Planned Parenthood just can’t wait until July 4, 2026. That’s the day taxpayers will have to start subsidizing the abortion industry all over again.
How did this happen? Answer: The defunding of abortion providers has an expiration date. The reason? Weak negotiating by Senate Republicans.
The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, includes several policies aimed at benefiting families through tax relief, credits, and new savings opportunities. The provisions focus primarily on reducing tax burdens, supporting child-rearing costs, and encouraging long-term savings for children.
However, it was the defunding of abortion providers, including abortion giant Planned Parenthood, that captured pro-lifers’ hearts.
The largest abortion provider in the country, Planned Parenthood, is an organization founded on the principles of eugenics and is responsible for 35%-40% of all abortions in the United States. In its most recent available annual report, Planned Parenthood affiliates reported performing 402,230 abortions (an increase from 392,715 in the prior report).
In Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 most recent report (covering roughly fiscal year 2023-2024), affiliates reported $792.2 million in total government health services reimbursements and grants. This includes both federal and state sources. A 2023 GAO report found Planned Parenthood affiliates received roughly $1.78 billion in tax dollars over a span of three years. The total collective federal funding that has gone to abortion providers since 1970 is in the $10-$15 billion range.
I can think of nothing more egregious for our nation’s semiquincentennial than to reinstate this funding to the largest provider of abortions in the world. Life is a gift, one that many Americans have fought and died for over the last 250 years.
Thomas Jefferson, who authored the Declaration of Independence, said it well: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
The president and Congress turned off this gravy train of death once before; they need to do it again.
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