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A file photo shows protesters praying outside a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio. Planned Parenthood's annual report for 2024-2025 shows both an increase in abortion and taxpayer funding. (OSV News photo/Gaelen Morse, Reuters)

Latest Planned Parenthood report: abortions and taxpayer funding up, cancer screenings down

April 12, 2026
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Planned Parenthood’s new 2024-2025 annual report showed an increase in abortions from the previous year’s report, while also showing an increase in government funding. At the same time, it showed a decrease in cancer screenings and prevention services.

The organization’s latest annual report reflects its fiscal year as of June 30, 2025, just a few days before President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4.

That legislation, which enacted key items from his legislative agenda on issues including taxes and immigration, also included a provision eliminating funds to health providers who also perform abortions — but just for one year.

Although it was not named in the provision, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, sued in response, arguing the parameters for ending these funds effectively singled it out. However, the provision was ultimately allowed to go into effect. But it is scheduled to expire on Independence Day July 4.

“PPFA is not only weathering this storm — we’re looking beyond it. Because it will end,” a joint opening message in the report from Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Alexandra Guevara, its board chair, said.

The report showed Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, performed 434,450 abortions, an increase of over 32,200, or 8%, from the previous year’s report.

Planned Parenthood reported $832 million in “Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants,” an increase of about $39.8 million from the previous year’s report.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood reported 389,449 total cancer screening and prevention services — such as pap tests and HPV vaccinations — a decrease from 426,268 the previous year.

Tessa Cox, senior research associate at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement, “Yet again, abortions performed by Planned Parenthood hit a record high, demonstrating that abortion remains a top priority for the organization.”

“Over the past decade, abortions, government funding, and total revenue soared, even as the number of clients served has declined and total services have stagnated,” Cox said. “Women deserve better alternatives, which outnumber Planned Parenthood by 15 to 1 nationwide.”

Federal law generally prohibits the use of Medicaid funds for abortion. Supporters of allowing Planned Parenthood to receive Medicaid funds argue the group provides cancer screening and prevention services. But opponents argue the funds are fungible and could be used to facilitate abortion, and therefore the organization should be denied taxpayer funds.

The Catholic Church teaches that all human life is sacred from conception to natural death, and as such, opposes direct abortion while also advocating for increased support for those living in poverty or other causes that can push a woman toward aborting her unborn child.

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