National Review Online
Monday, September 29, 2025
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.
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