House Republicans Propose Defunding Planned Parenthood, Other Abortion Providers in Megabill

The proposal folded into Trump’s “big beautiful bill” follows the administration’s move last month to strip its planned custody of Title X funding.

House Republicans are proposing Medicaid rebates for organizations like Planned Parents as part of a drastic policy bill to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Within the Energy and Commercial Commission’s 160-page budget proposal released Sunday, there is a provision that will deprive the organization of abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or health risks to the mother.

The rules apply to organizations that receive more than $1 million in federal funds per year, including Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. We have blocked funds for such organizations for 10 years.

The federal government is already legally prohibited from funding abortions under the HYDE amendment, but Planned Parenthood has long received taxes for other programs such as cancer screening and family planning.

A recent report shows that roughly 34% of that funding came from 2023 federal rebates and grants. That year, Planned Custody received a taxpayer fund of approximately $792 million and conducted over 400,000 abortions.

Planned Parenthood said the proposal puts health goals at risk.

“The proposal declares that congressional abortion opponents can give tax credits as working families are surged so that billionaires can give tax credits,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in a statement on May 11.

McGill also said that refund planning custody will result in secondary damage: increased undetected cancer, increased sexual infection rates, and increased costs of birth control.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) also criticized the proposal, vowing that she and other Democrats would stop it.

“Republicans have failed to reimburse planned custody in the final settlement bill, and Democrats are confident they will fight against everything that must stop them from tearing down access to care through this planned parent care,” she said in a statement on May 12.

Earlier this year, Rep. Michelle Fishbach (R-Minn.) rebutted the claim that mental issues are women’s “comprehensive health care services.”

She said, “In 2020 (planned parent-child relationships) performed 383,460 abortions, but the amount of prenatal services provided fell from 40,000 to 9,000 in just 10 years.”

“It’s clear that Planned Parenthood will not be a business that supports women, but instead will offer abortions on demand instead,” she said in a statement on January 14th.

Her statement came as part of her reintroduction of parent-child relationships with refund plans. The bill will strip you of current planned custody of funding and prevent it and all other organizations from accessing federal funds unless you commit to not conducting abortions.

Planned Parenthood is already under pressure as it hit a cut from the Trump administration earlier this year, kicking off the Title X program in March.

The program will fund “natural family planning methods, fertility services and services for adolescents, highly effective methods of birth control, and (and) breast cancer screening and prevention.”

The administration has frozen some of the organization’s funds and frozen some of Trump’s executive orders based on allegations that Planned Custody and other groups violate civil rights laws.