California budget committee approves additional $90 million for Planned Parenthood

A California Senate budget committee passed a budget amendment that would offer an additional $90 million in state funding to Planned Parenthood after the abortion organization lost its federal funding under President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

Key Takeaways:

• The California Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee approved a bill that would allocate an additional $90 million in funding to abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood.

• The funding would be in addition to $140 million previously appropriated by lawmakers.

• Planned Parenthood continues to claim that women's healthcare will suffer if it doesn't receive funding, yet the organization serves just two percent of women of reproductive age, and its annual reports show that the legitimate healthcare services it offers continue to plummet.

The Details:

Lawmakers in the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee approved a $90 million payout from the state's general fund on February 4; the money would be in addition to $140 million appropriated by lawmakers earlier in the session.

The legislation, Senate Bill 106, states that the $90 million could go to any "family planning" provider that has lost federal funding due to participation in abortion, but Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, both indicated that Planned Parenthood would be the main recipient.

READ: She quit Planned Parenthood after seeing 'fully formed' 16-week aborted baby

“Funding for women’s health care has come under attack since the federal administration passed H.R. 1 last summer,” Limón wrote in a statement sent to The Center Square. "I am grateful our state was able to allocate $90 million through an early budget action that will allow Planned Parenthood to continue providing essential health care to millions.”

The Big Picture:

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) states that reproductive health organizations that received more than $800,000 in Medicaid funds in 2023 would no longer receive that funding for one year unless they stop committing elective induced abortions. Planned Parenthood, which makes an estimated over $200 million annually from abortions, refused to comply with this stipulation.

The abortion organization serves just two percent (2%) of American women of reproductive age, and annual reports regularly show that Planned Parenthood’s legitimate health care services have plummeted even as the corporation’s abortion numbers have hit record highs. Yet pro-abortion lawmakers continue to push taxpayer dollars to the organization under the guise that women will suffer without Planned Parenthood.

The Bottom Line:

Induced abortion — the direct and intentional killing of preborn children — is not healthcare.

California Family Council Vice President Greg Burt indicated as much in a statement in which he roundly rejected the budget proposal.

“When a society rejects God and the inherent value of human life, this is where it leads: calling the destruction of children ‘care’ and calling massive abortion subsidies ‘compassion,’ Burt said. "These bills reveal just how dark our moral vision becomes when we abandon the truth about human dignity.”