By Sarah Neely
Washington, DC – This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a lawsuit filed by PPSA after the South Carolina governor issued an executive order terminating Medicaid funding for any healthcare businesses that provide abortions.
This order was based on South Carolina state laws that explicitly bar any state funds for family planning to be used towards abortion. If SCOTUS upholds the executive order, it will open the path for other states to terminate Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood – a crucial blow to the already floundering abortion giant.
“Planned Parenthood is sinking faster every day,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Clinics are closing, disgruntled employees are talking to the news, and the federal funding they have long depended on is drying up. Americans are realizing what the pro-life movement has been saying for years: no one needs Planned Parenthood. It’s nothing more than a corrupt money pit masquerading as women’s healthcare.”
That masquerade must be getting harder every day, as investigations into Planned Parenthood keep piling up.
Just before oral arguments began at the Supreme Court, nine Planned Parenthood affiliates received letters notifying them that federal grants under Title X would be “temporarily withheld” as a result of “possible violations.” Health and Human Services gave Planned Parenthood ten days to respond, after which a review process will begin. Tens of millions of dollars in Title X funding could be permanently denied.
A few weeks before that, President Trump confirmed the possibility of a criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood’s known participation in the illegal sale of baby body parts.
The United States Senate is also looking into Planned Parenthood. Specifically, the millions received by Planned Parenthood during the pandemic. Sens. Joni Ernst and Rand Paul recently sent a letter to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) requesting past records and “immediate attention to the unlawful participation of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).”
According to the letter, Planned Parenthood wrongfully applied for PPP loans in 2020 totaling more than $80 million, which the SBA later determined should be returned due to ineligibility. Once Biden took office, however, Planned Parenthood was suddenly approved for loans amounting to around $40 million. Later, the SBA even allowed 34 of these loans to Planned Parenthood to be forgiven.
“All of these legal challenges and investigations have a central theme,” adds Newman, “Planned Parenthood’s audacious belief that federal money and state tax dollars should be at their personal disposal, no matter the rule, law, or statute. Like a petulant child, Planned Parenthood can’t stop throwing tantrums and yelling ‘Mine! Mine! Mine!’
“Americans are done with that. Planned Parenthood injures women, exploits employees, lies to donors, and cheats hard-working Americans.”
Just last month, Operation Rescue began investigating the death of Alexis Arguello, an 18-year-old Colorado girl who died from a botched, late-term abortion committed by Planned Parenthood. The Fort Collins abortion clinic delayed emergency care after Alexis developed a serious abortion complication, even reportedly requesting no lights and sirens – a typical request from abortion clinics attempting to downplay life-threatening injuries to women.
“Planned Parenthood doesn’t deserve one penny of government funding,” adds Newman. “We are praying hard that South Carolina gains a legal victory at the Supreme Court, and that the truth about this trainwreck of an organization keeps coming out. The fewer Planned Parenthoods in this nation, the more lives saved.”
This report may be republished with inclusion of the following acknowledgement: “This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.”
