Planned Parenthood regains federal funding after yearlong pause

Planned Parenthood has regained access to federal funding after a yearlong pause. As of July 5, Planned Parenthood clinics can bill Medicaid for reimbursement for contraception, STD screenings, and other non-abortion services.

The Trump administration defunded Planned Parenthood via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but the defunding was scheduled for one year rather than the permanent or 10-year defunding hoped for by activists.

Advocates for unborn children criticized the administration for failing to maintain the defunding of the abortion giant.

“As we celebrated the 250th anniversary of our nation founded on the right to life, funding resumed to the Big Abortion businesses that profit from stripping that right away from a record number of Americans and increasing our top cause of death year after year,” Kelsey Pritchard, communications director at SBA Pro-Life America, told EWTN News.

“It is the default expectation of the pro-life movement for Congress to renew the defunding of Planned Parenthood and abortion businesses, and the politically smart thing for Republicans who must energize the base to win in November,” Pritchard said.

Pritchard noted that her organization is investing “$160 million in 2026 and 2028 for Republican pro-life candidates.”

“[N]ow Republicans must do their part in doing everything they can to once again defund Big Abortion,” Pritchard said.

Dr. Christina Francis, president of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs, said she “sees Congress’ failure to keep our tax dollars from subsidizing the abortion mill of Planned Parenthood as a blow to the essential liberties of preborn children.”

“Adding insult to injury, their funding stream resumed on Americaʼs 250th birthday,” Francis told EWTN News. “Guided by our commitment to our profession and our patients, AAPLOG will continue to oppose the funding of Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry, and the medical institutions that have traded sound medical practice for abortion ideology that is antithetical to the true purpose of medicine — health and healing.”

Live Action President Lila Rose criticized the refunding in a statement shared with EWTN News.

“On America’s 250th birthday, Congress had the chance to honor the founding promise that every human being has a God-given right to life,” Rose said. “Instead, by failing to extend the defunding of Planned Parenthood, lawmakers have allowed taxpayer dollars to flow back to the largest abortion chain in the nation.”

“This is a moral failure and an urgent betrayal of preborn children, women, and American taxpayers,” Rose said.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, urged advocates for unborn children to continue fighting abortion.

“Planned Parenthood is once again eligible to receive taxpayer dollars after Congress failed to keep them out of our healthcare spending,” she said in a post on X. “That isnʼt the end of the story. Itʼs a reminder that the fight for life isnʼt won in a single vote. Itʼs won by refusing to quit. It’s time for us to get back to work.”

Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

Source: https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/planned-parenthood-regains-federal-funding-after-yearlong-pause