The Senate, with the help of Vice President J.D. Vance’s tiebreaking vote, voted on Tuesday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, effectively defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood for one year.
The House version of President Donald Trump’s legislative package promised that no Medicaid dollars “shall be used to make payments to a prohibited entity for items and services furnished during [a] 10-year period.” The Senate version, however, cut that provision down to prohibit only twelve months of taxpayer-funded abortion.
In a last-ditch effort to protect Planned Parenthood’s flow of federal funding, Democrats tried to add a pro-abortion amendment to the BBB. The motion failed in a 49-51 vote on Monday evening.
During the same 2023-2024 period Planned Parenthood performed a record number of abortions — more than 402,000 — the abortion business collected nearly $800 million in taxpayer funds.
Planned Parenthood’s steady stream of taxpayer funding has no doubt contributed to its history of ending unborn lives (or botching its 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 allegedly conducting procedures that have resulted in mothers’ deaths.
Terminating tax dollars from abortion businesses not only saves lives but opens the door for community health centers, which receive far less federal funding and already outnumber Planned Parenthoods 15 to 1, to continue outperforming abortionists.
Several pro-life organizations celebrated the upper chamber’s passage of the Big Beautiful Bill as a key step to depriving the biggest abortion beneficiary of taxpayer money.
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser specifically called the move “a crucial victory in the fight against abortion, America’s leading cause of death, and an industry that endangers women and girls.”
Those same organizations, however, are urging the lower chamber to “finish the job” and keep the federal funding to abortion giants like Planned Parenthood quenched for a decade.
“We urge the House to finish the work immediately so President Trump can sign it into law. SBA Pro-Life America will proudly score this vote which is the highest priority pro-life vote in decades,” Dannenfelser added.
As Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson recently confirmed, up to half of Planned Parenthood facilities in pro-abortion states could close if the taxpayer funding ceases for a decade.
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.
