for the organization to shift its focus toward helping people, what she doesn’t realize is that Planned Parenthood is always going to be about abortion first. Margaret Sanger, its founder, was a professed eugenicist who wanted to bring about a more perfect human race through the purging of black people. She wrote about this in her book The Negro Project, which advocated for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks [black Americans] — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.” Suffice it to say that even now, Planned Parenthood endeavors to weed out the “undesirables” in society. Any organization that was founded on eradicating humanity should have been shuttered long ago. Yet Planned Parenthood continues to exist.

Perhaps another motivation for Benner’s critique was to alert Planned Parenthood to the danger that an audit from the Department of Government Efficiency presents. Planned Parenthood is a waste of taxpayer dollars that exploits people who are in trouble. It should be cut off from the federal dole. If that happens, it would probably be the organization’s coup de grâce. One can only hope and pray that this finally happens.