Imagine you’re a taxpayer working two jobs, juggling bills, and watching every dollar. Now imagine finding out that $670 million of your hard-earned money is going to fund an abortion mega-corporation that also dabbles in sex-change services for minors. That’s not a dystopian movie plot — that’s Planned Parenthood’s business model, and until recently, the American taxpayer was their unwitting investor.
But not anymore.
Thanks to President Trump and a federal appeals court with enough backbone to stand up to the abortion-industrial complex, that gravy train has hit a red light. This week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals — yes, even with Biden-appointed judges — ruled 3-0 to let the Trump administration’s defunding of Planned Parenthood move forward. That’s right, even Biden’s own judicial benchwarmers couldn’t stomach the legal gymnastics needed to keep the cash flowing to America’s largest abortion provider.
Let’s rewind. Planned Parenthood, a group founded by eugenics enthusiast Margaret Sanger — who, by the way, advocated sterilizing “undesirable” people — was raking in roughly $670 million annually from the government. That’s your paycheck funding 1.1 million abortions a year and, if you’re lucky, a few virtue-signaling press releases about “reproductive justice.”
Trump had made a promise back in 2016 to cut them off, and in true Trump fashion, he delivered — this time through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed on Independence Day 2025. The bill stripped Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and similar organizations for the 2026 fiscal year. Naturally, Planned Parenthood freaked out and lawyered up, claiming that defunding them would somehow lead to mass outbreaks of venereal disease and unplanned pregnancies — as if they were the only clinic in America with a thermometer and a jar of cotton swabs.
Enter Judge Indira Talwani, appointed by Barack “If You Like Your Plan” Obama. She quickly handed Planned Parenthood a lifeline in the form of a preliminary injunction, forcing the government to keep the cash flowing. Her rationale? Without tax dollars, women might lose access to “health care.” Translation: If you stop funding abortion mills, women might have to go to one of the 15-to-1 more comprehensive, non-abortion clinics available across the country. What a tragedy.
But this week, the appeals court overturned her ruling. And here’s where it gets delicious — this was a panel of Biden appointees. Even they couldn’t justify treating Planned Parenthood like a sacred cow while the rest of the country tightens its belt under Biden’s inflation hangover.
Predictably, Planned Parenthood’s leadership responded with the usual sky-is-falling hysteria. Dominique Lee, their Massachusetts CEO, cried that “nearly 40% of PPLM’s patients rely on Medicaid.” Alexis McGill Johnson, the national CEO, went full panic mode, accusing the Trump administration of trying to control women’s bodies — because apparently, not paying for your abortion is the same as banning it.
Meanwhile, pro-life groups like Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America popped the champagne, calling it what it is: a desperate money grab by Big Abortion.
Here’s the dirty little secret nobody in the media wants to admit: this was never about health care. It was about power. Planned Parenthood bankrolls Democrat campaigns, funds progressive activism, and acts as a political arm of the left. Follow the money, and you’ll find it doesn’t go to mammograms — it goes to PACs, politicians, and lawsuits against any state that dares to protect unborn life.
Now, with the Trump administration holding the purse strings again, the abortion lobby is realizing it can’t bully its way into your wallet anymore.
But don’t get too comfortable — because the next round of lawfare is already being cooked up in some D.C. conference room. The big question is: when will Democrats admit that their loyalty isn’t to women’s health — it’s to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line?