The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night to pass a hefty spending bill that will significantly cut the flow of federal dollars to the organizations responsible for ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies each year.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is far from the perfect fraud and waste solution some claim it to be. It still adds $3.1 trillion to the national debt and includes provisions that explicitly protect aspects of taxpayer-funded healthcare. The legislation does, however, ensure none of those Medicaid dollars “shall be used to make payments to a prohibited entity for items and services furnished during a 10-year period.”
While the bill does not explicitly name Planned Parenthood as a “prohibited entity,” it does state that any nonprofit organization that “is primarily engaged in family planning services, reproductive health, and related medical care,” “provides for abortions,” and received more than $1 million in taxpayer funding in 2024, is off limits.
The abortion giant’s latest annual report shows it raked in nearly $800 million in taxpayer funds from 2023 to 2024. During that same period, Planned Parenthood also performed a record number of abortions — more than 402,000.
Planned Parenthood’s steady stream of taxpayer funding has no doubt contributed to its history of ending unborn lives (or botching their attempts to do so), allegedly flouting federal law and wasting tax dollars, dispensing castrating drugs to confused minors, reportedly trafficking baby body parts, enabling abusers, allegedly performing unlicensed procedures and violating health and safety standards, opposing free speech, and conducting procedures that have resulted in mothers’ deaths.
If the reconciliation package succeeds in passing the Senate and earning President Donald Trump’s signature, however, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson confirmed in a statement that it will force up to half of Planned Parenthood facilities in pro-abortion states to close. Planned Parenthoods are already outnumbered 15 to one by community health centers, which receive far less federal funding, and outperformed by another 2,600 pro-life pregnancy centers.
Pro-life organizations such as SBA Pro-Life America celebrated the passage of the bill as a “crucial win in the fight against America’s #1 cause of death – abortion – and against waste and corruption.”
“We now urge the Senate to do its part, and both chambers to come together and get it across the finish line. More than 400,000 babies a year, their mothers, and countless American taxpayers are depending on you,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser added in a statement.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
