Anti-abortion leaders furious after Planned Parenthood defunding expires

Conservatives rage over re-funding of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood's beleaguered network of clinics will regain access to hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding this weekend — the fallout of Republicans' failure to pass an extension of the one-year defunding provision they approved last year. Starting July 5, clinics around the country can once again bill the federal program for reimbursement after providing non-abortion services, like birth control and screenings for sexually-transmitted infections, to low-income patients. Though other funding threats loom, it's a lifeline for the struggling organization, which has closed nearly 30 health centers nationwide that collectively served more than 40,000 patients since the defunding provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect in July 2025.

Planned Parenthood regains federal funding after yearlong pause

Advocates for unborn children criticized the administration for failing to maintain the defunding of the abortion giant. [...]

Planned Parenthood survived ‘defunding’ — just in time for elections

A year ago, abortion opponents were celebrating one of their biggest victories under the Trump administration: Planned Parenthood, the movement’s arch-villain, had been temporarily kicked out of Medicaid, one of the nation’s largest health insurance programs. Planned Parenthood was calling the policy an existential threat — warning that hundreds of health centers could shut down, []

Planned Parenthood’s “Safe” Abortion Pill Claims Set to Go to Trial in Florida

A Florida judge has allowed Attorney General James Uthmeier’s false-advertising case to proceed, putting Planned Parenthood’s abortion-pill safety claims under scrutiny and giving Americans a clearer look at what chemical abortion does to unborn children and their mothers. For years, Planned Parenthood has cloaked its abortion advocacy in the language of “women’s healthcare” while advancing []

Regret begins before a chemical abortion has finished its deadly work

The downside of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade has been the rise of chemical abortion and the way it allows abortion sellers to circumvent state laws designed to protect unborn children and their mothers. While exact numbers are hard to pin down, the accepted wisdom is that chemical abortion now accounts []