Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging a provision in the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill that bars the organization from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. Planned Parenthood alleges the funding cut is an unconstitutional effort to punish it for providing and advocating for abortion access. The funding cut applies to the organization for just one year.
The lawsuit, filed in the liberal US District Court in Washington, DC, claims the law’s defund provision unlawfully strips Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide, despite the fact that the organization does not use federal funds for abortion services, in compliance with long-standing federal law. The funds from American taxpayers allow Planned Parenthood to operate its centers and use other monies to provide abortion services.
“The prohibition specifically targets Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its member health care providers in order to punish them for lawful activity, namely advocating for and providing legal abortion access wholly outside the Medicaid program and without using any federal funds,” the organization wrote in the complaint.
Meanwhile, a federal judge has stopped Congress from defunding the abortion provider. Judge Indira Talwani of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a temporary restraining order that was requested by Planned Parenthood on Monday.
The DC District lawsuit contends that by excluding Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program, the federal government is effectively denying low-income patients their choice of health care provider, a right they say I s protected under federal Medicaid law. However, between 25-33% of physicians in the United States do not accept new Medicaid patients, thus are refusing Medicaid funds.
For over four decades, federal law known as the Hyde Amendment has prohibited the use of taxpayer funds for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
Planned Parenthood argues that the new provision goes beyond this restriction, weaponizing the federal budget process to silence a specific provider and its political stance on abortion rights.
“The Defund Provision is a naked attempt to leverage the government’s spending power to attack and penalize Planned Parenthood and impermissibly single it out for unfavorable treatment,” the organization said.
The One Big Beautiful Bill, legislation championed by former President Donald Trump and passed by Congress earlier this year, contains a range of conservative policy priorities, including immigration enforcement, tax reform, and defunding organizations linked to abortion services. Its Medicaid provision was among the most controversial, drawing sharp criticism from health care advocates and reproductive rights groups. Sen. Lisa Murkowski fought to keep the funding in place for Planned Parenthood, but ultimately voted for the bill even after the funding was stripped.
Just when We The People are freed from immoral obligations to fund murder of preborn children, the molochites go to the lawyers to solicit satanic assistance in their eternal quest to commit human sacrifice.
It’s been illegal to fund them since 1976, our bureaucratic class has just been doing it anyway because they hate us.
You might think people who murder their children can pay for it with their own money without asking others for help. And perhaps the argument might be that the federal dollars are theirs. Then the argument becomes, should Americans fund murder? And then the argument becomes, ending a child’s life is not murder. You might claim a child is not human until they pass the goal line? Then the argument becomes who has the authority to determine what is life and what is not life? Is it mob rule, aka democracy? Or perhaps we evolve and use reasoning to make our laws? It seems like a bad idea to allow 51 people out of 100 to decide who lives and dies. At the minimum, to be fair to all. Don’t ask me to pay for it. What if 51 people out of 100 said you had to take responsibility for your actions and circumstances? That would make you very angry. Now you know how I feel.
Planned Parenthood is a criminal organization,
Intent on destroying lives in the making, at government expense. The Catholic Church despises this kind of homicide. As Catholics, Frankie and I would lobby to refund Planned Parenthood.
The reality is that there are an overwhelming majority that are sick and tired of OUR money being stolen to support these idiotic people and their goals.