Taxpayers Will be Forced to Fund Planned Parenthood Tomorrow

American taxpayers will once again be forced to fund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, starting tomorrow as a one-year ban on Medicaid reimbursements expires.

The one-year prohibition, included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, blocked federal Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood and similar organizations that kill babies in abortions.

Rather than help women with legit medical care and receive the funding, Planned Parenthood chose to keep killing unborn babies.

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The provision expires July 4, 2026.

Medicaid is already barred from paying for most abortions under the Hyde Amendment, but the defunding effort targeted the organization itself to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting businesses that kill babies. And from its own figures, Planned Parenthood killed 434,500 babies last year.

Conservatives argued patients could obtain the same non-abortion services elsewhere at legit medical centers and doctors’ offices that don’t also kill babies.

During the year-long ban, Planned Parenthood reported that 30 of its clinics closed. Visits from Medicaid patients dropped by 25 percent compared to the prior year.

Noah Brandt, vice president of communications and government relations at Live Action, urged lawmakers to stand firm: “Defund Planned Parenthood and defend that defunding unapologetically.”

He described allowing the funding to resume as “political malpractice” and stated that “for pro-life voters, defunding Planned Parenthood is not the ceiling. It is the floor.”

Brandt also noted that Planned Parenthood’s political arm has invested millions campaigning against House Republicans who support defunding.

Some Republican lawmakers apparently think this is a difficult political question. It is not.

The whispered argument in Washington, D.C., is familiar: It is the summer of an election year. Do we really want ads saying, “Congressman X defunded Planned Parenthood”? Won’t Democrats accuse Republicans of taking away women’s health care? Won’t Planned Parenthood spend millions telling voters Republicans are extremists?

Of course they will. That is the point. The attack ads are coming either way.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is publicly campaigning against House Republicans over defunding. Its own press room announced a new investment of nearly $2 million to keep House Republicans from “defunding” Planned Parenthood, after a prior $1.5 million campaign on the same issue. Its 2026 endorsements page says “the stakes could not be higher,” attacking President Donald Trump and Republicans, warning that anti-abortion lawmakers want to make the Medicaid defund permanent.

Republicans face a choice. They can be attacked for defunding Planned Parenthood after actually defunding Planned Parenthood. Or they can be attacked for defunding Planned Parenthood after quietly letting the money flow again.

Pro-life leaders have criticized the impending resumption of funding and called for stronger action.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a July 1 statement: “Defunding Big Abortion is now the default expectation of the pro-life movement. When they return to D.C., Republicans must do all they can through reconciliation to once again block taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood and abortion businesses.”

Eleven states used their own funds force taxpayers to fund Planned Parenthood. But the Supreme Court has ruled that states may exclude abortion companies from their Medicaid programs. Thirteen states have already moved to block or limit Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.

Pro-Life groups have pressed Republican leaders, including Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the House Freedom Caucus, to extend or make permanent the restrictions through additional reconciliation legislation before the end of the year. Senate Republicans have expressed less enthusiasm for immediate further action.

Unless Congress acts before tomorrow, federal taxpayer dollars will resume flowing to Planned Parenthood.