Last Fourth of July, conservatives finally cut off federal Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While this was an answer to the pro-life movement’s decadeslong prayers of defunding Planned Parenthood, there is now an expiring funding ban set to lapse this Independence Day. Without further congressional action, Congress is set to reinstate millions in taxpayer dollars for the abortion industry on America’s 250th birthday.
For more than four decades, Americans, regardless of their beliefs on abortion, have agreed that taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund something so divisive as abortion. That principle has enjoyed broad, bipartisan support and has been reaffirmed repeatedly by Congress through the Hyde Amendment. But even despite this long-standing bipartisan consensus, Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, has received hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars through various federal programs in the past and will continue to receive funding in the future if the congressional ban is not reimposed.
