Big Abortion Brought in $4.3 Billion in 2023 Alone

It pays to kill.

Pro-abortion activists, lobbyists, and other political groups reported over $4.3 billion in revenue in 2023, according to analysis by Restoration News. That's up dramatically from the $3.6 billion the industry raked in in 2020 and nearly twice its 2019 revenues just four years prior.

That's enough to pay for more than 6.6 million abortions at $650, the average cost of a procedural abortion in 2023. For women who used mifepristone—the abortion pill Biden's FDA greenlit to mail to homes in 2023—it's the equivalent to 7.7 million abortions in a single year at $563 a pop, or the entire population of Washington state.

In practical terms, $4.3 billion is a bottomless well of money for the legion of professional lawyers, activists, agitators, and lobbyists driving America toward an unlimited third-trimester right to abortion, far exceeding the limitations set by Roe v. Wade 52 years ago.

It's also placing more women in harm's way. A recent bombshell report by the Foundation for the Restoration of America revealed that mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in at-home chemical abortions, are 22 times more dangerous than the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) admits.

Nearly one in ten women who take these pills will suffer sepsis, hemorrhage, or even death, among other serious adverse effects. For the rest, 85% will experience nausea, fever, chills, vomiting, headaches, or diarrhea.

Abortion pill use has exploded in recent years, representing 63% of all abortions in 2023, driven in part by the Left's lie that the chemical abortion drug is "safer than Tylenol."

(RELATED: Defunding USAID: Trump’s Biggest Gift to Pro-Lifers After Dobbs)

Paging Dr. Evil

The Planned Parenthood empire, which includes international and local affiliates, makes up $1.5 billion of the total for 2023. The nation's largest abortion provider that's heavily relied on taxpayer funding to sustain itself is now one of its top pushers of mifepristone, despite clear federal laws prohibiting public funding for abortions.

That may change under President Trump, whose "big, beautiful" budget bill would bar Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from receiving Medicaid funding over the next decade.

Other organizations on the list are less infamous.

Family Health International (FH 360) raked in a stunning $836 million in 2023—much of it from USAID, the international aid agency shuttered by President Trump after Elon Musk's DOGE exposed its corruption.

FH 360 has pledged tens of millions of dollars to the UN's global depopulation campaign, Family Planning 2030, which would legalize abortion in foreign nations that restrict or ban the practice.

EMILY's List ($62 million) funds pro-abortion Democrat women running for office, including the supposedly moderate Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger this November.

Marie Stopes International ($117 million) is Britain's equivalent of Planned Parenthood, named for Britain's answer to Margaret Sanger… a woman who bizarrely wrote love poetry to Adolf Hitler. The group has been caught performing illegal abortions in Africa and Asia on girls as young as 16.

Similarly, the Clinton Health Access Initiative pushes abortion overseas as part of the notoriously corrupt Clinton Foundation. It took in $350 million in 2023.

Engenderhealth ($37 million) was originally named the Sterilization League of New Jersey, founded by eugenics activist Marian Stephenson Olden to remove the mentally "unfit" from the gene pool.

One of the least-known abortion advocates is Pathfinder International ($118 million), which has reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from USAID to promote abortion abroad. Worth noting is Pathfinder’s close connection to Planned Parenthood: Its founder, Charles James Gamble, was a Margaret Sanger ally and major funder of population control and eugenics policies in their heyday.

The list goes on. Most of the money to these organizations comes from America's multi-billion-dollar foundations, the result of philanthropy's century-long collapse from biblical charity into cynical politics. Today's leftists use the Bible's call to love thy neighbor as an excuse to abort him.

With a tax write-off, to boot.

Data available here

(READ MORE: Warren Buffett Walks Away From Wall Street — But Not From Butchering Unborn Babies) 

Hayden Ludwig is Founder and Managing Editor of Restoration News, launched in 2023, and Executive Director for Research at Restoration of America. He specializes in election integrity and dark money, authoring the first investigations into the 2020 election "Zuck Bucks" scandal and unearthing the world's largest dark money network run by Arabella Advisors. He publishes regularly at RealClearPolitics, American Greatness, and the American Conservative.

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