After a yearlong pause following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), Planned Parenthood has regained access to federal funds. As of July 5, their clinics can bill Medicaid for reimbursement for contraception, STD screenings, and other non-abortion services. Even though pro-life activists had hoped for a permanent, or at least 10-year, defunding of the abortion giant, the OBBBA instead provided for only a one-year suspension of federal funding.
In an interview with EWTN News, Kelsey Pritchard, communications director at SBA Pro-Life America, expressed her disappointment: “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.”
Live Action President Lila Rose also criticized the refunding in a statement: “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. 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.”
More information can be found at EWTN News here.