When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law by President Trump last year, it took away hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars from the nation’s largest and most infamous abortion provider. That’s because the bill cut off Medicaid funding to health care providers that performs abortions, and Planned Parenthood is the largest in the country.
That portion of the Republican bill fulfilled a demand from pro-life Americans that dates back decades, but the new law only imposes that requirement for one year.
Planned Parenthood attorneys filed suit in July to continue the flow of public money, but a federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration in December.
Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, told American Family News she predicts Planned Parenthood will launch a public relations campaign to beg the public for donations.
"We're going to start hearing stories about poor women who 'could not get an abortion and had problems,’" she predicted, referring to the poor who depend on Medicaid.
With its lawsuit dropped but the one-year deadline coming, Planned Parenthood will likely lobby Congress to support its Medicaid funding when the issue comes back, Tobias said.
“I have no doubt,” Tobias said, “they're also going to amp up their efforts in the elections this fall, trying to get more pro-abortion members of Congress elected, so the tables can be turned and they can once again start getting tax dollars."
Steven Ertelt, editor of Life News, made similar comments to AFN.
"Pro-life Americans have to get ready to fight this battle once again," he urged, "not only to defund Planned Parenthood this year but to permanently defund it."
