Planned Parenthood Is So Desperate For Cash, They're Doing Botox Now

One of the most notable pro-life victories post-Dobbs was the 2025 defunding of Planned Parenthood. Just recently, pro-life advocates were stunned to learn that Biden’s Title X grant awards to Planned Parenthood were extended through the next year, a move that's effectively rolled back this hard-earned concession.

Not only does this move flout popular opinion, and contradict the pro-life policy goals that made defunding possible in the first place, but it also props up, finances, and legitimizes an organization whose motivating belief system relies on profit over healthcare. 

Nowhere is this more evident than in Planned Parenthood’s foray into aesthetic services to compensate for the loss of taxpayer funding. 

Just recently, a Mar Monte affiliate of Planned Parenthood began offering customers Botox. Want plumper lips and tighter skin with your abortion? They’ve got you covered. 

The move screams financial desperation, and Planned Parenthood spokespeople stated publicly that the decision was prompted by monetary gain. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s chief medical operating officer, Dr. Laura Dalton, additionally told The New York Times that: “Planned Parenthood stands for: you decide what is best for you and what you need to feel good, and to feel like your body is what you want it to be."

Planned Parenthood’s model is not rooted in medical necessity, but rather in monetizing what patients think will make them "feel good.”

Dr. Dalton’s words reveal that Planned Parenthood’s model is not rooted in medical necessity, but rather in monetizing what patients think will make them "feel good.” This mentality generated the organization almost $2 billion in revenue, including $670 million in government funding, from 2021 to June 2022 alone. 

When the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, this income was threatened. States across America moved quickly to enact commonsense pro-life policy that undercut Planned Parenthood’s profits, while Congressional success defunding the organization led to widespread clinic closures. Even The New York Times reported last year that Planned Parenthood was “in crisis” nationwide, with reports of tired staff, botched procedures, and unsanitary clinics. 

And last July, the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunded Planned Parenthood for the rest of the year. The recent decision to extend the Title X funding chips away at this victory by propping up an organization that has shown it will do anything to turn a profit, even endanger women and children. 

Planned Parenthood’s response to clinic failures and bad publicity was not to increase the quality and care provided nationwide. Instead, the organization focused on what it consistently prioritizes: services that will generate a buck. 

This is why Planned Parenthoods across America began offering vasectomies for men, Botox for women, and are even contemplating GLP-1 weight loss medication to attract new customers. Planned Parenthood’s gender-affirming care services allegedly expanded almost 50% the year that Roe was overturned. 

Planned Parenthood’s desperation to generate a profit has led Senator Marsha Blackburn to question the organization’s tax-exempt status, noting that a move into aesthetic treatments like Botox shows a “significant shift from the organization’s claim to be a charitable health care organization providing public health services.”

Until recently, Planned Parenthood framed its services as medically necessary for women and children’s health. Through slogans like “my body my choice,” they justified removing safety regulations on dangerous chemical abortion drugs. Conversely, they defended irreversible gender interventions for minors as “lifesaving.” 

Their current foray into cosmetic procedures, however, exposed the contradiction between their claims to medical necessity and the economic pressure motivating their services. Dr. Dalton even admitted to The New York Times that the Mar Monte affiliate’s Botox journey was motivated by “uncertain financial sustainability as well as feedback from its patients.” 

Apparently, it’s working. A Sacramento Planned Parenthood clinic that offers Botox appointments is already fully booked and training additional staff to meet the rising need. Exploiting female insecurity, as Planned Parenthood well knows, is a profitable enterprise. And yet taxpayer dollars continue to flow to the organization for another year. While changes to the Title X program have been proposed for the future, they don't address the damage occurring now from Planned Parenthood’s economically driven model. Or the matter of whether taxpayers should be subsidizing Botox with their hard-earned dollars. 

Exploiting female insecurity, as Planned Parenthood well knows, is a profitable enterprise.

The organization’s unrelenting defense of abortion on demand has resulted in the deaths of over 60 million unborn children, and emotional scars for their mothers—over 60% of whom say they would have chosen life if they had more resources or support. Pushing dangerous chemical abortion drugs on women, and removing guardrails on them, has not only caused women to suffer serious adverse effects alone, but it has also resulted in increased abortion coercion and abuse for women. Despite this, Planned Parenthood continues to pocket the profits for abortion and abortion drugs while ignoring the consequences. 

Similarly, after entrenching themselves in the “gender-interventions are necessary for kids” camp, Planned Parenthood was embarrassed by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Medical Association’s recent guidance against gender affirming care for minors. Rather than admitting that children who can’t drive, vote, or drink alcohol should not be making permanent decisions about their bodies—which many regret in adulthood—Planned Parenthood continues defending these interventions because of the lucrative financial payback.

Unlike abortion or gender interventions for minors, Botox does not raise serious ethical or political concerns. Yet offering Botox as a means of making patients’ bodies what they “want them to be” shows that this drift into aesthetic procedures is merely a continuation of Planned Parenthood’s longstanding ethos: profit over patients. 

Ashley McGuire is a senior fellow at the Catholic Association, author of Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female, and co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show, “Conversations with Consequences.”