Planned Parenthood Keeps Closing Facilities. But It Just Aborted A Record Number Of Babies.

As Planned Parenthood shutters facilities across the country, the organization continues to end the lives of unborn children at a rapid pace, recently setting a new record for total abortions in one year. 

A new report from the American Life League, first shared with The Daily Wire, shows that the number of physical Planned Parenthood facilities has declined from 567 in 2022 to 509 in May 2025. Despite that fact, Planned Parenthood acknowledged in its most recent annual report that it had aborted 402,230 unborn babies from 2022 to 2023, up from 392,715 the year prior.

The American Life League told The Daily Wire it believes that the increase in abortions was likely due to Planned Parenthood’s push for expanded abortion tourism and online options for ordering the abortion pill. 

“Planned Parenthood’s business model and facilities continue to make abortion their top priority. However, the landscape has changed in our post-Dobbs America, and the abortion giant is now capitalizing on its distribution of abortion pills to women, not only through the facilities themselves but through telehealth visits, its phone app, and its new virtual health centers,” the report says. 

As states have adopted tighter pro-life laws following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there has been a sharp increase in women traveling across state lines to get abortions. Planned Parenthood promotes this kind of travel and encourages women to seek financial assistance. The states that saw the greatest increase in abortion tourism in 2024 were Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas, and New Mexico.

At the same time, abortion by pill continues to increase. According to some estimates, medical abortions account for over 60% of all reported abortions. Even more go unreported because of the widespread availability of the abortion pill, even in states where all abortions are supposed to be banned. 

The American Life League found that 133 of Planned Parenthood’s 509 physical facilities offer telehealth options for ordering abortion pills. Abortion pills can also be obtained through Planned Parenthood’s app or a virtual health center.

There are currently 43 virtual health centers across 34 states, including 23 that offer abortion pill services, according to the American Life League. 

With Planned Parenthood’s app, women in states like Minnesota are able to order abortion pills with overnight shipping for $349. The only steps needed to get the pills are to request them, have a Planned Parenthood worker “review” the application, and then have the pills sent in “discreet” packaging to the woman’s home address or pharmacy. 

Planned Parenthood website.

American Life League National Director Katie Brown Xavios told The Daily Wire that she would like to see lawmakers take dramatic steps to crack down on the availability of the abortion pill. 

“I think given that reinstating the restrictions on the abortion pill doesn’t go far enough, we would have to completely take it off the market to affect any kind of change, because Planned Parenthood is always going to be two steps ahead with this kind of thing,” she said. 

Brown said it was positive that Planned Parenthood’s physical facilities were shuttering, including some that offer surgical abortions, partly the result of budget cuts due to the loss of government grants and funding.

Even more facilities could close if the Senate passes the “big, beautiful bill,” which cuts Medicaid reimbursements to facilities that obtain abortions. Planned Parenthood says these cuts could lead to the closure of some 200 more facilities. From 2022 to 2023, Planned Parenthood received nearly $800 million in taxpayer dollars.

American Life League report.

The number of Planned Parenthood facilities has steadily declined from their peak in the mid-1990s, when there were 938 facilities. The only states where Planned Parenthood currently does not have a physical or virtual presence are Wyoming, North Dakota, and Mississippi.

“While it remains unknown how many preborn babies are dying at the hands of Planned Parenthood from surgical, contraceptive, and pill abortions, it is clear that Planned Parenthood has built a landscape for more abortion through apps, telehealth, and virtual health centers, even as its physical facility numbers decline,” the report said.