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September 11, 2025

The Welcome Decline of Planned Parenthood

It can no longer spout the 3% without having to explain its deceptive methods, and it can no longer claim to be essential to women’s overall reproductive health.

Planned Parenthood has been bleeding revenue for years — its leaders just won’t admit it. The nation’s leading peddlers of abortion are not exactly known for being honest about their services, motives, or even the risks to their patients in getting an abortion, so this is consistent with the behavior their organization has become known for.

Instead, they’re trying to blame President Donald Trump, the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), and pro-life activists for their financial decline and the need to close a number of their clinics. But the numbers don’t lie: their downward spiral started long before this legislation and has only continued to accelerate in that direction.

For years, Planned Parenthood and its allies have repeated the same script: Without them, women’s health in America — especially in underserved communities — would rapidly deteriorate, and any resulting harm would be the fault of pro-life advocates. They’ve also insisted that abortions are only a tiny percentage of what they do, claiming to provide a wide range of reproductive health services.

But now, as OBBBA funding cuts strip Medicaid eligibility from abortion providers, Planned Parenthood has been forced to close clinics — which doesn’t make sense if revenue comes primarily from a range of treatments, and killing the unborn is just a side gig.

These closures suggest that abortion isn’t the add-on that these liars long pretended it is — it’s at the core of their business model, and they have purposely steered themselves in that direction.

The Blaze provided data from Planned Parenthood’s own reports, showing the abortion giant has been scaling back on general health services for years:

Breast exams, cancer screenings, and pap smears are down 70% from 2010; contraception services are down 39%. In 2023–2024, prenatal services made up only 1.6% of total services, miscarriage care 0.9%, and adoption referrals 0.4%. The remaining 97% of pregnancy-related services at Planned Parenthood were exclusively abortions.

To further expose the lie of one of Planned Parenthood’s favorite defenses — the assertion that abortions account for only “3%” of services — the deception comes with how clinics calculate it. The left-wing FactCheck.org admits that while abortions technically make up a small percentage of total services Planned Parenthood provides, that number itself is misleading. Abortions are high-impact, revenue-heavy procedures, and lumping them in with minor services like Pap smears distorts reality. Even some Democrats in Congress have conceded that the “3%” claim is a statistical gimmick that hides Planned Parenthood’s true focus.

It goes without saying that abortionists are playing games with words and numbers. By labeling consultations, pregnancy tests, and abortion pill prescriptions as “separate services,” they make abortion appear marginal when, financially and operationally, it’s central.

In other words, the idea that Planned Parenthood is a full-service women’s health provider is a myth. Its paperwork proves it — and having no choice but to shut down clinics leaves little room for doubt.

Planned Parenthood is in decline — no question. Its leaders and propagandists can blame a recent piece of legislation all they want, but they started the downward roll on their own. OBBBA may be accelerating its collapse, but it isn’t the cause.

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