Planned Parenthood Exposed
Planned Parenthood promotes itself as a “gold standard” for abortion, using euphemisms like “reproductive justice” or “women’s healthcare.” However, the organization has been involved in malpractice lawsuits, patient deaths, abuse of employees, medicaid fraud – even the illegal sale of fetal tissue from aborted babies.
Planned Parenthood also tells women that abortion procedures at its facilities have little or no risk. A growing body of evidence proves this is far from the truth.
The actual number of women affected by abortion complications at Planned Parenthoods is unknown, as very few mandatory reporting requirements exist for abortion providers. In the realm of chemical abortions, especially, Planned Parenthood encourages women to lie to emergency room doctors when complications arise, further distorting the real rate of abortion complications.(1)
However, through research, eyewitness accounts, court documents, and public records, the truth about abuses within the abortion industry becomes undeniable – and Planned Parenthood is the number one perpetrator.
Operation Rescue and other organizations are compiling public documentation of numerous health code violations that take place in Planned Parenthoods. Common violations include failure to observe infection control protocols such as hand washing, failure to properly sterilize surgical instruments, expired drugs, dirty facility conditions, lack of emergency plans and equipment, as well as untrained staff.(2) All these create an unsafe environment for women.
A growing body of evidence shows Planned Parenthood will do anything for profit – and leave women to pay the price.
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S ABUSES INCLUDE
PATIENT DEATHS: In 2024, Lexi Arguello died after a catastrophic complication during an abortion at a Colorado Planned Parenthood.(3) Staff delayed emergency care and Lexi died hours later. In 2022, Alyona Dixon died after complications from abortion pills she received at a Nevada Planned Parenthood.(4) In 2012, Tonya Reaves died from a hemorrhage caused by a perforated uterus during an abortion at an Illinois Planned Parenthood. Again, staff delayed calling 911.(5) These are only a few of the women killed by Planned Parenthood.
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES: In 2025, Operation Rescue investigated 36 medical emergencies at Planned Parenthoods across the nation, many of them due to life-threatening hemorrhages after abortion.(6) Those 36 women represent a small fraction of the actual abortion emergencies experienced at Planned Parenthood facilities. Many onsite medical emergencies go unobserved by eyewitnesses, and other abortion complications occur at home after women leave the facility.
MEDICAID FRAUD: Planned Parenthood currently faces the possibility of $1.8 billion in damages from a false claims suit that was filed after its affiliates, during ongoing litigation, continued to receive Medicaid reimbursements despite the removal of that funding from Planned Parenthood in Texas and Louisiana.(7)
During the 2020 pandemic, several Planned Parenthood affiliates received $80 million in relief funds earmarked for small businesses, even though each affiliate represented a multi-million-dollar business and was exempt from the business shutdowns.(8) These are two examples, but Planned Parenthood and its affiliates have been found guilty of millions more in Medicaid fraud. Despite this systemic criminality, Planned Parenthood’s 2024-25 annual report showed it still received $832 million in taxpayer funding—nearly $2.3 million per day.(9)
THE ILLEGAL SALE OF BABIES’ ORGANS: In 2015, undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress(10) showed Planned Parenthood engaging in numerous state and federal violations, including illegally selling aborted baby remains for profit and altering procedures to preserve fetal organs for resale.
In December 2016, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Special Investigative Panel on Infant Lives(11) referred Planned Parenthood to the Department of Justice after their investigations found probable cause to believe Planned Parenthood's trafficking in aborted baby remains broke the law.
ABUSE OF EMPLOYEES: In March 2026, Planned Parenthood of Illinois agreed to pay $500,000 to end a discrimination investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.(12) In January 2026, six former employees of Planned Parenthood Southeast also filed discrimination charges against the affiliate.(13) In February 2025, the New York Times published a bombshell exposé (14) in which former and current Planned Parenthood employees outed the organization for terrible working conditions.
Planned Parenthood also regularly promotes dishonest and misleading statements. It insists abortions comprise only 4% of its services, however, a 2023-24 annual report showed women seeking help related to pregnancy were sold an abortion 97% of the time. Meanwhile prenatal services, miscarriage care, and adoption referrals accounted for only a meager 1.7%, 0.6%, and 0.7% of services, respectively.(15)
Planned Parenthood claims to be a "relentless" provider of cancer screenings; however, since 2014, cancer screenings and prevention have dropped by 43%, with a 55% decline in breast exams and 38% in pap tests.(16) Meanwhile, since 2014, the number of abortions performed has increased by 34%.(17)
Other abuses:
Widespread failure to report child sex abuse or trafficking.(18)
Participation in sex-selection abortions.(19)
Targeting minority communities and, especially, Black women for abortion.(20)
Pressuring employees to violate state regulations.(21)
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