Summary and analysis of
Planned Parenthood’s
operation in the United States

	Background
	1999 data

Background

The organization known as Planned Parenthood has operations all over the world. The original Planned Parenthood group started in the United States and is known today as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).

Our organization, STOPP International, was formed specifically to track PPFA's operations and to counter its emotional claims with fact. Once each year, we present a review of PPFA's operations. This issue of The Ryan Report presents the 1999 review.

All data in this report, except where specifically noted otherwise, is taken from PPFA's own documents. These documents include:

1. PPFA's Annual Reports (issued by PPFA to cover each fiscal year);
2. PPFA's Annual Service Reports (PPFA has not made this report public since 1992);
3. PPFA's web site, press releases and interviews.

As historical data is presented, it must be pointed out that PPFA changed its fiscal year in 1993/1994. It went from reporting financial numbers on a calendar year basis to reporting these numbers on a fiscal year basis that begins July 1 of one year and ends June 30 of the following year. This change presents an anomaly in the financial data for 1993 (it is data for only six months). In addition, we have annualized the data from PPFA's 1993/1994 Annual Report so that it can be correctly compared with other years.

PPFA continues to report its "service" data (such as the number of abortions) on a calendar year basis.

1999 Data

At the end of this report you will find a summary of the major financial and service data for Planned Parenthood over the last five years.

PPFA's total income has steadily increased from $462.5 million in 1993/94 to $554.2 million in 1997/98—a 19.8 percent increase over five years. The largest change came in fees charged to consumers at its clinics—a 31.4 percent increase.

This increase in clinic income occurred despite a drop in the number of birth control customers (from 1.9 million in 1993 to 1.87 million in 1997). STOPP calculates that PPFA was able to effect this increase by:

1. selling each customer more services and
2. doing more high-income services (like abortion).

We estimate the average PPFA customer spent $80.61 in 1992 and $98.38 in 1997.

The data on the summary page also shows that PPFA made a profit in each of the last five years—a total of $129.4 million with $42.3 million in just the last year.

Finally, PPFA's surgical abortion business changed over this period with abortions performed rising from 134,277 to 165,174 and abortion referrals dropping from 80,743 to 47,550. This will be further analyzed in this report.