The Senate's version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes stripping all federal funding to organizations such as Planned Parenthood that perform abortions.
The abortion provider provision in the Medicaid section of the bill's text, released Monday night by Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, mirrors the language of the House bill that was narrowly passed last month, the Washington Examiner reported.
Just as in the House version, the legislation would prohibit federal funding for abortion providers, as well as those who provide gender-transition procedures, for the next 10 years. If the provision remains in the final version of the bill, the law would prohibit federal Medicaid funding for nonabortion services from healthcare centers that perform elective abortions. Under federal law, Medicaid dollars cannot go toward abortions except to save the life of the mother or if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, but they can go to health centers that provide elective abortions.
"We praise Majority Leader John Thune [R-S.D.] and Finance Committee Chair Sen. Mike Crapo for their leadership," said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, in a statement Monday. "The One, Big Beautiful Bill brings us closer to disentangling federal tax dollars from subsidizing the abortion industry.
"American citizens should not be forced into funding abortions."
Congressional Republicans have tried for years — since well before the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortions — to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood, only to fall short. However, the reconciliation bill is broader than Planned Parenthood and applies to any provider that received more than $1 million in Medicaid funding in 2024, the Examiner reported.
Planned Parenthood pledged to "fight like hell" to oppose the language.
"With this proposal, abortion opponents in Congress have declared they want working families to take on skyrocketing healthcare costs so they can give billionaires a tax break," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said Sunday, according to the Examiner.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement Monday, "It's indefensible that America's largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, siphons over $2 million a day from taxpayers while delivering substandard care — from moldy equipment and leaking sewage to botched abortions and the trafficking of baby body parts.
"Women have real choices for their healthcare, with community health centers far more accessible and offering much more comprehensive care than abortion businesses," Dannenfelser said. "We thank Majority Leader John Thune and Finance Committee Chair Sen. Mike Crapo for their leadership and encourage both chambers to get the One Big Beautiful Bill Act across the finish line."
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