Planned Parenthood Defunding Expires, Pro-Life Groups Call for Congress to Act


A one-year prohibition on federal Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood expired Saturday, restoring taxpayer dollars to the nation’s largest abortion business on America’s 250th birthday.

The expiration prompted strong condemnation from pro-life advocates who called on Congress and President Trump to immediately restore the defunding.

The ban, part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, had blocked Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and similar abortion organizations that kill unborn babies. Its expiration allows federal funds to resume flowing to the group for non-abortion activities. ---More...


Man Convicted of Murdering His Girlfriend and Her Unborn Baby

On July 1, after less than three hours of deliberation, a Nashville jury found Blaise Taylor guilty of killing his pregnant girlfriend and their 24-week-old unborn child. Later that same day, the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison.

The 30-year-old Taylor was convicted of second-degree murder for the death of Jade Benning, first-degree premeditated murder for the death of her unborn child, and two counts of felony murder covering both deaths. ---More...


Planned Parenthood Could Get $600 Million Unless Republicans Act

As the U.S. celebrated its 250th birthday, Planned Parenthood cheered the return of hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding as lawmakers failed to extend the law banning its federal funding.

The Republican-controlled Congress missed the deadline to extend the prohibition of Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding which expired on July 4.

The nation’s largest abortion provider originally lost this funding in July 2025 when President Trump signed the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. Republican lawmakers originally intended to halt Planned Parenthood’s federal funding for 10 years, but eventually shortened it to only one year, which ended July 4. ---More...




Little Sisters of the Poor Return to Court to Fight Abortion Mandate

Attorneys for the Little Sisters of the Poor will appear before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tomorrow to ask the court to block a nationwide ruling that rejected the Catholic nuns’ protection from the federal government’s abortion mandate.

The Little Sisters have spent more than a decade defeating government efforts to force them to provide abortifacient contraceptives in their healthcare plan or face tens of millions of dollars in fines.

That winning streak features three Supreme Court victories, including a 2020 ruling in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania upholding the federal conscience rule that protects the Sisters from the mandate. ---More...


Planned Parenthood Injures Three More Women After Killing Woman in Botched Abortion

Operation Rescue recently confirmed three women requiring emergency transport from the Park Hill Planned Parenthood located in Denver, Colorado — the same state where Lexi Arguello lost her life and the life of her unborn baby in February of last year.

Like the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood that killed Lexi, this Denver Planned Parenthood also performs dangerous late-term abortions while going unregulated and unlicensed by the state. And just like Fort Collins, this Denver clinic continues to regularly injure women with no consequences. ---More...



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