Since 2017, I’ve written a piece every year analyzing Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report, which the organization typically releases in January. The reports disclose information about the abortion group’s funding, how it spends its money, how many clients it sees, and how many “services” it provides.
We’re now a full week into June, and Planned Parenthood’s annual report for last fiscal year has yet to appear.
In 2021, the group published its annual report in February. In 2018, 2019, and 2020, the reports came out in January, usually within the first few days of the month. The last time it took nearly this long for a report to emerge was 2017, a delay almost certainly caused by Planned Parenthood’s damage-control efforts during the congressional investigation into the group’s alleged participation in illegal sales of fetal tissue from aborted babies.
So why this year’s delay, the longest in at least five years? My guess is the group is holding the report until we get a Supreme Court decision in Dobbs, so that it can serve as the group’s opening salvo in the post-Roe abortion policy fight to come. Whenever it emerges, the report is likely to reveal what Planned Parenthood’s reports nearly always reveal: a rise in the number of abortions performed, hardly any provision of abortion alternatives or actual health-care services, and continued expansion into providing highly profitable hormone “therapy,” which the group calls “gender affirming care.”