The North Carolina state Senate is taking steps following a Supreme Court decision allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood to ensure no taxpayer dollars are flowing to the abortion giant.
The state Senate passed a bill Monday to stop state funding from going to Planned Parenthood through Medicaid.
All Democrats in the chamber voted against HB 192, Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency, while Republicans supported the pro-life measure.
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The bill would prohibit Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid.
According to bill sponsor Sen. Amy Galey, R-Alamance, there was $830,000 still available through Medicaid for which Planned Parenthood could get access to. She and other lawmakers want to ensure the funds go to legitimate health care centers not an abortion business.
Galey stressed that this is not a cut to Medicaid and is only a change in who is allowed to be a provider of certain services.
“These would be family-planning services that can include reproductive, preventive health, contraceptive services, screening, and testing for sexually transmitted infections,” she said. “It is not a cut. It just changes who is allowed to contract with the state to provide these services, which I believe, as a former county commissioner, all of these services are also available through your county health department.”
“My personal opinion is that Planned Parenthood is not a good-faith provider of health care services to women, and I think that they should not be receiving state funds in any way, shape, or form,” Galey said. “That’s my personal opinion.”
On the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Galey said Planned Parenthood has been shown to be complicit in countless abuses and focuses more on politics than health care. She said Planned Parenthood South Atlantic transferred almost $5 million in 2023 to its political action committee for political donations to candidates in 2024.
“Looking at the second- and third-quarter reports in North Carolina, about $100,000 was transferred to people who were running for this body, the North Carolina General Assembly, as well as other state-level candidates,” Galey said.
Some 42 Planned Parenthood abortion centers have closed thanks in part to defunding.
