In an August 12 press release, a Planned Parenthood affiliate said that if the Trump administration is successful in preventing it from receiving Medicaid funding, pregnant women and infants will suffer. On July 4, President Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which included the one-year defunding of the abortion giant — but a judge quickly blocked the provision and it has not yet gone into effect.
Despite this, Planned Parenthood has blamed the defunding for the closure of various Planned Parenthood facilities even as it expands its virtual health clinics.
Key Takeaways:
- Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties (PPOSBC) killed 17,563 babies in 2023-2024.
- Planned Parenthood is facing a potential one-year loss of Medicaid funding because it refuses to separate its abortion business from its health care services.
- PPOSBC argues that if it loses federal Medicaid funding, its opt-out syphilis and trichomoniasis screening strategy will have to be cut, leaving women and babies at risk — and claims this is proof that the current administration does not care about women and children.
- PPOSBC and other California affiliates receives funding from California state Medicaid (Medi-Cal).
The Details:
According to the press release, leadership at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties (PPOSBC) in California explained that “new data highlights the potentially devastating impact this defunding could have on pregnant women and their babies in the region.”
It said that “nearly 100,000 women may be deprived of opt-out screenings for syphilis and trichomoniasis,” because it would no longer be able to run its “opt-out screening strategy” for the STIs. The release also said that this program has provided annual STI testing to all 130,000 of PPOSBC patients, and that without that testing, babies will suffer. There are currently about 200,000 cases of syphilis annually in the U.S.
While it’s true that syphilis can cause neurological damage and other medical conditions in infants, and trichomoniasis can increase the risk of premature labor and low birth weight, Planned Parenthood is not in the business of protecting babies. In fact, PPOSBC could ensure its Medicaid funding remains in place by ending its business of killing preborn children (over 400,000 total for all Planned Parenthood affiliates in 2023-2024). But it won’t.
Instead, it’s attempting to flip the narrative. PPOSBC reported 17,563 abortions in its 2023-2024 annual report, and as National Review noted, “While most Planned Parenthood affiliates’ revenue is derived roughly 50–50 from donations and clinic services, the California affiliates receive 81.5 percent of their revenue from clinic services, the bulk of which derives from Medicaid (in California, Medi-Cal).”
The press release said the opt-out STI testing identified 396 cases of trichomoniasis in pregnant women since July 2024 (about one year), but did not say how many syphilis cases were diagnosed in pregnant women because of its program, meaning that number could as low as zero.
Did you catch those numbers?
PPOSBC kills 17,000 more babies in a year than it protects from syphilis and trichomoniasis.
Yet it’s pointing fingers at pro-life legislators as the bad guys because they (and taxpayers) don’t want to continue funding PPOSBC’s business of baby killing with federal dollars.
The Bottom Line:
PPOSBC believes that being born with a health condition is worse than being dismembered or poisoned to death, and it wants us to believe that it is the good guy, despite killing more than 17,000 babies a year, because it diagnoses a few hundred women with trichomoniasis — a treatable condition.
Planned Parenthood can claim (and it does in the press release) that federal Medicaid funding is not legally allowed to be spent on abortion, and that’s technically true. But defunding the abortion giant still matters.
While the Hyde Amendment states that government funding cannot be used to pay for abortions, it is well understood that money is fungible — meaning that those funds are paying for the same building, same utilities, and same salaries, and, therefore, those funds are also indirectly supporting the business of killing by abortion.
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