Editor’s Note: This article was updated Thursday, July 3 after Congress officially passed the final version of the bill.
(Oregon Right to Life) — The Republican-led U.S. Congress passed the “Big Beautiful Bill” Thursday, officially approving a provision cutting federal taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood for a year and sending the bill to President Trump’s desk for a signature. The move is anticipated to cause the shuttering of hundreds of abortion facilities nationwide.
The official passage of the bill comes after lengthy and contentious debate, with the U.S. Senate approving the bill in a narrow 51–50 vote (Vice President J.D. Vance acting as tie-breaker) in the Senate vote. The bill then returned to the U.S. House of Representatives, where it passed in a 218-214 vote Thursday afternoon.
The bill had undergone numerous revisions in both chambers of Congress prior to its Thursday passage. Significantly, an earlier provision to strip taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood for a decade was reduced to a single year in the Senate shortly before its final passage. Despite the changes, the surviving version of the bill will still cut funding to the abortion giant.
President Trump is slated to sign the bill at 5:00 pm ET on Friday, Independence Day.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund recently estimated that the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood could trigger the closure of almost 200 Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in 24 states nationwide.
Pro-life advocates have responded enthusiastically to the bill’s passage.
“This vote is a monumental step forward for unborn children and their mothers,” National Right to Life President Carol Tobias said in a press statement shared with Oregon Right to Life following the Senate vote. On Thursday, Tobias added: “For decades, Americans have made it clear that they do not want their tax dollars funding abortion. Today, Congress delivered.”
“Women deserve compassionate, life-affirming care that upholds the dignity of both the mother and the baby,” Tobias said. “This legislation sends the message that we can—and should—foster a culture that cherishes both lives.”
“Defunding the abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, marks the greatest pro-life victory since the Dobbs decision,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a Thursday statement. “For the first time in history, Congress is halting forced taxpayer funding of Big Abortion in the Medicaid program for one year. This will save lives and strip over $500 million from Big Abortion’s coffers. Combined with last week’s Supreme Court decision empowering states to do the same, this represents tremendous progress toward achieving a decades-long goal that has long proved elusive.
Though the reduction from 10 years to one has been seen as a setback for pro-life advocates, the impact on Planned Parenthood is anticipated to be significant.
“Republicans’ last-minute changes to shorten the timeline of this provision hardly matter—once health clinics lose funding and are forced to close their doors, they are unlikely to reopen again,” pro-abortion Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray said in a statement last week.
Planned Parenthood currently receives approximately 40% of its annual revenue from federal grants and reimbursements. According to its official 2023–2024 report, Planned Parenthood brought in more than $2 billion in revenue during the year, $792.2 million (39%) of which came from the federal government. During the same period, the abortion giant reported performing 402,230 abortions.
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And the elimination of funds to Planned Parenthood is unlikely to be limited to federal cuts, as Dannenfelser observed in her statement.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling affirming that states have the right to exclude Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds. The ruling, immediately impacting South Carolina, will have a nationwide impact, affording other states greater freedom to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer dollars.
States that support abortion are anticipated to allocate additional funds to bolster Planned Parenthood in the event of federal defunding. For example, Oregon’s biennial spending bill will provide an additional $10 million to its Oregon Health Authority (OHA) budget to offset the withdrawal of federal dollars to Planned Parenthood. The Supreme Court’s June 26 decision is seen as a significant victory for pro-life advocates, enabling states nationwide to block funding for Planned Parenthood.
