Trump kept his promise to defund Big Abortion. Rogue judges can’t stop what Congress has done.
A s our country celebrated Independence Day this year, President Trump and pro-life leaders in Congress delivered the biggest victory for unborn babies and their mothers since Dobbs, stopping forced taxpayer funding of the Big Abortion industry with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
This victory was decades in the making. As a candidate in 2016, on the heels of an undercover investigation that exposed Big Abortion’s role in selling baby body parts, Trump pledged to defund abortion giant Planned Parenthood of taxpayer dollars as long as they continued to abort America’s future, our children.
Promise made, promise kept. The nation’s largest abortion business, which ends the lives of more than 400,000 unborn children a year, will lose access to its largest taxpayer-funding stream — half a billion dollars — for the first time in history. Even better, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act stops any Big Abortion business, no matter who they are or where they are, from forcing taxpayers to prop them up financially.
Nor would it have happened without the grit and grace of Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune, who shepherded the bill through the months-long negotiation process. Ditto for Senators Bernie Moreno of Ohio, Tim Sheehy of Montana, and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, part of a Republican majority newly elected last year with SBA Pro-Life America’s support and whose votes were decisive. Vice President JD Vance provided the historic tie-breaking vote to get it across the finish line in the Senate.
Out of a host of pro-life wins that the new administration has ushered in, this one makes the biggest impact yet. Chuck Schumer predicts that at least 200 abortion centers around the country will close their doors for good, and it’s already happening. Last summer, Planned Parenthood set up a bus for performing free abortions outside the Democratic National Convention. This summer, they’re laying off executive staff. Lives will be saved across the country because of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Beyond their PR, the abortion industry has made it clear they’re not really in the health care business. While there are over 1.1 million abortions annually in the United States, driven by an industry and their blue-state allies who push dangerous mail-order abortion drugs at any cost, Planned Parenthood does fewer cancer screenings and less prenatal care than ever. In 2025, no woman has ever gotten a mammogram at Planned Parenthood, and no one ever will, although their teenage daughters can easily obtain “gender transitions” as well as abortions. More women, including Medicaid patients, will be served by community health centers that outnumber Planned Parenthoods 15 to 1 nationwide, and that are far more accessible and offer much more comprehensive health care.
Not everyone thought it was possible to defund Big Abortion. We’d come very close in the past only to watch victory slip away. I will never forget the night in 2017 when defunding the abortion industry failed by one vote. I was outside the Senate chamber, lobbying late into the night, when John McCain flashed his infamous “thumbs-down” gesture that would sink pro-life advocates’ hopes for defunding for — as it would turn out — eight long years. So it was extra sweet to get to witness the One Big Beautiful Bill Act pass in person this year.
Now the abortion industry is suing to block the will of the voters, duly passed by Congress. They argue they’re constitutionally entitled to our tax dollars in perpetuity, and they’ve found a single activist judge willing to take their side and impose that view on the entire nation — for now. This hubris explains a lot about the decline and fall of the Big Abortion empire. They provide a terrible bill of goods to women, including botched procedures and exposure to open sewage, but they won’t divert funds from their true priorities — abortion, politics, and lawfare — to fix it, and they still demand more money.
We should see Big Abortion’s latest move for what it is: a failing industry’s last desperate power grab. Time is running out for them, and their taxpayer-funded gravy train is nearing the final stop.
It is encouraging that the Trump administration is moving swiftly to appeal this undemocratic ruling. The pro-life movement will keep fighting back as long as it takes, until not a single dollar goes to fund the brutal abortion industry. America stands on the side of life, and life will win.