Originally, the bill was set to defund the abortion giant for 10 years.
By Catholics for Catholics
In a victory that pro-life advocates are hailing as a “major step” towards defunding Planned Parenthood, Republicans in the Senate passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” a measure that contains a stipulation to defund the abortion giant for a year.
According to the National Catholic Register, The bill was at first set to defund Planned Parenthood for 10 years. But last week, Elizabeth MacDonough, Senate Parliamentarian, excluded more than a dozen provisions in the bill, including the portion defunding abortion providers, forcing Republicans to rework the language of the bill.
Still, on Tuesday the Senate passed the revised bill after a tiebreaking vote which was cast by Vice President JD Vance, according to The Register. Opposing the bill were Republican Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
BREAKING: THE U.S. SENATE VOTED TUESDAY JULY 1 TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR ONE YEAR.
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This is a big win and good start! We must keep fighting to extend this 1 year period indefinitely. pic.twitter.com/vZwz4S3SiS
According to Fox News, Senate Republicans amended the provision on Friday from blocking Medicaid funding to abortion providers for 10 years to one year. The parliamentarian’s assessment that the provision could remain without jeopardizing the budget package from passing the upper chamber of Congress along party lines was championed by pro-life advocates.
“The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that stops forced taxpayer funding of the abortion industry has been retained in the Senate bill, as we were confident it would, though for one year. This is a huge win,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America’s President, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Taxpayers should never be forced to funnel their hard-earned dollars to Big Abortion. This funding currently hits almost $800 million annually.”
On the other hand, the inclusion of the provision was criticized by Democrats as basically clearing the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
“Republicans will stop at nothing in their crusade to take control of women’s bodies and deny them the right to make their own health care decisions,” Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said in a statement. “Republicans are trampling the law to force their extremist ideology onto the American people.”
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