(LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood affiliates in states considered pro-life bring in about the same amount of average income as those in pro-abortion states, suggesting more needs to be done to stop the nation’s largest abortion vendor, a new report finds.
The American Life League (ALL) researched the revenue for 81 Planned Parenthood facilities in states considered pro-life and for 418 in pro-abortion states. The group views the phrase “pro-life states” skeptically, since it points out that even states with some restrictions have exceptions for abortion. Pro-lifers, however, stress that every preborn baby is deserving of protection no matter the circumstances of his conception. Direct abortion is also never medically necessary, as medical experts have affirmed.
ALL explains, “America has no truly ‘pro-life’ states, as many still allow for abortions early in pregnancy and exceptions in all/most cases.”
The group explained further:
ALL found that the average income of the 41 Planned Parenthood affiliates in pro-abortion states is $43,389,872. However, 11 Planned Parenthood affiliates in “pro-life” states saw an average affiliate income of $41,208,358. Clearly there is not much difference in Planned Parenthood’s affiliate income in states with more abortion restrictions than those in states with little-to-no abortion restrictions.
Affiliates refers to the overarching organization, while facilities is the individual building.
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ALL’s national director shared a message of warning to pro-life activists and groups.
“I’ve heard life-advocates celebrate over states that have laws intended to protect preborn life at conception,” Katie Brown Xavios, stated in a news release. “[A]nd yet those same states have active Planned Parenthood facilities.”
Xavios said the “exceptions” in the abortion prohibitions are exploited by Planned Parenthood and that truly pro-life states must close them.
“The exceptions are the cracks that entities like Planned Parenthood prey on, and allow them to perform numerous abortions all while lawmakers can tout a ‘pro-life state,’” she said. “Babies condemned to the exception clause matter just as much as every other child, and until states seek to protect every single pre-born baby, they should not get to call themselves a pro-life state.”
Researcher Katherine Van Dyke shared similar criticism, specifically taking aim at Florida’s six-week abortion ban, which includes “medical,” “fetal anomaly,” rape, incest, and “human trafficking” exceptions.
“Even those states that enforce heartbeat laws still allow hundreds of thousands of preborn babies to be put to death in the weeks before their heartbeat is detectable and through exceptions post six-weeks’ gestation,” Van Dyke stated. “Florida has exceptions for abortion after six-weeks in all cases and even has an exception for human trafficking, as of 2024.”
The group began researching the revenue of Planned Parenthood affiliates for this report following Congress’ one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood and other “nonprofit” abortion vendors.
Though Congress is in charge of federal spending, and President Donald Trump signed the law, an activist judge still found a reason to block the defunding for now.
Obama-appointee Indira Talwani issued several orders blocking the law. Legal scholars and other political experts have criticized Judge Talwani for her legal reasoning and her revisions of her reasoning.
“Her handling of the Planned Parenthood funding case is a textbook case of judicial overreach,” Carrie Severino, a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, concluded in her analysis.
Despite the judicial activism, Planned Parenthood facilities appear to be shutting down both in response to the one-year defunding and other actions by Republican states, which affiliates say are harming its bottom line.
Professor Michael New, an expert on pro-life data, said 41 abortion facilities have closed or will close in 2025.
