Planned Parenthood Continues Downward Spiral: 34 Facilities CLOSED in 2014

ALL president Judie Brown stated, “Every day a Planned Parenthood closes is a good day for our nation. We still have a long way to go. We will not stop until every Planned Parenthood facility is closed.”

The highlights of the report include:

• During 2014, Planned Parenthood Federation of America continued to close “health centers” at a record rate. This year, it closed 34 centers in a total of 19 different states.
• Planned Parenthood now operates 668 centers in the United States, of which 337 commit surgical and/or medical abortions.
• Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain, operating 45.6 percent of all the surgical/medical abortion facilities.
• This year is the first time in 10 years that Planned Parenthood had fewer surgical abortion centers AND fewer medical abortion centers AND fewer total number of surgical/medical abortion centers.
• There are two Planned Parenthood affiliates that do not do surgical or medical abortions at any of their centers:
  • Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma
  • Planned Parenthood of West and Northern Michigan
• North Dakota continues to be the only state where Planned Parenthood has no centers that provide medical services.
• With the closing of its Rapid City, South Dakota, center in 2014, Planned Parenthood now has five states in which it operates only one center.

A full copy of the latest STOPP report can be found at http://www.stopp.org/pdfs/2014/STOPP_Facilities2014.pdf.

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