According to the most recent data from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, pregnancy resource centers and federally funded health clinics now outnumber Planned Parenthood locations 14 to 1.
As of this month, there are more than 5,300 clinics that offer comprehensive health care along with specific health-care services for women. There are also more than 2,700 pregnancy-resource centers across the country. By contrast, there are a mere 545 Planned Parenthood facilities in the U.S., even though the abortion business bills itself as an essential health-care provider.
As the Lozier Institute report points out, though health clinics and pregnancy centers offer a much greater variety of actual health-care services to a much higher number of people, the funding they receive pales in comparison to the government money funneled to Planned Parenthood:
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) receive funds from the HRSA Health Center Program to provide primary care services to vulnerable and underserved populations on a sliding scale. Pregnancy centers are typically privately funded and focused on supporting pregnant women facing difficult circumstances with medical care and referrals, education, mentoring, and material support at virtually no cost to the client. Planned Parenthood meanwhile received over $600 million in government funding in 2019 and focuses on abortion, reaching its highest-ever number of over 350,000 U.S. abortions in 2019 – 96.4% of its pregnancy resolution services reported in its latest service data.
The full report is well worth a look, especially for its detailed maps of both the whole country and each state, with the layout of health centers, pregnancy-resource centers, and Planned Parenthood facilities. Especially in a post-Roe world, we need more support than ever for those who actually offer health care to women, assist them in choosing life for their unborn children, and help them care for those children after birth; Planned Parenthood, by design, serves none of those goals.