Watchdog demands defunding of abortion-industry giant

A watchdog organization is demanding that the U.S. government, under the administration of President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency, defund a giant in the nation’s abortion industry.

A report at Fox News explains the former administration, under Joe Biden, handed over $700 million in money collected from taxpayers to Planned Parenthood, during one reporting period.

Now a group organized by former Vice President Mike Pence is urging Elon Musk, head of DOGE, to cut off the “wasteful” spending to the abortion company.

“For the sake of the American people and generations yet unborn, the time has come for the United States to finally defund the largest abortion provider in America,” Tim Chapman, president of Advancing American Freedom, told Musk in a letter.

The Government Accountability Office previously has reported that the abortion corporation routinely is given hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars though Health and Human Services grants and public health programs.

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates accounted for $148 million in HHS grants and $1.5 billion in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP payments, with regional organizations receiving an additional $108 million. Taxpayer dollars made up 34% of Planned Parenthood’s funding, the letter stated, citing a 2022-2023 annual report by the Charlotte Lozier Institute,” the report explained.

The letter praised the administration for working to eliminate waste and fraud, and said that the “opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood may be yours and President Trump’s greatest moment.”

Trump already has worked to remove support for abortion.

He has restored the Mexico City Policy which prohibits federal funding to international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions. And he issued an executive order enforcing the 1980 Hyde Amendment to prevent federal funds from being used for elective abortions.