“Social conservatives have dreamed for decades about bankrupting Planned Parenthood,” writes Matthew Hennessey in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. But it’s never been more than a dream. Until now.
For years, your tax dollars have subsidized the slaughter of unborn children. Sporadic efforts to cut off the tens of millions of dollars sent each year by Uncle Sam to Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest abortion provider, went nowhere. Until now.
Now, the “Big Beautiful Bill” pushed through Congress by the Trump administration contains a provision to defund Planned Parenthood. Hennessey, in his Journal op-ed, flatly declares: “It’s the most significant pro-life law ever.”
Does that sound like hyperbole? Go ahead: name a more important piece of pro-life legislation at the federal level. The Hyde Amendment was a big pro-life win, certainly. The Mexico City policy has been important, but that’s an executive order (routinely rescinded when Democrats control the White House) rather than an act of Congressional legislation. There have been important victories in the Senate on judicial appointments, but again those have not involved laws. So if the defunding of Planned Parenthood is not the most significant pro-life law ever,” what is? Frankly, the competition is not stiff.
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