Pro-Life Groups Call For Action After Planned Parenthood Regains Access To Taxpayer Funds

It was one of the GOP’s biggest pro-life wins, but even supporters said at the time that it wasn’t built to last.

And now that a prohibition on federal funds being used for Planned Parenthood has been lifted, those pro-life advocates are calling on representatives in D.C. to once again take action.

As The Hill reported:

Anti-abortion advocacy group Students for Life Action gave every lawmaker an “F” on its “pro life generation report card,” and said they need to “get busy” to replace it.

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“The bottom line, pro-life voters want to see healthcare money invested with those who intend for their patients to survive with their lives and fertility intact,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action and Students for Life of America, said in a statement.

Students for Life Action recently picketed outside the Republican National Committee headquarters, urging Republicans not to abandon anti-abortion voters and commit to defunding Planned Parenthood again.

Last year, anti-abortion activists warned lawmakers debating the defunding provision against creating a cliff just ahead of the midterms. They now worry that Republicans are squandering their control of government and won’t get another shot to pass conservative priorities if Congress is split after November.

“It is the default expectation of the pro-life movement for Congress to renew the defunding of Planned Parenthood and abortion businesses, and the politically smart thing for Republicans who must energize the base to win in November,” Kelsey Pritchard, communications director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement to The Hill. “SBA is doing our part by investing $160 million in 2026 and 2028 for Republican pro-life candidates, now Republicans must do their part in doing everything they can to once again defund Big Abortion.”

Lila Rose, president of the anti-abortion group Live Action, said allowing the ban to expire was a “moral failure” that needs to be corrected immediately.

“President Trump and Congress must act as fast as possible to restore and extend the defunding of Planned Parenthood and every organization that commits abortion,” Rose said in a statement.

The development has sparked some discussion on social media, too:

Tell your lawmakers to FIRE Planned Parenthood below👇: https://t.co/gltPLr2pEe

— Students for Life Action (@SFLAction) July 5, 2026

Cut it out of our Federal government funding forever!

— KDVP (@KVigilP) July 5, 2026

Congress let the Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding ban expire without extending it. Pro-life advocates called it a missed opportunity. They are right. The One Big Beautiful Bill got it right the first time. Congress needs to bring it back and make it permanent.

-HG

— Proud American Studios (@proudamericanst) July 6, 2026

As Newsmax added:

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he had doubted Republican leaders would have another opportunity to revive the provision through the budget reconciliation process.

“I’ve thought all along that a third reconciliation bill is highly unlikely for any number of reasons. When [leadership] said, ‘Well, we’ll do that later,’ my point was always: I don’t know that there’ll be a later,” Hawley told Politico.

Hawley called the decision to omit another Planned Parenthood funding restriction from the Republicans’ immigration-focused reconciliation package approved in June “a huge missed opportunity.”

“The fact that congressional leaders decided not to defund them as part of the last reconciliation bill is just beyond me,” he said.

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“That was really taking the pro-life movement and pro-life voters for granted, because you’re depending on those voters to turn out and vote for you in November.”

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, called on Republicans to restore the policy when Congress returns.

“Defunding Big Abortion is now the default expectation of the pro-life movement,” Dannenfelser said in a statement.