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Since the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal throughout the United States, abortion megastar Planned Parenthood has raked in a cool $8 billion in taxpayer dollars funneled through federal, state and local governments.
Eight. BILLION.
According to records provided by the American Life League (ALL), a pro-life advocacy group that has tracked Planned Parenthood’s comings and goings for decades, Planned Parenthood has collected the following amounts each year since 1973:
Year | Total Gov. Funding |
1973 | $26,342,520 |
1974 | $30,445,300 |
1975 | ? |
1976 | $48,000,000 |
1977 | $50,800,000 |
1978 | $58,500,000 |
1979 | $69,700,000 |
1980 | $71,200,000 |
1981 | $85,200,000 |
1982 | $94,300,000 |
1983 | $95,000,000 |
1984 | $91,000,000 |
1985 | $95,200,000 |
1986 | $93,900,000 |
1987 | $97,700,000 |
1988 | $106,500,000 |
1989 | $118,600,000 |
1990 | $126,500,000 |
1991 | $124,000,000 |
1992 | $145,000,000 |
1993 | $78,900,000 |
1994 | $158,800,000 |
1995 | $163,100,000 |
1996 | $171,900,000 |
1997 | $177,500,000 |
1998 | $165,000,000 |
1999 | $176,500,000 |
2000 | $187,300,000 |
2001 | $202,700,000 |
2002 | $240,900,000 |
2003 | $254,400,000 |
2004 | $265,200,000 |
2005 | $272,700,000 |
2006 | $305,300,000 |
2007 | $336,700,000 |
2008 | $349,600,000 |
2009 | $363,200,000 |
2010 | $487,400,000 |
2011 | $538,500,000 |
2012 | $542,400,000 |
2013 | $540,600,000 |
2014 | $528,400,000 |
Total | $8,134,887,820 |
Note: The 1973 figure is significantly lower than surrounding years due to Planned Parenthood's switch from a calendar fiscal year to a July-June system.
Altogether, this equals $8,134,887,820 -- or a little over $8.1 billion. If you assume Planned Parenthood received about $36,000 in 1975, which is the average of what they got in 1974 and 1976, the total figure is actually closer to $8.2 billion.
Here's a different perspective. Since 1973, Planned Parenthood has received roughly the same amount of money as the Gross Domestic Product of the entirety of St. Cloud, MN, in 2013. In fact, $8.2 billion is more than the GDP of a lot of U.S. cities, which you can check out here.
The Media Research Center filled in a few gaps in ALL’s records by tracking down Planned Parenthood’s annual reports for several missing years. In our research, the only funding figure we weren’t able to locate was from 1975. We asked Planned Parenthood for the missing record -- by email, phone and in person -- but they never responded.
Planned Parenthood’s handy annual reports also show the taxpayer-subsidized organization has performed more than 6.6 million surgical abortions since 1973.