Republicans Can’t Squander This Opportunity to Defund Planned Parenthood

This week, members of Congress are getting a visit from hundreds of pro-life constituents from across the country, coming to Capitol Hill to urge them to defund Big Abortion. It’s been talked about for years and even included in Republican reconciliation bills in the past. Now is the time to get it done, and the way to do it is in the upcoming budget reconciliation bill. Reconciliation is a complicated process, but the key is, these bills can pass the Senate with a simple majority rather than the usual 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. With a complete GOP majority in Washington, this is a huge opportunity we cannot squander.

Americans overwhelmingly support cutting back out-of-control federal spending, with 70% of voters saying government expenditures are rife with fraud and waste. The same percentage of Independents now disapprove of the Democratic Party, the most unpopular it’s been in years.

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Any anti-fraud-and-waste efforts should absolutely zero out funding to the corrupt abortion industry – especially the hundreds of millions to “progressive groups like Planned Parenthood” flagged by Elon Musk.

But wait, someone might object, isn’t Planned Parenthood a nonpartisan healthcare provider? If only their slick propaganda resembled the truth. In reality, their priorities are abortion, profits and politics.

Planned Parenthood has done more than any other group to make abortion the leading cause of death in America. They ended the lives of nearly 393,000 unborn children in a single year, according to their last annual report, or about 40% of abortions in the U.S. – a number that could fill Times Square to capacity ten times. 97% of the time a pregnant woman walks into Planned Parenthood, she’s sold an abortion rather than helped to keep her child or make an adoption plan. Many Planned Parenthood employees even straight-up admit their center doesn’t do prenatal care or offer ultrasounds apart from abortions: “It’s called Planned Parenthood, I know it’s kind of deceiving.”

While Planned Parenthood provides fewer and fewer cancer screenings, abortions and income keep setting records. Some of their billions in assets comes from wealthy, elite funders. Some has come from the barbaric harvest and sale of baby body parts for “research.” More than a third of their income is from – guess who? – taxpayers. In 2023, their taxpayer funding amounted to almost $700 million or $2 million a day, with a significant chunk coming from Medicaid.

And you didn’t even get a “Thanks.”

A bombshell report in The New York Times, of all outlets, reveals the stark horrors and incompetence Americans are getting for their money: botched abortions that are lethal for babies and put women’s lives at risk. IUDs implanted in women who are already pregnant. Sewage leaking into a recovery room, causing people to vomit. Now they’re also accused of delaying emergency responders in the death of an 18-year-old with late-term abortion complications.

LifeNews Note: Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.