Deliberate Parenthood is Falling Aside, Extra Facilities Might Shut Subsequent Yr

Planned Parenthood has long been one of the most powerful organizations in the abortion movement, often lavished with political favor and even more political finance. In 2025, however, that favor has clearly begun to shift. The once powerful abortion giant cannot seem to regain its political footing nor stop the rushing river of complaints and accusations coming from its own employees.

Month by month, Americans have witnessed the reality of our nation’s biggest abortion peddler: Planned Parenthood is a criminal organization that has spent decades exploiting taxpayers for its own financial and political gain, and using women as a shield whenever caught for wrongdoing.

“More than ever, Planned Parenthood has proven throughout 2025 that its higher-ups feel entitled to state and federal monies, despite having mismanaged that money in devastating ways,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Its main priority is Big Abortion, not women, and Americans are seeing the true face of this abortion giant. As a result, Planned Parenthood’s influence isn’t just waning – it’s plummeting.”

Staff Speaking Out

In February, just weeks after former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards died from brain cancer, the New York Times published a bombshell exposé on the inner workings of a clearly crumbling Planned Parenthood.

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The NYT – a typically pro-abortion journal – cited everything from lawsuits to internal documents, and claimed to have interviewed “more than 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants and medical staff members.” Through its own employees, the NYT uncovered massive misuse of funds, terrible working conditions, untrained staff, and maimed patients. Not just at one affiliate, but across the whole organization.

Three months later, another bombshell story came to light. An investigative article from Flatwater Free Press featured Sabrina Stratman, a former nurse at Planned Parenthood who opened up about being pressured to break protocol and assist with surgical abortions. When she expressed concerns to management, Stratman said they went unheard and that the clinic manager “used [Stratman’s] passion for abortion access as leverage.”

At the time, other current and former Planned Parenthood employees complained to the Flatwater about insufficient training, problems “beyond burnout,” and a dismissive attitude among executives whenever regular staff have voiced concerns – all similar to the complaints from other employees at other affiliates detailed in the previous NYT article.

Regions Imploding

One of the biggest and most symbolic closures of 2025 was the infamous Manhattan Health Center located at 26 Bleecker Street in New York City. Previously known as the “Margaret Sanger Center,” this abortion facility was the flagship of Planned Parenthood’s entire empire.

It was also part of one of the organization’s biggest affiliates, Planned Parenthood Greater New York, which has been rife with internal conflicts for years. It was even featured in the NYT article for financial failures and squabbles over salaries among chief executives. In years previous, employees also publicly accused PPGNY of ongoing systemic racism in the workplace and even outed the affiliate for “financial mismanagement” by then CEO Laura McQuade.

Four other abortion facilities in the PPGNY region also closed between 2024 and 2025, a total of five facilities in just two years – and in one of America’s most radically pro-abortion states.

“Planned Parenthood loves to blame Trump and inflation for all the blows it’s taken in 2025,” says Newman, “but the people to blame are right in their own backyard – executives making six figure salaries who have spent years abusing employees, patients, and taxpayer funds until the damage was too great to hide.”

Effective October 1, another Planned Parenthood affiliate was forced to shut down: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which operated in the abortion-free states of Texas and Louisiana. Preceding its total shutdown, PPGC was first forced to shutter its own flagship location and administrative base – the Prevention Park location in Houston. Prevention Park was a megacenter, built to be one of the largest abortion facilities in the nation.

As with PPGNY, rumblings that started years previous came to a head in 2025. The Prevention Park location was one of the clinics exposed by the Center for Medical Progress videos released in 2015, just five years after the megacenter opened to conduct first and second-trimester abortions.

Footage taken by CMP inside Prevention Park with Melissa Farrell, then Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, provided some of the most horrifying evidence of Planned Parenthood’s involvement with the illegal harvest of aborted babies’ bodies.

By 2021, Texas had used that evidence to successfully strip Planned Parenthood of state Medicaid funding. By 2022, Roe was overturned, and a near-total ban on abortion went into effect across the state. With Medicaid funds and abortion profits all dried up, at least one affiliate encompassing two states no longer exists in 2025, and three more Planned Parenthood locations closed (Prevention Park included), plus the closure of PPGC’s Virtual Center.

PPGNY and PPGC are two of the most dramatic examples, but 2025 revealed many other affiliates in tumultuous waters:

• Employees of Planned Parenthood Southeast recently pitted themselves against higher-ups, alleging a “hostile corporate takeover” by a new CEO who has shown “conservative” leanings.

• In May, employees of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast threatened to go on strike over unfair labor practices, including “understaffing, high turnover, and patient care concerns.”

• Also in May, Planned Parenthood North Central States announced the closure of 8 clinics – the same region where Sabrina Stratman quit after being forced to break protocol, and where other employees voiced concerns about insufficient training.

Historic Defunding, Federal and State

In the midst of Planned Parenthood reaping all the mismanagement and abuse it has already sown, President Donald Trump worked with Congress in the summer of 2025 to federally defund Planned Parenthood for the first time in history – though only for one year.

Planned Parenthood immediately filed suit, hoping to get an injunction against the defunding while litigation was ongoing. That attempt ultimately failed. Another abortion chain also filed suit – Maine Family Planning – and it was also denied an injunction against defunding.

In the wake of this historic removal of Medicaid, and since Operation Rescue’s 2024 Survey, 64 Planned Parenthood locations have closed. Thirty-six of those closures were abortion facilities, and 28 were referral locations. In California, there was also a service called Melody Health – essentially a primary health clinic co-located inside seven abortion clinics. Melody Health was discontinued, but the abortion centers it was located in remain open. In addition, three of Planned Parenthood’s virtual clinics have also shut down.

On the state level, Planned Parenthood is also losing Medicaid funding, and for much longer than just one year.

In June, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Medina that the abortion affiliate did not have standing to challenge South Carolina’s decision to exclude Planned Parenthood from state Medicaid funding.

This decision paves the way for other states to defund Planned Parenthood. On November 6, for example, the governor of Nebraska signed an executive order that excludes abortion providers from receiving state funds.

In March, President Trump also withheld Title X funds from nine Planned Parenthood affiliates pending an investigation for potential violations of executive orders issued in the months previous.

“As usual, Planned Parenthood has played the victim in all this,” says Newman, “but our team reads the autopsies, the police reports, the 911 records, and the lawsuits documenting the women and preborn children victimized by Planned Parenthood every day. Big Abortion does not deserve our hard-earned tax dollars. Planned Parenthood is not entitled to government money and, in fact, has been found guilty of Medicaid fraud numerous times. No one is ‘picking on’ Planned Parenthood. Americans are just tired of the abortion cartel demanding that we fund their back-alley abortion businesses and line their blood-stained pockets.”

One incredibly important case awaiting a decision from an appellate court is United States v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a false claims suit that could hold Planned Parenthood accountable for continuing to receive Medicaid reimbursements while litigation was ongoing regarding the removal of Medicaid funding from the abortion giant in Texas and Louisiana. If Planned Parenthood loses, it could face $1.8 billion in damages – a blow that has the potential to bankrupt the organization.

The Planned Parenthood-Free State

In the fallout of allegations from employees, bombshell exposés, collapsing affiliates, and historic defunding, Planned Parenthood is currently unable to offer abortions in 14 states, or 28% of the United States.

Of those 14, four states have zero Planned Parenthood locations in operation. They are Planned Parenthood-free, including Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Wyoming.

Four additional states only have one Planned Parenthood location remaining: Alabama, Idaho, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.

“No one needs Planned Parenthood,” adds Newman, “that’s the big secret Planned Parenthood has desperately tried to keep. In reality, Planned Parenthood needs us – our hard-earned tax money, our unborn children, mothers to exploit and families to destroy. But Americans are catching on – the gig is up. As we’ve been saying all year: Planned Parenthood has lost its shine.”

LifeNews Note: This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.