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Beerworth: Aborting Planned Parenthood’s funding is long overdue

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by Mary Beerworth

Americans should not be forced to fund the politically and ideologically-driven abortion behemoth that is Planned Parenthood (PP). PP should be blocked permanently from receiving a dime of taxpayer funding.

While falling short of fully defunding the organization, the recent vote by the US Congress to withhold funding to Planned Parenthood for a full year is a step in the right direction. In a desperate attempt to hold on to the taxpayer funding, Planned Parenthood has filed suit in a delaying tactic that is unlikely to succeed. 

A February, 2025 New York Times article exposed the substandard care to be found at Planned Parenthood. While PP attempts to blame a lack of funding for the low quality of services, there is little question that the organization prioritizes political activism over high quality health care. According to the article, the number of patients they see today has dropped 60% since the 1990’s from a high of 5 million patients served across 900 clinics to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics.  Staff members complain in the article that patient care is compromised by low salaries, chronic understaffing, high turnover, inadequate training and aging facilities. The full NY Times article is here. 

Facts on the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA):

The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, had deep roots in the racist, eugenics movements of the past, including direct ties to University of Vermont Professor Henry Perkins who promoted the targeting of poor and minority populations for elimination through government run, involuntary sterilization programs. This terrible chapter of Vermont history is well-documented here: Vermont’s eugenic program. 

Planned Parenthood has never apologized for their founder’s promotion of eugenics and Sanger’s desire to “eliminate” certain populations. Sanger famously stated in her book, Woman and the New Race, “the most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”  

That same eugenic thread runs through the Planned Parenthood of today. It is well documented that poor minority women have abortions at a disproportionally higher rate than white women. Black women have the highest abortion rates, followed by Hispanic women, while white women have the lowest rates. Planned Parenthood is known for locating their clinics in neighborhoods where people of color and people who are impoverished live. Click here. 

In 2024, PPFA affiliates received nearly $800 million in taxpayer funding and aborted a record 400,000 unborn babies in that same year. PPFA itself raises hundreds of millions but spends no money on medical services and exists largely to promote and protect unlimited, unregulated access to abortion. According to Planned Parenthood’s Political Action fund, an additional $69.5 million was spent, in part, to try elect pro-abortion presidential candidate Kamala Harris and others in 2024.

Reinforcing that PPFA is about abortion not about health care, the organization fired Leana Wen, MD, the CEO who attempted to broaden the organization’s focus beyond abortion. Dr. Leana Wen, who was only the second medical doctor hired to head the organization, was forced out after less than a year. Read more here. Dr. Wen was replaced by abortion-rights activist, Alexis McGill Johnson. But perhaps the most famous CEO/President of PPFA was the late Cecile Richards who famously proclaimed that her goal was to turn Planned Parenthood into “the largest kick–butt political organization.” 

Planned Parenthood of Vermont

Planned Parenthood has managed for decades to insert their radical sex education programs into the state’s public school system claiming to be “experts” in sexuality.  However, PP of VT’s views on what is age-appropriate for children would be objectionable to most parents if they knew what was being taught in schools. PP takes advantage of their access to young students to promote their services.

Most recently PP of VT worked to pass legislation that forces our schools to provide condoms to middle school students as young as 12. And when those condoms fail, kids can head to Planned Parenthood clinics without involving parents. Planned Parenthood of Vermont has had a history of disturbing behavior and public scandals dating back to the late 1980’s as documented here.

While the Vermont legislature recently apologized for the misguided, state-sponsored, eugenic programs of the past, the Vermont legislature has never requested an apology from Planned Parenthood of Vermont for their association with eugenic promoters. Quite the opposite. In fact, Planned Parenthood’s agenda has recently been the first order of legislative business, especially under the leadership of the current Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski, who was once an executive employee of PP of VT.

Planned Parenthood has also diverted funds from their health care services to their political arm, Planned Parenthood of Vermont Action Fund. 

Planned Parenthood of Vermont:

  • Actively opposes legislation aimed at protecting pregnant women from those who engage in criminal activity resulting in the loss of the life of their unborn child, even though the “Crimes against an unborn child” legislation specifically exempts abortion. Senate bill here.
  • Actively opposes any proposed legislation requiring the notification of a parent of a minor daughter seeking an abortion, leaving parents in the dark and potentially allowing sexual predators to force a minor into an abortion in order to cover his crime.

In 2024, they lobbied in support of lowering the standard of medical care in order to increase access to chemical abortion drugs despite evidence of harm to women without protective guidelines. Their support of the bill (S28) gives the lie to the premise that PP is concerned about women’s health. While claiming to offer “high quality healthcare services” everyone knows PP of VT clinics specialize in providing abortions and operates without physicians on their premises.

In 2023, they lobbied for legislation to give the pro-abortion Attorney General of Vermont, Charity Clark, the power to shut down Vermont’s non-profit, privately-funded organizations that offer alternatives to abortion and provide pregnancy support. PP of VT does not offer pre-natal care on any of their Vermont premises and refers girls and women elsewhere if they choose to carry their babies to term.

In 2023 Planned Parenthood lobbied for passage of S.37 (Act 15) to ensure unlimited, unregulated abortion in Vermont and to expand their services to states across the country. Very specifically the law allows PP of VT to provide abortion services, as well as transgender hormones, to minors and others in states outside of Vermont – even in states that have laws in place to protect minors (i.e. New Hampshire, Louisiana, Florida and many others).

From 2018 through 2022, they led the fight for passage of Article 22, a constitutional amendment to secure abortion rights throughout pregnancy – even though that right was already secured by prior court order (1972 Beecham vs Leahy) and by statute (Act 47 in 2019). Planned Parenthood of Vermont’s Ballot Committee spent $1.4 million in 2022 to assure passage of the radical abortion amendment.

In 2024 PP lobbied again to protect and expand their ongoing involvement in the distribution of cross-sex hormones to young people experiencing “gender dysphoria.” It has recently been reported that nationwide Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of the dangerous drugs. For more information on PP of VT’s involvement in dispensing cross-sex hormones click here.

Both nationally as well as here in Vermont, Planned Parenthood uses bullying tactics to force compliance with their political agenda, demanding 100 % support of their extreme agenda from the candidates they endorse. Legislators who support even modest proposals – such as notifying a parent of a minor before a surgical or medical abortion is performed (as most other states require) or legislation that would ensure that proper protocols are in place for the safety of girls and women – will be targeted for defeat by PP and labelled “anti-abortion.”

Any organization with an agenda this radical and political should never again have access to our tax dollars. Readers should be aware, however, that the current Vermont legislature, along Governor Phil Scott, may well have the votes to grant PP of VT even more of our state tax dollars to make up for the cuts in federal funding.

Planned Parenthood in Vermont, nationwide and worldwide has an enormous fundraising capability and can raise private funds from their millionaire and billionaire friends who share their extreme ideology. 

With our entire health care system in crisis, Planned Parenthood should not be on any list for taxpayer funding.

The author is the executive director of Vermont Right to Life.

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  2. Thank you – excellent and very strong summation including their history and current practices. One of the many disturbing aspects of what they do with young folks is they bypass regular mental health screening practices so they can pass out hormones like candy without assessments. They have become ideological driven rather than healthcare driven. I support defunding.

  3. Totally agree with you Mary! So sad that Vermont wants the designation of being a pro death sanctuary state. Such an oxymoron. God help Vermont!

  4. Every parent of every student in the State of Vermont should read this article!!! And then go to your children’s public school and find out what they are teaching them and how planned parenthood is involved in their child’s education and not in a good way. There’s no teaching to love yourself. Or that God made you and He loves you AND to love your neighbor as you love yourself unless you are at a Catholic or Christian School.
    No-they are taught to hate the color of their skin, to not believe their parents but to believe in their socialistic government who will take care of them from cradle to grave. I want to know who is teaching children they are god and can change their gender any time they want??? This to me is the biggest lie!!! And for kids, there is no emphasis on academic excellence. Probably because the planet will be gone in 12 years from climate change so what’s the sense of wanting to excel at anything?
    Every Vermonter should read about Vermont’s role in Eugenics starting in the 1920’s -because I believe the progressives want it to be repeated and if you don’t think sterilizing many youth wouldn’t be the same-then you need to read up on what transgender surgery and puberty blockers does to a young person. If you look at that trangender biological female that shot and killed those beautiful 9 year olds at that Christian school in Knoxville Tenn a few years back. A 29 year old biological female who was hopped up on testosterone and who spouted hatred for Christian’s in the manifesto then you can see where this hatred is coming from-the ultra left.
    If you look at what the progressives and planned parenthood are doing to destroy our children’s futures then everyone should agree that pp and every progressive law maker needs to acquire a conscience or leave the state.

  5. The scam is that PP provides healthcare. Yet, that purpose is a mask to provide a laundry service for the DNC – hence, clearly a political action committee rather than a neutral healthcare provider. We should also note they have no competition or an equally funded alternative choice for low-income people. My tax dollars should not be used to fund a PAC or a monopolized entity that is bias, coersive, and corrupted. Let them hit up the Rockefellers, Billy Goat Gates, or Sorcerer Soros to fund their PAC and ritualistic witchcraft.

  6. Thank you, Mary, for so excellently spelling out the unmitigated evil of PP and why not one penny of taxpayer money should ever be—or ever have been—given to them.

    When the very origins and foundations of an organization are evil, it only stands to reason that everything that is ever built upon that foundation will be evil, lies, and deceit. These are the currency of hell.

    https://youtu.be/T74liCcYOZ8

    To end on an encouraging note: God has already shut down several PP facilities in Vermont. Let us continue to pray that He dry up the funding for all of them and permanently shutter the doors of every last PP facility in VT and the USA. God is hearing and answering the prayers of His people and of those whose blood at the hands of this satanic organization cries out from the ground. He will continue to as we pray to Him in faith for the light of the love and truth of Jesus Christ to confound and overcome the darkness here.

    “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.”
    ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬

    “The Lord replies, ‘I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for Me to do.’ …Therefore, Lord, we know You will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation, even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.”
    ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭12‬:‭5‬, ‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬

    “Don’t you know that God, the true Judge, will grant justice to all His chosen ones who cry out to Him night and day? He will pour out His Spirit upon them. He will not delay to answer you and give you what you ask for. God will give swift justice to those who don’t give up. So be ever praying, ever expecting, in the same way as the widow. Even so, when the Son of Man comes back, will He find this kind of undying faith on earth?””
    ‭‭Luke‬ ‭18‬:‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭TPT‬‬

  7. I am a retired substitute school RN. I still get alerts from Vt health on medications or outbreaks of diseases. I got an alert today that there is a recall/shortage on bacillin L-A, a Pfizer medication. This medication is used to treat pregnant women and infants born with syphilis. It’s important to note that planned parenthood went into schools and gave out a bunch of free stuff while they were pushing bills that then became laws in the Vt legislature that allowed them to distribute condoms to sixth, seventh and eighth graders beside high schoolers. Parents are probably still unaware this is going on and that Democrats are being subsidized by planned parenthood. Planned parenthood got laws passed that allows planned parenthood to treat sexually transmitted diseases as in syphilis and chlamydia at planned parenthood without parental consent!!! They are encouraging experimentation and promiscuity so perhaps your daughter will get pregnant and need an abortion or your daughter or son will get an std or want a gender reassignment procedure without a parents consent because planned parenthood doesn’t really care about your child, they only see dollar signs making them more $$$. They will never deal with that young persons plummeting damaged psyche because then they will have to admit that they contributed to it.

    • Even more important than the money is the dark, evil goal to destroy imagers of God: innocent unborn babies, adolescents, and young adults who have been denied access to knowledge of Him in schools, libraries, and other public institutions. Praying for people, especially our youth, to turn to Him, repent, and come to understand God’s love for them. His human family is so valuable to Him that He sent His only Son to die for our sins. This world promises YOLO. God promises eternal life with Him in His Kingdom when we accept His Son Jesus Christ as our savior.

  8. And last I heard the progressives wanted to pass a bill allowing 12 year olds to get the HPV vaccine without parental consent. Now there are a lot of side effects to this vaccine so it’s imperative that parents be aware of them all and to be on the lookout for any reactions—that’s why parents need to be involved!!!When the progressives had a supermajority they almost got it passed but it was deemed unethical or unpopular so it didn’t pass. I don’t know what happened to it, does anyone know??

  9. Bravo, Mary! We are luck to have you as the director of Vermont Right to Life.