An upcoming Supreme Court case will determine whether states can decline to fund the pro-abortion organization. It should be obvious that they can — and must.

B y many accounts, Planned Parenthood is an incurably sick beast whose time is nearing its end. Indeed, Planned Parenthood needs to be put out of its misery to stop the pain and suffering it has caused so many people over its 100-year existence.

The first step in this process is to eliminate the government’s funding of Planned Parenthood. Americans don’t want their tax dollars propping up an organization with a racist history and a legacy of human carnage that continues to the present day.

Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, a self-professed eugenicist. She expressly wanted to reduce the “ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” At the time, she claimed that birth control had been “accepted by the most clear thinking and far seeing of the Eugenists themselves as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.”

Sanger even spoke to members of the Ku Klux Klan about her efforts in eugenics. And she enlisted the help of black ministers because, as she wrote to a colleague, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

In 2021, Planned Parenthood confessed to the New York Times that the organization would “no longer make excuses or apologize for Margaret Sanger’s actions” — after more than 100 years of doing just that. Planned Parenthood finally admitted the “difficult truth” that “Margaret Sanger’s racist alliances and belief in eugenics have caused irreparable damage to the health and lives of Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, and many others.” The organization conceded that Sanger’s eugenics ideology was “rooted in white supremacy.”

Tragically, Sanger and her fellow eugenicists succeeded. The abortion industry has performed abortions on black women at a rate of four times that of white women. And, in 2021, 41.5 percent of all abortions in the United States were performed on black women — despite their representing only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, more than 20 million black babies have been aborted.

Despite her depraved beliefs and birth-control activism, even Sanger apparently thought that abortion and infanticide were “horrors” and “a disgrace to civilization.” But those who followed her at Planned Parenthood did not share that view.

Planned Parenthood has terminated millions of babies since Roe. And the organization’s share of the national abortion business has grown to 40 percent during this time. Never one to turn away a profit, Planned Parenthood advertises that it performs abortions up to 24 weeks’ gestation (and sometimes later) and charges women well over $3,000 to do so. For the uninitiated, an unborn baby at 24 weeks is more than 12 inches long and can survive outside the womb.

But the harm that Planned Parenthood inflicts does not end with unborn babies. Their mothers suffer, too. As the New York Times recently chronicled, there are “scores of allegations” that “accuse Planned Parenthood of poor care.” These cases highlight a pattern of shocking negligence in which women suffer from botched abortions, improperly inserted birth control devices, incorrect test results for sexually transmitted infections, and other reckless care. Planned Parenthood’s facilities were operating like a “conveyor belt” where women received the wrong medications and were taken to the wrong room to be prepped for the wrong procedure, among other horrors.

The article also reported that many Planned Parenthood facilities “operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff” to the point of lacking adequate training for even blood draws. Many of the facilities are in disrepair. In one facility, “sewage from a backed-up toilet seeped into the abortion recovery room for two days,” causing women to vomit from the stench.

This is not due to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates lacking funds. In 2022–2023, Planned Parenthood reported nearly $2.1 billion in income and over $2.5 billion in net assets. And according to the Times article, “Over the last five years, the national office has distributed more than $899 million to affiliates to help them deliver care, but none of it went directly to medical services.” Instead, this slush fund went to pro-abortion lobbying and activism — not health care.

On April 2, in a case in which Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent South Carolina officials, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether states should be free to fund real health care and exclude harmful organizations like Planned Parenthood from public funding. This pivotal case will ultimately determine whether the American people’s hard-earned money should be used to prop up a historically racist, prolifically murderous, and horrifically negligent organization.

Planned Parenthood has harmed enough people to last for eternity, and the time has come for it to be put down once and for all.