The Biden administration has promised to protect access to abortion (Getty Images)
The Biden-Harris administration ramped up its support for Planned Parenthood's abortion access following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Vice President Kamala Harris toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic last month, making her the first sitting VP to visit an abortion facility.
At the time, Harris said "attacks against an individual's right to make decisions about their own body are outrageous, and in many instances, just plain immoral."
The demand for abortion where states have limited or fully restricted its access rose by 700%, Planned Parenthood's report noted. In 2023, more than two dozen Planned Parenthood affiliates helped more than 33,000 women get abortions through financial and transportation assistance.
"Since the Supreme Court’s decision to take away the federal constitutional right to abortion, more than 20 states have banned some or all abortions," the report noted. "For Planned Parenthood health center staff, this was a year of moving mountains: finding appointments in other states and the resources to get patients there, building as much capacity as possible for abortion appointments, fulfilling increased demand in some places for birth control, and much more."
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Planned Parenthood aborted nearly 400,000 pregnancies in 2022-2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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The founder of pro-life group Live Action, Lila Rose, called the Biden administration's funding of Planned Parenthood "grotesque."
"Our government makes every American taxpayer complicit in this killing," she said.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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