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

	PP’s money sources
	Profit from pill sales
	Profit from surgical abortions

PP's money sources

When looking at the details of Planned Parenthood's business, one thing is clear. PP is able to find money to conduct its affairs.

As the chart below indicates, there are three main sources of PP's income: clinic fees; gifts; and taxpayer money.

The exact percentage each of these contributes to PP's income varies from year to year, but each is about 1/3 of PP's income.

We've already talked about PP's clinic fees and how it is driving up this number by doing more abortions in-house and by talking each customer into buying more services.

We've also talked about corporate and foundation gifts and their relationship to PP's abortion business.

The third major part of PP's income is from taxpayer money. These are funds it gets from federal, state and local governments. The summary page shows the annual amounts of this money over the last five years.

Over the last 11 years, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has received a total of $1.634 Billion. About 75 percent of this is from the federal government (through programs such as Title X and Title XIX) and 25 percent is from state and local governments.

Despite this massive amount of government funding, PP cannot point to any program it has run which has improved the major problems for which PP gets money—teen sexual activity, teen pregnancies, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases.

What has improved is Planned Parenthood's bottom line. As more and more government money pours in, Planned Parenthood racks up year after year of profits. You can see the annual profits for the last five years on the summary page. If we take all the profits for the last 11 years, Planned Parenthood has made $212.3 Million.

When the U.S. Congress went against all of Planned Parenthood's advice and passed a mandatory abstinence education bill and funded it at a $50 Million a year level, we finally saw some turn-around in the teen pregnancy and abortion rates.

Planned Parenthood fought hard, and is still fighting hard against the abstinence programs. With growing evidence of the programs' effectiveness, could it be that PP fears these programs will eventually put PP out of business?

It certainly makes you wonder.

Profit from pill sales

One of the basics of Planned Parenthood's business is the profit it makes from the sale of birth control pills. STOPP did a report on this in 1993.

Updating that report from the numbers in this PPFA Annual Report, we estimate that, in 1997/98, Planned Parenthood took in a total of $60 million from the sale of birth control pills and this netted Planned Parenthood a profit of $45 million.

Profit from surgical abortions

Exact profits from surgical abortions will vary from facility to facility depending on the expenses involved. However, STOPP does have data on file from Planned Parenthood in Sarasota (Florida) stating that it planned to charge $325 for an abortion and that it needed nine abortions a month to cover fixed expenses and would, thereafter make $140 for each abortion.

If we use these numbers and apply them to the rest of PPFA, we estimate that the surgical abortion business annually brings PPFA a profit of $20.9 million. As Planned Parenthood increases the number of abortions performed in house, this number will rise.