Planned Parenthood released its annual report last week. The company performed 345,672 abortion procedures in the 2018-2019 fiscal year – early half of all abortions in the United States. It’s not sorry, but the annual report reveals an organisation that’s scrambling to defend abortion.
Even as Planned Parenthood’s heart-stopping work continues in clinics across the country, the annual report is filled with considerable trepidation over legal challenges to its business model. “We stand at an inflection point for reproductive health and rights,” the report begins. “Our opponents moved to dismantle our nation’s program for affordable birth control this year, forcing providers like Planned Parenthood out of the program with an unethical gag rule” (referring to its decision to withdraw from Title X funding due to the reintroduction of the ban on offering abortion services to Title X clients).
