Why Pro-Lifers Are Against Planned Parenthood

The 3% Myth

Planned Parenthood supporters downplay abortion compared to the legitimate health care services it provides. They claim that abortion is only 3% of what the organization does. Even The Washington Post called that statistic misleading.

History

In 1921, Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later merged into Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She aimed to reduce births among poor and minority families with birth control, sterilization, and abortion as a way to “a cleaner race,” she said. 

Sanger stated, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it” and that the “most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” 

She opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and worked with other racist eugenicists, such as Francis Galton (cousin to Charles Darwin), Madison Grant, and Clarence Gamble. Sanger even accepted an invitation to speak to the KKK. She sought to create a program that would eradicate groups she called “human weeds” from society and promote reproduction of those she deemed to have superior genetics.

Sanger wrote in The Pivot of Civilization:

“The lack of balance between the birth-rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly the greatest present menace to the civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. The example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit, and therefore less fertile, parents of the educated and well-to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem to-day is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

Even Planned Parenthood itself agrees that Sanger was a racist eugenicist.

However, the organization continues Sanger’s deadly legacy to this day.

Horror Stories

Things have gotten so bad for Planned Parenthood that even The New York Times published a hit piece in February 2025, exposing patient dissatisfaction, misdiagnoses, poor follow-up care, and multiple malpractice lawsuits.

The report included negligent and dangerous medical practices, such as:

• Documented botched abortion procedures leading to live births and severe complications.
• A Nebraska clinic failed to detect a four-month pregnancy before inserting an IUD, resulting in an emergency stillbirth.
• Reports of expired medications, unsanitary conditions, and broken medical equipment.
• A former nurse described clinics as “operating like a conveyor belt,” with women rushed through unsafe procedures.

Former patients spoke about their regrets about aborting their children at Planned Parenthood. Staff left body parts in the uterus when they aborted Dana’s triplets. Cree Erwin-Sheppard died after a botched abortion at Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

In 2015, Planned Parenthood was exposed selling the organs of aborted babies for profit in a series of undercover videos. A top executive at the organization haggled over tissue prices, saying, “I want a Lamborghini.”