In a first-of-its-kind victory, Big Abortion businesses were stripped of all taxpayer-funded Medicaid dollars (its largest pool of federal funds) on July 4, 2025, as part of the historic passage of the Working Families Tax Cuts. But that provision was only set to last one year. On July 5, 2026, Big Abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood resumed billing Medicaid to subsidize abortions and pediatric sex-rejecting procedures on the taxpayer dime.
Although forced taxpayer funding of the abortion industry is back up and running, the one-year Medicaid moratorium did make a huge dent in the abortion industry. In July 2025 alone, twenty-five brick-and-mortar abortion clinics closed in ten states, and that number climbed to fifty total closures in 2025.
Most of these clinics will remain closed despite the refund as Big Abortion businesses shift their business models to telehealth and other online services, but at least one Planned Parenthood clinic is set to reopen in New Orleans, Louisiana, later this year with plans to provide so-called “gender-affirming care.” The remaining five hundred or so Planned Parenthood locations across the United States will be free to recover from the one-year financial hit.
With its largest funding stream restored—upwards of $830 million—Planned Parenthood will double down on facilitating the mail-order abortion drug crisis via Telehealth (illegally shipping dangerous abortion drugs into pro-life states) and operating its ever-increasing pediatric “gender-affirming care” business. From 2021 to 2022, the abortion giant reported a 1,514% increase in total “transgender services” (from 15,902 services to 256,550 services). From 2023-2024 to 2024-2025, Planned Parenthood’s “transgender services” increased by 40%.
Planned Parenthood is not ashamed of its preeminence in so-called “gender-affirming care” nationwide—the franchise brags about being the “second largest provider of hormone therapy.” Even as the cultural tide turns on the ills of chemical and surgical mutilation, the corporation’s business model is centered on “transing” vulnerable children and adults.
As Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers continue to rise to over 400,000 babies killed annually, it is long past time for the federal government to pull the plug on funding the abortion industry. The American people deserve better than footing the bill for a business that exists solely to kill babies and irreversibly harm children.
Now that Big Abortion is refunded, what’s next?
First, Congress can and should defund Big Abortion businesses once again with a third budget reconciliation bill. Use Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) action center to tell your legislators that your hard-earned tax dollars should not fund abortions and sex-rejecting procedures like cross sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors.
Second, you can support or volunteer at your local Pregnancy Resource Center. Women and mothers do not need Planned Parenthood’s 500 abortion clinics, where 97% of pregnancy-related services are exclusively abortions. Almost 3,000 Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) operated by charitable people of faith offer fully informed choices and genuine care for pregnant women across the country.
Additionally, 19,000 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs)—already funded by the government and available for Medicaid users and underserved communities—provide the general and sexual health care that Planned Parenthood does not. Between FQHCs and PRCs, there are well over 20,000 health centers with a range of life-affirming, fully informed choices for women, compared to a total of just 753 abortion clinics across the country.
Sixty percent of women who had abortions report they would have preferred to carry their pregnancies to term if they had received greater support, resources, or assistance. Those resources exist, outnumbering abortion centers 30 to 1. You can step into the gap and make sure mothers know that real, quality alternatives to abortion exist.
Big Abortion got its money back on America’s 250th birthday, but the fight isn’t over. Congress can defund the industry once again, and you can lift up women and mothers in your community.
