By Jim Sedlak
In a press statement released on January 25, 2021, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-04), Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) responded to the public release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report which revealed that over the course of three years (FY2016-FY2018) nearly $2 billion in taxpayer dollars went to three abortion groups: Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Marie Stopes International (MSI), and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
PPFA, the operator of the United States’ largest abortion chain, received approximately $1.6 billion in government funding over the three-year period reviewed. Of this amount, approximately $304 million came through federal grants and cooperative agreements, while the majority ($1.3 billion) was in the form of Medicaid and other reimbursements. Current federal law prohibits federal funding of abortions but has no limitation on the funding of organizations that kill babies through abortion.
Money paid to Planned Parenthood was actually given to its affiliates. We provide you here with the list, taken from the GAO report, of total Medicaid funds received by each of 59 affiliates of PPFA with totals (in $ millions) from 2016-2018:
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte $200.47
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, Inc. $137.31
Planned Parenthood of Orange & San Bernardino Counties, Inc. $131.56
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles $108.60
Planned Parenthood Northern California $92.98
Planned Parenthood of New York City, Inc. $55.83*
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota $41.60
Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley, Inc. $35.75
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. $34.47
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands $34.02
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, Inc. $30.38
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast $30.24
Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette $30.12
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Inc. $25.90
Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. $24.71
Planned Parenthood of Central and Greater Northern New Jersey, Inc. $18.70
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho $18.20
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York, Inc. $17.42
Planned Parenthood of Illinois $16.99
Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson $15.39*
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon $15.27
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts $14.60
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio $13.53
Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania $11.33
Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. $11.15
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc. $9.96
Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley, Inc. $9.52*
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England $9.44
Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Inc. $7.97*
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. $7.39
Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan $7.30
Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, Inc. $6.57
Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes $5.86*
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey $5.77
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland $5.44
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region $5.31
Planned Parenthood Keystone $5.00
Planned Parenthood of Montana, Inc. $4.36
Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York, Inc. $3.81
Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood $3.17
Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid-Missouri $2.83
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic $2.82
Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. $2.70
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, Inc. $2.67
Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida $2.67
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania $2.65
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri $2.20
Planned Parenthood South Texas $1.47
Planned Parenthood of Delaware $1.40
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Inc. $1.30
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah $0.54
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood $0.53
Planned Parenthood of West and Northern Michigan, Inc. $0.49
Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey $0.45
Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida $0.29
Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region $0.28
Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma, Inc. $0.16
Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. $0.04
Planned Parenthood of Middle & East Tennessee, Inc. $0.00
Total Medicaid payments to PPFA affiliates from 2016-2018: $1,288.87 million
*These five affiliates merged in 2020 to become Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. Their combined Medicaid funding is $94.57 million, which puts PPGNY in fifth place on the above list.
We encourage you to use these numbers in your local fights against the various PPFA affiliates, as well as national efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding. While, in most states, the money PP receives from Medicaid is the largest single source of its taxpayer funding, that is not true in California.
California has two state-funded programs—Medi-Cal Managed Care and Family PACT—that, in some cases, give affiliates more than the federal government. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, for example, is headquartered in San Jose, CA, and its 2018 Federal Form 990 reports taxpayer income of:
Medi-Cal Managed Care – $34,546,728
Family PACT – $26,617,377
Medi-Cal/Medicaid – $11,653,665
We hope all this information will be helpful to you as we work to cause such discontent with Planned Parenthood that it will have no choice but to close down and get out of town.
Jim Sedlak is executive director of American Life League, founder of STOPP International, and host of a weekly talk show on the Radio Maria Network. He has been successfully fighting Planned Parenthood since 1985.