Think Planned Parenthood Really Supports Women and Girls?

Planned Parenthood’s “Care, No Matter What” motto rings hollow and empty in light of their own track record. Women and girls deserve far better than what Planned Parenthood offers.

Planned Parenthood consistently opposes informed consent laws, calling them “biased” and a “barrier” to abortion.(1,2,3,4,5) Only one in four former abortion center employees report obtaining informed consent from women prior to abortions.(6)

Planned Parenthood encourages sex-selective abortion. (7)

Planned Parenthood lobbied in favor of child marriage. Yes, you read that correctly. In 2017 and 2023, Planned Parenthood lobbied to keep child marriage legal in California,(8,9) and at least 48 minors have been subjected to child marriage practices in California since 2017. (10) Child marriage has been used as a loophole to avoid prosecution for statutory rape.(11)

An undercover investigation in 2011 found that a Planned Parenthood employee not only failed to report suspected sex-trafficking of a minor but also offered advice for concealing the abuse.(12) Planned Parenthood’s response was to train their staff to spot undercover journalists rather than to report abuse.(13) 65% of sex trafficking victims experience abortion. 29% visit a Planned Parenthood while they are being trafficked.(14)

Planned Parenthood advocates against parental notification laws,(15,16) despite pleas from abuse and trafficking victims who testified that these laws would have rescued them from further abuse.(17)

In February of 2024, the Missouri Attorney General filed suit against Planned Parenthood Great Plains for trafficking minors out of state to obtain abortions without parental consent.(18)

Planned Parenthood has repeatedly failed to report rape, incest, and sexual abuse of minors.(19,20) Court documents show that a girl who was being abused by her father was taken to Planned Parenthood for three abortions in five years. Planned Parenthood failed to report that she was being abused.(21) There are also multiple instances of Planned Parenthood helping abusers obtain birth control for their victims.(22)