Pro-Life advocates have cause to celebrate: Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in the United States and the world, has officially been stripped of Medicaid reimbursements under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
This victory has been years in the making. Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year, making history as the first federal budget to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. Lawmakers boldly declared that taxpayer dollars should never prop up the abortion industry.
Yet, almost immediately, a federal judge in Boston, appointed by former President Barack Obama, blocked that part of the law from taking effect. That ruling gave Planned Parenthood temporary cover to continue distributing millions of taxpayer dollars while its lawsuit went through the courts.
This week, that shield crumbled. The First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously lifted the rulings, allowing the defunding measure to take immediate effect. Remarkably, all three judges on the panel were appointed by President Joe Biden, showing that even jurists handpicked by an abortion-friendly administration could not justify Planned Parenthood’s baseless claims.
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The Big Beautiful Bill halts Medicaid reimbursements for abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, for one year. The abortion giant itself admitted that nearly 200 of its 600 locations could face closure—proof of just how reliant it is on taxpayer dollars.
This defunding is urgently needed. Planned Parenthood committed 402,200 abortions in a single year—nearly half of the more than one million abortions nationally, according to its 2024 annual report. Meanwhile, its legitimate health services continue to collapse: cancer screenings dropped by 71% in the last decade, prenatal care fell by 80%, and contraceptive services declined by nearly 40%.
Planned Parenthood hides behind the false claim that abortion is “only 3%” of its services, but this number is grossly misleading. Abortion is the core of its business model, not an afterthought.
Taxpayers deserve better. Instead of funding abortion-on-demand, resources should go to community health centers and pregnancy resource centers, which outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities 15 to 1 and provide real, life-affirming care.
Texas Right to Life applauds this ruling and remains committed to ensuring this abortion giant is permanently defunded. Every dollar redirected from Planned Parenthood is a victory for mothers, fathers, and their precious babies.
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