America COMMENTARY


Time to Defund Planned Parenthood


There can be no more excuses for forcing such a terrible investment on taxpayers.


T BY MARJORIE DANNENFELSER


he only certainties in this world, a famous quip says, are death and taxes. No group in America weds


the two like Planned Parenthood. The indisputable head of the


abortion industry, they boast of more than 400,000 abortions a year — at least 10 times the capacity of Times Square. And they do it while raking in nearly 40% of their $2 billion in income from taxpayers. The One Big Beautiful Bill is


the best opportunity to stop forced taxpayer funding of Big Abortion since 2017, when a similar effort fell short by one vote. Yet as the bill worked its way


through Congress, all the Democrats’ old lies reemerged. “Women will lose critical healthcare.” “Planned Parenthood does more than abortion.” For the longest time, it seemed


certain that Planned Parenthood was “too big to fail” and politically untouchable. At over a century old, they’ve outlived scandal after scandal: Multimillion-dollar payouts to settle Medicaid fraud charges. Dozens of employee lawsuits alleging racial discrimination. Their eugenics-driven founder, Margaret Sanger, getting cast under the bus during 2020’s summer of unrest. Even — horrific as it is — the revelation of their selling freshly harvested organs of aborted


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babies for thousands of dollars apiece in incentives. The abortion giant not only


survived, but the subsidies taxpayers were forced to pay increased to more than $700 million, including about half a billion from Medicaid. They’ve survived in part by grossly exaggerating their importance as a healthcare provider of last resort for poor women — for instance, allowing the public to think they provide mammograms (they never have). They cling to this fiction as a


shield, even while their own reports show massive declines in everything from contraception to Pap smears. Except abortions, of course. Those are at record level.


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ow, a new analysis by the Charlotte Lozier Institute


estimates community health centers offering women’s healthcare outnumber Planned Parenthood locations (in-person and virtual) 15 to one nationwide. These include 5,500 federally


qualified health centers, which provide comprehensive healthcare services to low-income and underserved populations, and 3,300 rural health clinics serving Medicaid and Medicare patients in areas particularly vulnerable to care shortages. That’s on top of thousands of pregnancy resource centers that provide free baby supplies, education, and assistance. Women have real choices. Community health centers are vastly more available than Planned Parenthood, and more women choose them already. When Medicaid patients choose these centers, Medicaid dollars stay with them.


At last, scandal-plagued Planned Parenthood is poised to collapse under its many detriments. The New York Times, no pro-


life outlet, acknowledged Planned Parenthood botched procedures and subjected patients to inhumane treatment. In one case, sewage was allowed to leak into a recovery room for days. NPR highlighted “dysfunction”


between rank-and-file employees and management, with one former employee stating she was repeatedly expected to break protocol to assist surgical abortions despite being the sole nurse on duty. Moreover, billions of dollars


in donations go not to fix their appalling conditions, but to fund the organization’s constant litigation and political activism. OpenSecrets found Planned Parenthood spends more to lobby the federal government than any group on either side of the abortion issue. Enter a new administration


focused on rooting out waste and fraud. In March, the Trump administration halted millions in Title X funds to Planned Parenthood, citing a review of their DEI policies. In any case, millions of Americans


strongly reject abortion as “family planning.” Groups that treat it as such aren’t entitled to tax dollars. The freeze is already having an


effect as Planned Parenthood centers shutter across the country. The pro-life movement is united


to defund Big Abortion, as is the GOP, with leaders like House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Defunding Big Abortion is a win-


win for fiscal hawks and patients. With 70% of voters concerned about wasteful spending, there can be no more excuses for forcing such a terrible investment on taxpayers.


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


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