Planned Parenthood performed an increased number of abortions in 2014 and gave out less contraceptive and cancer prevention services, according to their 2013-2014 annual report.
Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions in 2013, a number which is up from its 327,166 performed in 2012, according to the organization's annual report issued on Dec. 31.
"We've come a long way since Margaret Sanger was jailed in 1916 for opening America's very first birth control clinic," tout Planned Parenthood chair Alexis McGill Johnson and president Cecile Richards as they introduce the report. "Today, 99 percent of sexually active American women at some point in their lives use birth control - and, thanks to Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act, more than 48 million women are now eligible to receive it with no copay."
"Until 1973, young healthy American women were dying because of illegal and unsafe abortions," the Planned Parenthood leaders say. "Today, abortion is one of the safest medical procedures in this country."
The report also showed that $528.4 million of the organization's revenues - 41 percent of its total funds - come from "government health services and grants and reimbursements."
Critics from the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List argued that the increase in abortions is revealing Planned Parenthood's agenda for leading women to getting abortions, reported World Net Daily (WND).
"We've come a long way since Margaret Sanger was jailed in 1916 for opening America's very first birth control clinic," the PPFA president and chair write in the report. "Today, 99 percent of sexually active American women at some point in their lives use birth control - and, thanks to Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act, more than 48 million women are now eligible to receive it with no copay."
