House Republicans Putting Together Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood

Congressional Republicans are putting together legislation that would defund America’s biggest abortion business. According to a new Fox News report, House Republicans are discussing a measure that would defund Big Abortion, including both the Planned Parenthood abortion chain as well as other companies that kill babies for profit. The defunding is part of a package […]

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Congressional Republicans are putting together legislation that would defund America’s biggest abortion business.

According to a new Fox News report, House Republicans are discussing a measure that would defund Big Abortion, including both the Planned Parenthood abortion chain as well as other companies that kill babies for profit.

The defunding is part of a package of legislation the House is considering to cut at least $1.5 trillion in spending and it follows on the heels of House Speaker Mike Johnson saying he wants to use reconciliation to defund Planned Parenthood.

“We are working on a lot of different options, but that’s been discussed,” Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital when asked directly about Planned Parenthood. “Yeah, it’s been discussed.”

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Reconciliation is a budgetary process that allows both the House and Senate to pass a major piece of financial legislation with just a majority vote – normal in the House but helpful in the Senate because it’s not subject to the filibuster Senate Democrats would typically use to block pro-life legislation.

Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in taxpayer funding fiscal year and carried out 392,712 abortions in its 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to its most recent annual report.

The Speaker of the House says he’s fully on board with taking away taxpayer dollars from America’s biggest abortion chain, but the House would need the votes to do it. With a very narrow Republican majority and no pro-life Democrats that’s easier said than done.

Still, Johnson said he would like to defund the abortion giant and is working to build the votes to do it. Likely, the only way that can be accomplished is via a reconciliation bill — which both the House and Senate can pass on a majority vote margin.

“I would like to. That’s for sure,” Johnson said in an interview on Fox News’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” when asked whether he plans to axe the two organizations.

“Yeah,” Johnson said, when MacCallum clarified whether he wants to cut spending to the organizations, adding, however, that, “We got to build consensus to have the votes to do that.”

“Now, some of this will be done by executive order out of the White House. He has a broad authority to do a lot of that,” Johnson said, referring to President-elect Trump. “But where Congress is involved, that’s where it takes the hard work of legislating and getting everybody on the same page.”

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey on June 24, 2022, Planned Parenthood aborted five percent more unborn children during the 2022-2023 fiscal year than the previous year and brought in more than $2.9 billion in assets.

In the recently released 2022-2023 fiscal year annual report titled, “Above & Beyond,” Planned Parenthood states it performed 392,715 abortions. That means Planned Parenthood killed 1,075 babies in abortions every single day even though the abortion giant claims its main focus is merely “women’s health care.” In other words, Planned Parenthood kills 44 babies every hour.

Despite the fact that the High Court ruled there is no right to an abortion on a federal level, Planned Parenthood continues to make profit from abortions its top priority.

“Above & Beyond” also shows that 34 percent of Planned Parenthood’s revenue, $699.3 million, comes from “government health services reimbursements and grants,” or taxpayer dollars.

Taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood surged $65.9 million after Joe Biden took office in 2021, even as inflation and a slow economic recovery from the artificial COVID shutdowns eroded Americans’ real income.