This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood is running fewer brick-and-mortar abortion businesses these days. But it is actually increasing the abortions it performs.
Because it has taken the abortion industry online.
That's according to a new report from STOPP, the American Life League's program to monitor Planned Parenthood and comment on its activities.
"America's largest abortion provider is deliberately skirting legislated protections for expectant mothers and their preborn children while continuing to receive nearly $800 million in taxpayer funding," explained the organization.
It is the new "2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report" that documents the trends.
It shows while the number of the abortion chain's physical locations dropped "to its lowest level since 2006," it performed a record number of abortions, 402,230, in 2022-2023.
This was done through "online appointments, virtual health centers, and abortion pill mobile apps."
"Planned Parenthood is leveraging the Internet to skirt state abortion laws," said Katie Brown Xavios, national director of American Life League. "Even in states where abortion pills are restricted, women can book virtual appointments and receive abortion drugs in the mail. This is not only unethical, it's illegal."
The report explains that from 2022 to last month, the nation's leading player in the abortion industry "shut down 66 brick-and-mortar locations, dropping 22 from its total facility count in the first five months of 2025. Yet in its 2023-2024 annual report, we see that the abortion conglomerate took credit for performing a record high number of abortions – 402,230 – in 2022-2023."
"Planned Parenthood is adapting to find new ways of delivering abortion in the face of state attempts to shield women and children from harm," explained Xavios. "As legislators seek ways to defund the abortion vendor and Planned Parenthood is closing doors, the organization is infiltrating the virtual healthcare sphere, moving online to entice its clients to end the lives of their preborn children through convenient, impersonal telehealth services. In the face of declining facilities for on-site abortions, Planned Parenthood has cunningly leveraged the telehealth platform to prescribe abortion pills to women, even in states where the pills are illegal, furthering its largest moneymaking 'service.'"
The report also notes that travel to states where the abortion industry essentially is unregulated, or nominally regulated, has increased, including to Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas and New Mexico.
Planned Parenthood boasted in 2023 along it "helped" more than 33,000 women travel out of state to get an abortion.
The report said even as the world suffered from COVID-19, "the Biden administration temporarily lifted regulations on mailing abortion pills through the postal service so that women could have abortions without in-person appointments. Then in 2023, the FDA permanently removed regulations on mailing abortion pills throughout the United States, making it easier for both the abortionist to distribute the pills and for mothers to obtain them. Additionally, shield laws in seven states allow abortionists to legally provide abortion pills via telehealth to women who live in states with more restrictions."
At Planned Parenthood, it turned its work toward telehealth options for women, virtual health centers and a social media app to push abortions.
"As Planned Parenthood increases its virtual footprint, one has to wonder if this is an attempt to counter the steep decline in brick-and-mortar facilities," Xavios suggested. "Another possibility is that Planned Parenthood is desperate to regain market share from rogue abortion pill drug cartel traffickers that are snagging the abortion giant's customers and profits via shadowy virtual operations. The truth likely lies somewhere in the middle, but one thing is certain: Planned Parenthood is panicking, and it's changing its game."
Katherine Van Dyke, American Life League's lead researcher for the STOPP report, summed up the findings saying, "Every time we learn that a Planned Parenthood facility has closed its doors for good, we can rejoice in knowing that lives and souls will be saved without an abortion vendor in the neighborhood. However, Planned Parenthood is now utilizing the Internet to continue to earn big bucks off of its most profitable revenue stream—aborting preborn babies. And they've illegally played a part in trafficking more than 33,000 women across state lines to get those abortions."
American Life League president Judie Brown said Planned Parenthood now promotes abortion by mail, letting women "kill their babies in the privacy of their home. If this is not demonic, then what is? We must end Planned Parenthood's reign of death."
