House GOP Preps Takedown of Nation’s Biggest Abortion Giant
Planned Parenthood may soon lose its largest source of funding—the taxpayers.
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill could be the stone that takes down the nation’s biggest abortion giant: Planned Parenthood.
Provisions embedded within the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s portion of the bill—released on May 11—would bar abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid funding for the next 10 years.
The Hyde Amendment already prohibits federal funding of abortion, except in cases involving rape, incest, or a threat to the mother’s life. But Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, offers other services that qualify for Medicaid reimbursement, including STD and pregnancy testing—a rather glaring loophole.
The organization claims to be the nation’s second-largest provider of hormone therapy, which the Energy and Commerce panel’s bill classifies as a gender transition procedure. Such treatments would also be disqualified for Medicaid reimbursement by the bill’s provisions.
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A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
If passed, the new restrictions could deal a fatal blow to Planned Parenthood, which just last year raked in a staggering $792 million in government grants and reimbursements—nearly 40 percent of the organization’s total revenue, according to its latest annual report.
“The stakes right now are life and death,” Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins told her organization’s grassroots supporters during a virtual event with pro-life leaders on May 12.
“We know that there are at least a million children every year who are being violently killed by abortion, and this powerful lobby that kills children comes for GOP legislators with the same ferocity that they come for the preborn because of our taxpayer support.”
Some of the more moderate Republicans in Congress have reportedly voiced their opposition to defunding Planned Parenthood behind closed doors. With the GOP’s slim majorities in both the House and Senate, it would take only a handful of defectors to tank efforts to strip the organization of its Medicaid funding and, by extension, its ability to perform abortions.
“There’s not this big separation of funds,” noted Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director and the founder of And Then There Were None.
Johnson pointed out that Planned Parenthood does not distinguish between Medicaid reimbursements and revenue from abortions when depositing those funds into the bank. It all goes into one bank account.
And Medicaid, she added, is “an unending well of cash” for Medicaid providers like Planned Parenthood.
“They can literally bill just about anything to Medicaid and Medicaid will pay it. … As long as the ICD-10 coding is correct and as long as the name that they bill matches the name in that patient’s chart, they will pay it.”
The point of Students for Life's virtual event was to urge pro-life voters to call their congressional representatives and hold their feet to the fire—even some who have been longtime pro-life advocates.
“Let me tell you, some of the people that we think we can count on, sometimes just the fear gets into them—and we know where fear comes from,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
“So, just please do communicate. Even if you think it’s a lost cause, it’s not. Even if you think it’s in the bank, it’s not.”
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