One Big Beautiful Chance To Stop Forced Taxpayer Funding Of Big Abortion

Over the last year, leading up to the election, we heard nonstop fearmongering from politicians, celebrities and activists alike insisting that women’s freedoms would be stripped away if Kamala Harris was not elected. Today, these same groups are now the loudest ones demanding that our tax dollars fund Planned Parenthood, a billion-dollar abortion giant. But with their nearly $800 million in government funding annually, over 400,000 abortions a year and their non-abortion services plummeting, it is not my responsibility or yours to keep the abortion industry led by Planned Parenthood on life support. 

A Historic Opportunity to Defund the Abortion Industry

And thankfully, this is where the Trump Administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill comes in, going after waste, fraud and abuse. This bill Congress is working to pass would prevent multiple big abortion businesses from getting taxpayer money. For decades, American taxpayers have funded abortion centers. But thanks to President Trump and the leaders in Congress that could finally end in the next few weeks. Congress has a real chance—right now—to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses, which the Senate is currently considering. After decades of forced taxpayer funding, with this chance to defund, we could be looking at the next historic victory for life, and yes, actual freedom.

For decades, American taxpayers have funded abortion centers.

For years, we’ve been told that Planned Parenthood and abortion centers around this country are beacons of women’s health and that’s why they need our money and support. But the facts, the testimonies, and even their own annual reports say otherwise. 

Taxpayer-funded Tragedies

In February, Lexi Arguello went to Planned Parenthood seeking a late-term abortion. During the surgical procedure, Lexi reportedly began experiencing an amniotic fluid embolism—a life-threatening complication which would have warranted an immediate call to emergency services. According to Lexi’s grandparents, instead of calling for an ambulance immediately, the center admitted they waited too long to call for help and specifically requested no sirens on the ride to the hospital. Eighteen-year-old Lexi died shortly after. Nakara went to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. What she got was a botched abortion. Weeks after, she was still heavily bleeding and suffering from very painful cramps. She took another pregnancy test, and it showed she was still pregnant. She contacted the center, and they reassured her they had seen all the baby parts and pregnancy tissue removed during the abortion. But they were wrong. When Nakara went to the ER, medical staff saw a baby still in her womb. Weeks later, she delivered a baby who quickly passed away. 

Too Broken to Defend 

These aren’t excerpts from horror movies, they’re true stories of women harmed, just this year, by Planned Parenthood. And sadly, their stories aren’t rare. They’re just two of many testimonials, one of which the New York Times recently highlighted showing how Planned Parenthood fails women. You read that right. Even the New York Times recently published a grisly piece exposing how Planned Parenthood harms women and girls. Their abuses have become too big to ignore with moldy equipment, botched abortions…even faulty STI testing. According to the exposé, a center in Nebraska failed to upload client’s STI test results for months, wrongly leading them to think the results were negative. Women walked away thinking they were healthy, only to find out months later they’d been unknowingly living with—and in some cases spreading—untreated sexually transmitted diseases. Is this who we want to define women’s health? This is the reality we are in. Pro-abortion activists blindly defend a system so broken it can’t even properly deliver the services it purports to provide. But they swing the sloganeering all in the name of “reproductive freedom.” So why are we funding them? Your guess is as good as mine. 

Women’s Health? Their Data Says Otherwise

They are a terrible investment for taxpayers. And they don’t prioritize women’s health like they claim. But don’t just take my word for it, look at their own latest report. Their latest annual report quickly clues us into what they prioritize. The top three growth areas for them were: abortions, gender transitions, and political spending. From 2023-2024, their abortions rose to over 400,000 a year. That’s equivalent to 10x the amount of people Times Square holds. All while their non-abortion services plummeted (over 50% decrease on cancer screenings, breast exams, pap smears and 38% drop in birth control). All while their abortions, trans treatments and political spending skyrocketed. The report also showed that as their private donations went down, their taxpayer dollars went up! Their tax dollars increased to $800 million a year, or put another way, well over $2 million a day. One question stands out after reviewing this report, why are we content with supporting an organization that openly, according to their own data, funds woke, partisan politics? 

Follow the Money: How Planned Parenthood Prioritizes Politics, Not Patients

Last election cycle, Planned Parenthood spent a record-breaking $69.5 million. They worked consistently to elect Democrats like Kamala Harris who endorse abortion at any point in pregnancy. And they continue to fund Democrat candidates. These same endorsed Democrats argue that funding the organization through Medicaid is essential because otherwise women will lose all their healthcare. But that is misleading on so many levels. They want us to believe that without abortion centers like Planned Parenthood, women would be devoid of all healthcare. This is categorically false. Defunding would not cut benefits at all. It simply cuts abortion centers out of lucrative taxpayer funding streams. Medicaid dollars follow Medicaid patients. Those dollars would be far better spent on real health care, not underwriting massive abortion businesses. Even though they won’t highlight it, the truth is, our Medicaid dollars travel with us, so we can obtain actual quality care at actual clinics. And it’s already happening. Women are choosing to go to community and rural health centers that provide comprehensive care without abortion and are also much more accessible. These health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities 15:1. And since we’re on the subject of Medicaid, there are well-documented allegations that Planned Parenthood over-bills Medicaid—that they double dip to get paid more than once for the same services. Just look at the facts, they already paid out millions to settle Medicaid fraud charges.

The Hyde Amendment Loophole

Democrats also argue that we should all be okay with funding the abortion industry because technically, federal law (the Hyde Amendment) prevents taxpayer money for abortion on demand. And while that’s technically true, you better believe abortion centers found a way around that a long time ago. As former Planned Parenthood director Mayra Rodriguez explained, “these funds support the abortion infrastructure—from covering utilities, to staffing and even patient intake for abortion-related operations.” You can’t pour water into only one part of a bucket. Former Planned Parenthood employees admit there’s no special bank account marked “Abortions Only.” And finally, you don’t have to be against abortions to recognize that all Americans should not be forced to financially float these failing businesses anyway. So, what does all this mean? It means that Congress has a real chance—right now—to finally defund Big Abortion led by Planned Parenthood, through President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” 

Life and Freedom at Stake — A Once-in-a-Generation Moment

For decades, women like Lexi and Nakara have walked into these centers looking for help—and left with trauma, injury or even death. All while taxpayers are forced to foot the bill. “My body, my choice” has now come to mean your money, no choice. For over 50 years, Americans have been told they must fund an abortion empire in the name of health, even as that empire puts women at risk, guts actual care and pours millions into partisan politics. But now, for the first time in a generation, Congress has a chance to change that. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is a historic chance to stand with women, with life and with real freedom.