RETALIATION: Planned Parenthood targets lawmakers who supported defunding

On July 4, 2026, Planned Parenthood regained access to approximately $700M in Medicaid dollars defunded by lawmakers last year. Now it appears that the organization's political action committees and ally organizations are seeking political revenge to unseat lawmakers who voted to defund Planned Parenthood. The goal, as always, is to expand access to abortion (the intentional killing of preborn children).

Key Takeaways:

• Planned Parenthood Votes, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-choice America), the ACLU, and Emily's List have pledged a combined $114M dollars to elect pro-abortion political allies during the 2026 midterms.

• More than 44% of that funding is coming rom Planned Parenthood.

• While Planned Parenthood claimed the one-year defunding measure resulted in the closure of "nearly 30" facilities, the organization had implemented plans prior to 2025 to shift to an online business model with Virtual Health Centers, which includes the sale of mail-order abortion pills.

The Details:

Planned Parenthood Votes, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-choice America), the ACLU, and Emily's List have pledged a combined $114M dollars to elect political allies during the 2026 midterms, who will prop up abortion.

Approximately $50.5 million of that amount (over 44%) is coming from Planned Parenthood.

The groups are seeking to:

• Unseat lawmakers who “defunded” Planned Parenthood of federal Medicaid for one year.

• Elect pro-abortion candidates up and down the ballot.

• Protect the "right to abortion, fighting back against anti-trans measures, and protecting state courts from politicized judicial selections and ballot measures affecting abortion."

• Effect a sea-change in governing power to elect pro-abortion Democrats at the state level.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which receives close to a billion in taxpayer dollars each year, is a 501(c)(3), yet according to the group's most recent financial audit:

PPFA... maintains primary domestic offices in New York City, NY, Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA. The Organization is also associated with 49 independent entities, the Planned Parenthood Affiliates (PP Affiliates), all of which are separately incorporated in their respective states and which collectively constitute PPFA’s membership. The PP Affiliates in turn have 111 ancillary entities (including 44 501(c)(4) organizations, which in turn have 61 Political Action Committees). [emphasis added]

... The individual entities within the Organization have interrelated directors/trustees and share common facilities and personnel. Various expenses, including occupancy costs and salaries, have been allocated among PPFA, the Action Fund, and PP Global based upon services rendered by common personnel and usage of common facilities.

1. Planned Parenthood Votes ($47M)

Planned Parenthood Votes (PPVotes) recently pledged $47 million to "to unseat lawmakers who 'defunded' Planned Parenthood, take power back in key states, build enduring majorities and advance protections for reproductive care and rights in others, and win races up and down the ballot to build support for a lasting, durable right to abortion" (emphases added).

"The 'We Decide' campaign will focus on electing unapologetic champions who are unafraid to fight for abortion, reproductive freedom, and Planned Parenthood," PP Votes wrote in its release.

The multi-million dollar campaign will seek to:

• "Build support for a lasting, durable right to abortion."

• "Oust vulnerable anti-abortion incumbents" 

On the #WeDecide 2026 pledge to vote page, Planned Parenthood vowed to stop those who oppose abortion, writing:

Republicans are moving to ban mifepristone, one of the two medicines used for medication abortion. They're trying to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers everywhere to make it harder for people to get an abortion. And they're just getting started. But we can stop them.

PP Votes previously described itself as a "Super PAC," which "can make unlimited independent expenditures for or against federal candidates and work in state races where permitted by state law." However, today, PPVotes describes itself as merely "an independent expenditure committee registered with the Federal Election Commission."

2. Planned Parenthood Action ($3.5M)

Separately, Planned Parenthood Action has pledged nearly $2 million to "stop congressional Republicans" who sought to defund the abortion corporation.

The "investment" as PPACT calls it, "follows the organization's $1.5 million efforts announced in April and expands the legislative map to target House Republicans in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania" PPACT wrote.

According to Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) latest audit, the Action Fund was incorporated in 1989 to "further PPFA's mission" and is described online as a "501(c)(4) independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit membership organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America ('PPFA')."

"Both the Action Fund and PPVotes engage in advocacy and/or electoral activities in support of the missions of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, which are separately incorporated 501(c)(3) organizations that provide health care services, and PPFA," the organization claims online.

Planned Parenthood's pollical money laundry scheme has been operational for some time. In 2018, PPVotes and PPACT vowed $20 million toward their Win Justice campaign. A similar amount was pledged in 2016. In 2017, the organization pledged $500K to organize “an army of volunteers” to support their 650 centers across the country.

“We’re in the fight of our lives,” Sarah Standiford, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, told Politico. Standiford claimed the abortion corporation was vowing to do everything PPVotes can to “elect unapologetic champions of reproductive freedom” and “make sure members of Congress who voted against Planned Parenthood lose their jobs.”

3. Reproductive Freedom for All ($23M)

On the anniversary of the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Freedom for All (RFFA) announced its pledge of $23.5 million towards the abortion organization's "My Body. My Ballot" campaign. The effort is seeking to "hold anti-abortion politicians accountable, and elect reproductive freedom champions in key races across the country."

The organization's release complained that "Anti-abortion politicians and extremists have made clear they will not stop at overturning Roe. They are attacking medication abortion, undermining emergency abortion care, defunding Planned Parenthood."

RFFA was previously known as NARAL Pro-Choice America; it has gone through multiple name changes. NARAL was founded by eugenics proponents as the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. Leaders of the organization were instrumental in fabricating lies about illegal abortion mortality rates to catapult the decriminalization of abortion prior to Roe.

4. EMILY’s List ($15M)

Emily's List, described by media as an "influential Democratic-aligned political action committee" announced its "2026 State Power Plan" in January. The $15 million campaign seeks to target "nine states where building Democratic centers of power in 2026 will make an immediate impact: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."

The organization, which has a goal to "work to elect Democratic pro-choice women up and down the ballot and across the country," is spending their millions in hopes that they will "build a Democratic pro-choice trifecta" in specific states and "see a real sea-change in governing power this year."

5. ACLU ($25.5M)

This week, the ACLU announced a $25.5M voter education electoral program to "educate voters on critical races and ballot measures affecting abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting, fair courts, and democracy protections in the 2026 midterm elections."

The organization plans to spend $12.5M of that money to target ballot initiatives which protect "the right to abortion" or oppose "anti-trans measures."

Zoom In:

In May of 2023, Planned Parenthood made the “strategic decision” to restructure and lay off staff at the national level, reportedly shifting those dollars to “build a powerful movement for abortion access at the local and state level.”

The abortion corporation has been under scrutiny after accusations of abuse, scandal, fraud, racism, pregnancy discrimination, breaches of privacy, and Medicaid fraud have piled up against Planned Parenthood — all of which violate federal requirements for obtaining taxpayer funding.

In July of 2025, Congress passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a budget reconciliation bill which included a one-year defunding of abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from federal Medicaid dollars. During this time, Planned Parenthood claims to have received "over $400 million in emergency funding" from pro-abortion states, in the past year.

Then, on July 4, 2026, the federal funding was restored, allowing Planned Parenthood to again receive taxpayer dollars.

While Planned Parenthood claimed the one-year defunding measure resulted in the closure of "nearly 30" facilities, the organization had implemented plans prior to 2025 to shift to an online business model, which includes the sale of mail-order abortion pills. Its brick and mortar closures and establishment of “Virtual Health Centers (VHCs)” are part of a larger restructuring plan it put in place years ago.

And while Planned Parenthood's services have been in decline even prior to the defunding, abortions and tax dollars have skyrocketed.

• Contraceptive services: decreased over 43% (from just over 4M) in 2009.

• Breast screenings: plummeted over 85% from 2000.

• STI testing: down over 43% since 2009.

In what has been described as a "killer year, Planned Parenthood committed a record 434,450 abortions while receiving $832million in taxpayer dollars, according to the organizations latest 2024-2025 annual report.

Since the year 2000, Planned Parenthood has:

• committed nearly 8M abortions (7,969,391) while providing just 331K prenatal care services.

• more than doubled its abortions (197k v 434.5k).

• received a greater than 310% increase in taxpayer funding (nearly $203M v $832M – year ending 6/30/2025).

The Bottom Line:

National abortion data for 2025 has revealed that tragically nearly 66 million abortions have been committed since 1973 when the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling forced legalized abortion upon every state in the nation. Increases in abortion numbers have been seen in the past few years due to the explosion of unregulated mail order abortion pills.

Spending millions of dollars in the upcoming election to guarantee the targeting of even more vulnerable preborn babies in the womb and further expand an already horrific abortion holocaust is simply (pardon the pun) heartless overkill.