Denver officials demand taxpayers nationwide subsidize lucrative abortion industry

Officials in the leftist city of Denver are demanding that taxpayers nationwide subsidize their abortionists at the industry behemoth, Planned Parenthood.

They have joined with officials in other Democrat-run cities to insist that Congress and President Donald Trump were wrong, and they must reverse their opinions and their actions and restore the flow of taxpayer cash to the abortionists.

It is in a report at the Center Square that the city’s agenda was revealed.

“In Denver, we will always fight for the rights of women to access contraception and reproductive care,” claimed Mike Johnston, Denver’s mayor, in the report.

“We are proud to join this amicus brief to push back on President Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill’s unconstitutional targeting of Planned Parenthood and to ensure women receive quality, life-saving care regardless of their ability to pay.”

Actually, in the court case over the funding, which was rejected by congressional action in a bill signed into law by President Trump in America’s democratic procedures, the abortionists are claiming they have a constitutional right to cash taken directly from taxpayers.

The report noted Trump’s BBB Act blocks federal funding for one year to any healthcare provider that received over $800,000 in federal Medicaid payments in 2023 and is primarily involved in “family planning” services, is a nonprofit organization or provides abortions.

Planned Parenthood claims the restrictions are unconstitutional because they must have taxpayer cash to fulfill their constitutional right to freedom of association.

The brief from Denver, and others, said they “have significant interest in protecting access to medical care, including reproductive and sexual healthcare and family planning services, for their most vulnerable residents.”

For that, they are demanding a nationwide tax.

And that money needs to be sent to Planned Parenthood, “a vital part of the healthcare ecosystem,” they charge.

A lower court had issued injunctions blocking the funding cuts, for now.

But then an appeals court put a hold on that injunction.

Denver officials are arguing for something they don’t need, as Colorado lawmakers already have stepped up to take money from their own residents and give it to Planned Parenthood businesses in the state.

But Denver complained that would mean less money for “other” priorities, so it wants the tax funding to come from all Americans nationwide.

The Supreme Court already has ruled states have the right to exclude abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from state Medicaid programs.

The brief also argues that keeping the funding going, through Planned Parenthood, will increase the number of women “in the paid labor force.’

And it notes that the changes mean local and state governments will have to make hard decisions about budgets, as they won’t have as much money.

It claims that the congressional action was “based on an unlawful ideological basis,” suggesting that the law insists on a pro-abortion “ideological basis.”