As you would have anticipated, the Abortion Industry was in full crying mode once the Supreme Court ruled that their patients—in this case Julie Edwards—cannot sue over South Carolina’s 2018 decision to remove Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program. The tally in Thursday’s Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic case was 6-3. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion, was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts.
Barely mentioned in the many, many accounts I read was this from Justice Gorsuch which I highlighted:
At the same time, the State took steps that, it said, would help ensure that a “variety of other nongovernmental entities and governmental agencies” would continue to provide “access to necessary medical care and important women’s health and family planning services.” According to the State, it has “140 [other] federally qualified health clinics and pregnancy centers, not counting the numerous private health providers who accept Medicaid.”
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In other words, as pro-life champion Rep. Chris Smith wrote
This decision frees other states to invest in
real health care without fear that Planned Parenthood will misuse the court system to block a state’s right to administer its own Medicaid program and choose not to subsidize organizations that pay for elective abortion.
Nicole Russell, one of the very few pro-life columnists at USA Today headlined her column “SCOTUS boosts effort to defund Planned Parenthood. It’s a win for women’s health. I hope other states will now bar using tax dollars to pay for abortions and ban Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid.”
Russell writes, “Thousands of other providers also are available to help women with medical care,” and then links to a “CPC Map” which reports that of March 2024, there were 2,633 Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) operating in the U.S.
In May 2025 The Charlotte Rosier Institute produced “Women Have Real Choices”. It shows interactive maps which “depict the more than 8,800 community health centers that provide comprehensive care to vulnerable populations and offer women’s health services, in comparison to just 579 Planned Parenthood centers as of Spring 2025.”
Russell’s column is full of details, illustrating how abortion is at the core of Planned Parenthood’s business model. Here are two.
*“In past years, about 40% of Planned Parenthood’s budget − more than $500 billion a year − has come from Medicaid and other government sources.”
*“Apologists for Planned Parenthood claim that abortions are only a small percentage of the services the organization provides. Yet, Planned Parenthood’s 2023 annual report shows that it performed nearly 400,000 abortions in 2022. That was more than 60% of all the reported abortions in the United States that year.”
Of course, there is much research that documents how gigantic PPFA’s role is in the abortion industry and just how much money it receives from public and private resources. There’s Funding the Nation’s Largest Abortion Business: An Investigation into Public and Private Support of Planned Parenthood
In 2022-23, it is estimated that Planned Parenthood received at least $233,293,400 in revenue from various sources for abortions performed.
- 44% of current Title X grantees (FY24), excluding territories, provide funding to at least one Planned Parenthood location, either as a subrecipient or service site within their projects.
- In just four years, Planned Parenthood’s overall reported revenue has increased by over $384 million.
As I wrote elsewhere today, the Big Beautiful Bill, which would defund Planned Parenthood, has passed the House and is working its way through the Senate. Fingers crossed.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
