"Unconscionable & Deliberate": GOP Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood Amid Maternal Health Crisis

Seg4 budget

A last-minute addition to President Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill seeks to ban Affordable Care Act healthcare plans from covering abortion, in addition to defunding hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics that provide reproductive healthcare throughout the United States. “Congress is literally walking us into a crisis of forced birth,” says Mini Timmaraju, president of the advocacy group Reproductive Freedom for All, which is launching a series of campaigns targeting key senators ahead of the Senate vote on the GOP-backed budget bill.

Full article on the Democracy Now website at http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/27/spending_bill_planned_parenthood_abortion

Story imported via RSS from DemocracyNow.org
RSS Article Source: http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/27/spending_bill_planned_parenthood_abortion

Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events. Support Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/

Leave a Reply