Since the 70s, Planned Parenthood has billed itself as an organization devoted to the “comprehensive care” of women’s health, one whose services tens of millions of women rely upon not just for IUDs and abortions, but for everything from prenatal care to breast cancer screenings. Based on these claims, the federal government has for decades showered hundreds of millions of dollars on the abortion giant every year.
But 2025 is shaping up to be much different. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is poised to slash Planned Parenthood’s income—to the delight of pro-life advocates. Staff are being laid off and clinics are closing all across the country. And Planned Parenthood’s true purpose—the elimination of as many unborn babies as possible—is being laid bare for all the world to see.
Up to now, Planned Parenthood has managed to retain hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding each year—over $790 million last year—by claiming that it offers essential non-abortion services.
Except it doesn’t. Not really.
Despite boasting of offering “comprehensive care”, Planned Parenthood has long been a one trick pony where abortion is concerned. Its own reports reveal that almost 97% of its “pregnancy resolution services” resulted in abortions. Non-abortion referrals and prenatal services were minuscule by comparison. The numbers don’t lie. For every abortion referral the organization makes, it performs a whopping 187 abortions. Cancer screenings have fallen by over 50% since 2013 and, somewhat surprisingly, even contraceptive services have dropped by nearly 40%.
Planned Parenthood’s claim to provide “comprehensive care” was nothing more than ruse to get around the Hyde Amendment, which bans direct taxpayer funding of abortions. But with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, those days appear to be over. The BBB closes funding gaps and cuts off Medicaid reimbursements to organizations like Planned Parenthood that perform abortions. The blow to Planned Parenthood’s federal funding is severe. The organization could lose up to $500 million, or about 25% of its annual revenue.
Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood went judge shopping to try and get its funding back. They found a friend in one of the most pro-abortion judges in the country, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who was happy to issue a preliminary injunction halting the funding cuts. Her legal reasoning was patent nonsense, and the injunction will surely be overturned on appeal.
As HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bluntly stated in a legal memo responding to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit: “Planned Parenthood has no right to taxpayer money, and this Court should not invent such a right.”
But every day that Talwani’s order remains in place, money continues to flow into PP’s coffers, babies continue to die, and women continue to be harmed.
Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire continues to crumble despite this ruling, however. Over the past few weeks, more than two dozen clinics have already shut down or announced they are going to close. The closures include Houston’s massive abortion center, which was the largest in the Western Hemisphere, and one of Planned Parenthood’s oldest, located in Manhattan and formerly run by Margaret Sanger’s grandson.
The abortion giant is closing clinics in both Blue States, like California and Minnesota, as well as Red States like Iowa, Michigan, Utah, Texas, and Ohio.
All of this has sent Planned Parenthood into hysterics. CEO Alexis McGill Johnson screeched in a recent blog post that “Republicans in Congress and President Trump just decided you don’t deserve healthcare.” She went on to insist that the funding cuts mean that women will be left without access to vital services like birth control and cancer screenings.
This is doubly false. First, as we already pointed out, PP abortuaries provide little in the way of general healthcare. Second, there are thousands upon thousands of community health centers in the U.S. that do offer real, comprehensive care for women and their unborn babies.
According to a new report by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, there are more than 8,800 such centers in the U.S., outnumbering Planned Parenthood clinics by more than 15 to 1. These federally qualified centers and rural health clinics do not do abortions. But they do everything else, from prenatal care and primary care to cancer screenings and mental health services, and more.
This is not a healthcare crisis. It’s a long-overdue course correction. Americans should never have been forced to bankroll an abortion giant whose business model is to abort as many unborn children as possible.
Every abortion clinic that closes saves lives, and saving lives is, after all, the purpose of authentic healthcare–which Planned Parenthood has never provided to the women who made the mistake of entering into one of their death traps.
