SCOTUS should abort Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding
When you shoplift from a store, that store can legally ban you. So, why does the nation’s largest abortion and gender-mutilating business think it has a right to be funded by taxpayers when it has defrauded us?
Yes. Numerous whistleblowers have accused Planned Parenthood of stealing from Medicaid to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. The abortion giant even had to pay back the state of Texas $4.9 million for “allegations of medically unnecessary care”. And this was the result of the actions of the Obama Department of Justice — not exactly a conservative administration. The Office of Inspector General of HHS announced in another case in North Carolina involving the Planned Parenthood South Atlantic affiliate: “Planned Parenthood agreed to pay $1.5 million for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by submitting claims for Medicaid service not provided.”
There are a lot of reasons to defund Planned Parenthood. Alleged or actual Medicaid fraud is just one of many. In 2021, South Carolina moved to defund Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding. A federal district court wrongly forced the state to restore that funding. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the Palmetto State. The historic case, Medina vs Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, will be heard on Wednesday, April 2, at the Supreme Court. Despite the fact, South Carolina has banned abortion beyond 6 weeks and bars the state from funding abortion, whether directly or indirectly, the corrupt activist organization thinks taxpayers must be forced to fund its political agenda.
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Notice I didn’t say “medical” practice. For decades real medical services have been plummeting at the abortion giant to the point where their focus has been on killing the unborn and dealing in dangerous puberty-blocking drugs for minors. Planned Parenthood alarmingly received $700 million in taxpayer dollars in 2023. But where does all that money go? To help low-income patients? If they’re defrauding Medicaid, aren’t they stealing from the very low-income people they claim comprises the majority of their clients?
If Planned Parenthood is defunded in South Carolina, pro-abortion allies claim these folks will have nowhere to go. Really? There are two Planned Parenthood abortion/transing centers in South Carolina. That’s two too many, of course. There are over 200 taxpayer-funded community health centers throughout the state that provide a far wider scope of real healthcare.
Planned Parenthood, of course, is arguing that individuals receiving Medicaid get to decide the provider of their choice (no matter how incompetent or corrupt the provider may be). But the state gets to decide which entities are qualified. And South Carolina has rightfully deemed Planned Parenthood unqualified for state Medicaid funding.
Medicaid funds nearly 42% of all births nationwide, according to the agency’s website. It’s a major source of prenatal care funding. Prenatal care, inarguably, significantly helps reduce maternal mortality. Not one of the Planned Parenthood South Atlantic centers spread throughout West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, provides any prenatal care. Sure, their website falsely claims they do (here, here and here) but false advertising is what they do. (I’m sure that’s a violation of South Carolina’s Unfair Trade Practices law.) Across the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, prenatal care is less than 0.1% of their total medical services. I guess it makes sense if you believe what Planned Parenthood is selling — women no longer exist. The same leftist organization that has largely erased the term ”women” from their website and vernacular, is the same one claiming pregnant people need them.
So, few women go to Planned Parenthood. Over the past several years, Planned Parenthood’s customer base has dwindled by hundreds of thousands even though they continue to increase their storehouse of taxpayer dollars by the hundreds of millions annually. Currently, they (allegedly) only serve 2.05 million clients. Let’s assume all those individuals are women. Out of an estimated 106.3 million women of reproductive age in America, that’s 1.9% of that population being “served” by the activist organization. If (and when) defunded, their customer base can easily be absorbed by real healthcare systems. Women deserve so much better than the sham known as Planned Parenthood.
Even the radically leftist New York Times shockingly admits in a scathing article entitled “Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis”: “Over the last five years, the national office has distributed more than $899 million to affiliates to help them deliver care, but none of it went directly to medical services.” One billion dollars shelled out to its affiliates, and the NY Times says none of it went to actual healthcare. It did go to politics though. That’s Planned Parenthood’s bread and butter. According to their own annual report, they spent $263.5 million in lobbying, fundraising, and advertising in 2023. Taxpayers are paying for their propaganda. Their CEO, Alexis McGill-Can’t-Tell-The-Truth-Johnson, also gets paid nearly $1 million in her annual salary to champion the misinformation and convert it into a massive profit: $179 million.
Planned Parenthood killed 392,715 unrepeatable human beings in that same year.
Americans don’t want their hard-earned dollars used to exploit women and snuff out defenseless human lives. Medicaid is barred from funding abortion except in the rarest of cases (less than 1% of all abortions) due to rape, incest and threat to the physical life of the mother. Even in those cases, our strength as a society is in how we compassionately save the most vulnerable, not in how we callously sacrifice them. The circumstances of our conception never change the condition of our worth. I’m one of those lives spared from the violence of abortion. I was conceived in rape but adopted in love (watch the video here). It’s why I’m fighting for the exploited and the most victimized as the emcee in this week’s historic rally at the Supreme Court.
Planned Parenthood mutilates human lives in and out of the womb. No state, no taxpayer, no one should be forced to fund their violent activism. Let’s be a society that chooses health, not harm.
Ryan Bomberger is the Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of The Radiance Foundation. He is happily married to his best friend, Bethany, who is the Executive Director of Radiance. They are adoptive parents with four awesome kiddos. Ryan is an Emmy Award-winning creative professional, factivist, international public speaker and author of NOT EQUAL: CIVIL RIGHTS GONE WRONG. He loves illuminating that every human life has purpose.
