Former President Joe Biden took home a Planned Parenthood service award at a Delaware fundraising gala as the group reported hundreds of thousands of abortions.

On Thursday evening, the 83-year-old former president accepted the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award at Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s Chocolate and Champagne Gala. Former first lady Jill Biden presented the honor, and Biden addressed the crowd with praise for the late abortion activist the award commemorates.

Breitbart News reported the appearance and the remarks Biden delivered about Sloan, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, and the executive orders he signed while in office.

Biden tied his own career to Sloan and framed his White House response to Dobbs as something she would have demanded.

He told attendees, “This is an incredible honor,” and said he would not have become a U.S. senator or president “if it weren’t for Sonny Sloan.”

Biden casts Dobbs as a personal blow to his late friend

Biden described how Sloan would have reacted to the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. He said she “would have felt devastated,” along with “anger and astonishment.”

He added that Sloan “wasn’t afraid” and would not have spent “a single moment wringing her hands.”

Then he claimed her example shaped his own conduct in office:

Biden said:

“Following the Dobbs decision, as president, I tried to do what I knew Sonny would have done. We took action. We signed executive orders to protect access to reproductive health care, including emergency medical care.”

He closed the appeal with a broader political warning aimed at the room: “You have no idea how powerful women are in this country. You are about to find out.”

The speech put a former president on stage celebrating an organization whose core business is abortion, weeks and months after the court returned the issue to the states and to voters.

Planned Parenthood’s latest figures show massive scale and taxpayer support

The same reporting tied the award night to Planned Parenthood’s most recent report on its own activity. That report indicated 434,450 abortions in 2023 and 2024.

It also showed the organization secured $832 million in government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements, a $39.8 million increase from the previous report.

Those numbers matter because Biden’s appearance was not a private reunion. It was a fundraising gala for a group that performs abortions at industrial volume while collecting large sums from public programs.

Biden’s post-presidency calendar has kept the family in public view for other reasons as well, including his planned presidential memoir timed around the political calendar.

Between the 1973 Roe decision and the 2022 Dobbs decision, reporting cited in the coverage put the estimated toll at 63 million abortions. Dobbs ended the nationwide judicial regime that produced that total. Biden answered the ruling with executive orders and, now, with an award night hosted by Planned Parenthood.

Jill Biden hands him the award named for an abortion activist

Jill Biden’s role was direct. She presented the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award to her husband in front of the gala audience.

Sloan was described as an abortion activist and a close Biden friend. Biden treated her memory as both personal inspiration and political instruction, telling the room he tried to act as she would have acted after Dobbs.

Family health and legal drama have also followed the Bidens into the headlines, including Hunter Biden’s public comments on his father’s cancer fight.

None of that changes the basic transaction on stage: a former president and former first lady lending their names, presence, and praise to Planned Parenthood of Delaware at a chocolate-and-champagne fundraiser.

Executive orders, then applause from the abortion industry

Biden’s own words tied the award to the policy fight that followed Dobbs. He said he signed executive orders to protect access to “reproductive health care, including emergency medical care.”

He did not present those orders as a narrow emergency measure. He presented them as the response Sonny Sloan would have wanted, delivered to a Planned Parenthood audience that raises money on the strength of that cause.

Other Biden family political stories have continued in parallel, from Hunter Biden’s remarks on his father’s pardon to the long tail of post-White House branding.

Voters who opposed Roe’s national abortion regime got a different message from the court in 2022. Biden’s message in Delaware was that the fight continues through executive power, industry partnerships, and public celebration of the activists who built the old order.

Record abortions, rising public money, and a presidential seal of approval

Planned Parenthood’s report figures land hardest next to the optics of the night. Hundreds of thousands of abortions across two years. Hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. A $39.8 million jump in that public support.

Biden did not treat those facts as a liability. He treated the organization as a fitting host and Sloan as a moral guide.

Recent Biden-world coverage has also included the memoir rollout’s awkward timing for Democrats, another reminder that the former president still shapes the party’s public distractions.

The Delaware gala folded neatly into that pattern: a high-profile Biden appearance, a friendly institutional audience, and a policy fight the former president still wants to own.

Taxpayers underwrite a large share of Planned Parenthood’s budget. The group’s own reported abortion totals show what that system sustains. Biden’s award night showed which side of the argument he intends to keep blessing.

When a former president accepts honors from the nation’s largest abortion provider, he is not merely greeting old friends, he is telling the country which industry still deserves applause and public money.