(LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI) has announced that it will suspend abortion operations in October as long as a federal block on taxpayer dollars to abortions remains in effect.
WTMJ reports that the move comes in reaction to a federal appeals court upholding a portion of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (BBB) that includes a one-year ban on federal tax dollars going through Medicaid to any entity that commits abortions for reasons other than rape, incest, or supposed threats to the mother’s life. Roughly 60 percent of PPWI’s patients are covered by Medicaid.
Abortion, the destruction of an innocent unborn baby in his or her mother’s womb, is never medically necessary or justifiable.
“Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will continue to provide the full spectrum of [so-called] reproductive health care — including abortion — as soon as we are able to,” the abortion giant’s Wisconsin affiliate said. “In the meantime, we are pursuing every available option — through the courts, through operations, and civic engagement.”
Especially without Roe v. Wade to ensure abortion’s legality, the industry relies heavily on taxpayer funding to stay in operation. Last year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s most recent annual report revealed that its affiliates across the nation took in $699.3 million in government “health services” reimbursements and grants, accounting for 39 percent of its total revenue during that period. At the same time, the abortion chain committed 392,715 abortions – yet its non-abortion procedures, such as pap tests and cancer screenings, continued to decline as percentages of its overall business.
Within weeks of returning to office, Trump began enforcing the Hyde Amendment (which forbids most federal funds from directly supporting elective abortions), reinstated the Mexico City Policy (which forbids non-governmental organizations from using taxpayer dollars for elective abortions abroad), and cut millions in pro-abortion subsidies by freezing U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spending.
In March, the administration froze Title X “family planning” grants to nonprofits it said violated its executive orders on immigration and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including Planned Parenthood affiliates in nine states.
Other Republicans have proposed standalone measures to fully cut off Planned Parenthood’s government funding: the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which permanently bans federal funds from being used for abortion; and the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which disqualifies Planned Parenthood and its affiliates specifically. But they would require 60 votes to make it through the Senate.
