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Planned Parenthood Defunding Backfires As New Law Could Increase the Abortion Rate by 67%

• Editors' Picks, Featured News, Feminism
• Tue, Apr 25th, 2017

As Republicans passed a law to allow defunding of Planned Parenthood on a state basis, a new study from Guttmacher found that publicly funded contraceptive services prevented 628,600 abortions in 2015.