Earlier this week, the Senate passed a late-night reconciliation package excluding a provision to extend federal defunding for abortion providers, despite an attempt led by Sen. Hawley (R-MO) to amend the bill.
Today, Americans United for Life (AUL), joined by the Family Policy Alliance, delivered a letter to Speaker Johnson and House GOP leaders. The letter makes clear that extending the federal defunding of abortion providers from Medicaid reimbursements must be included in the current reconciliation package and not delayed to later, uncertain legislation.
This follows a first letter sent by AUL CEO John Mize to Speaker Johnson and Majority Leader Thune earlier this month, which outlined AUL’s priorities for Reconciliation 2.0.
Bradley N. Kehr, Government Affairs Director for AUL, stated: “Extending defunding in the current reconciliation bill is the only assured path to preventing abortion providers from regaining access to federal taxpayer dollars before the original one-year freeze expires this coming July. Delayed pursuit of defunding in a rumored third reconciliation this fall undermines the historic advances to liberate the American tax dollar from the abortion industry under the One Big Beautiful Bill.”
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Sarah Zagorski, Senior Director of Public Relations and Communications for AUL, emphasized: “Lucrative abortion enterprises have harmed and deceived American women and girls for far too long, resourced by federal tax dollars, and put profit above patient. Congressional leadership set the standard of defunding under the first reconciliation and must now follow through by extending federal defunding immediately. If extended long enough, the abortion industry will crumble and no longer be able to harm women and preborn children.”
