More than 150 state and national pro-life coalitions signed a letter sent to Congress Wednesday morning urging lawmakers to cut Medicaid funding to “Big Abortion,” primarily Planned Parenthood, through budget reconciliation.
Budget reconciliation is a special legislative process used in Congress to make changes to spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit.
While the coalition acknowledged the Trump administration’s efforts to stop former President Joe Biden’s “abortion agenda” and cut government waste through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the group said a “Republican trifecta presents the opportunity to bolster these efforts” even further.
After President Donald Trump’s electoral victory and his subsequent pardoning of pro-life individuals charged under the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ), pro-life conservatives are now redirecting their efforts within the movement to cut off abortion providers’ access to widespread federal funding.
“Republican reconciliation bills in 2015 and 2017 included a provision to stop giving hard-earned American tax dollars to Big Abortion,” the groups wrote. “In 2025 it is even more urgent to cut funding for this industry that endangers women and unborn children and spends tens of millions of dollars to promote woke policies and candidates. Planned Parenthood and groups like it were among those first identified for cost saving measures by Elon Musk who singled them out in the Wall Street Journal last November.”
Trump has “already rolled back” funding for abortion groups abroad through his executive order reinforcing the Hyde Amendment, a law that prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for abortions…
Planned Parenthood KILLED 390,000 innocent unborn Americans in 2023. Meanwhile, they take $2 MILLION of your tax dollars. Every. Single. Day. This madness has to stop. Contact your U.S. Senators and Representative now (takes 30 seconds) and tell them to Defund Big Abortion NOW!
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