Cutting away at nation's largest abortion provider
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Planned Parenthood is not happy with President-Elect Trump's newly-proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), aimed at exposing fraudulent and wasteful spending across federal agencies.
One day after DOGE chiefs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy published their intent to cut hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from the abortion giant's budget, its president, Alexis McGill Johnson, lashed out at the men in charge:
"President-elect Trump isn't nominating leaders, he is surrounding himself with unqualified fanboys and agents of chaos. Musk and Ramaswamy are making clear how they intend to use their power: denying people care and wreaking havoc on our public health system, of which Planned Parenthood is an integral part – all in the name of supposed 'government efficiency.'"
McGill Johnson's name-calling – and defense of the baby-murdering organization she heads – came in response to the op-ed Musk and Ramaswamy published in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
TWO-FRONT ATTACK
In the article, the DOGE duo laid out their two-front attack, designed to deliver cost savings relief for taxpayers.
First, Musk and Ramaswamy believe Trump can "tame" federal spending through executive action despite the 1974 Impoundment Control Act. which bars the president from stopping expenditures authorized by Congress. "Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question," they argue.
But executive orders aside, they say DOGE intends to "help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended."
As they explain in the article, they have their sights on "the nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood." Also under their scrutiny is the "$535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations."
For pro-life Americans, DOGE's stated intentions to cut taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood is coming none too soon given the non-profit's reign of growing terror.
Since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) estimates that more than 63 million abortions have been performed in the United States
And just when pro-lifers thought the abortion giant's operations could become no more heinous, new revelations prove otherwise.
Documents have recently come to light through the efforts of The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) lead by David Daleiden, renowned pro-life advocate and ethicist, that testify to Planned Parenthood's profiting from organ harvesting of murdered unborn babies.
The never-before-seen documents show that Planned Parenthood is supplying viable fetuses up to 23 months old [6 months] to the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation. (The majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.)
The documents further expose the abortion giant's quid pro quo sale of so-called "proprietary" "fetal material" in exchange for the "valuable consideration" of owning any "patents" and "intellectual property" developed as a result of experimenting with them.
In emails also uncovered by CMP, a harvesting worker writes, "[A]ny sample [unborn baby] greater than about 12.5w[eeks] requires the use of a dilating medication which is given to the patients 3 hours ahead of their procedure."
Speaking to the ethical and legal ramifications of latest discoveries of Planned Parenthood's deeds, Daleiden says:
"The University of California's documents show Planned Parenthood using labor-inducing chemical abortion drugs to deliver viable, healthy preemies with ultrasound-documented heartbeats in their taxpayer-funded abortion factories. These are not just the federal crimes of partial-birth abortion and selling body parts, but also of murder for hire ..."
Indeed, the transfer of any aborted human fetal tissue for "valuable consideration" is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000, according to US Code.
TRUMP'S FIRST-TERM EFFORTS
President Trump attempted to defang Planned Parenthood during his first presidency (2017-2021). Included among his several attempts to stand up to the behemoth are the following:
As one of his first presidential acts, Trump signed the Mexico City policy which prohibited international aid funds to groups that promote or provide abortions. The International Planned Parenthood Federation and the British abortion chain Marie Stopes International both felt the sting of Trump's signature to the tune of millions of US taxpayer's dollars.
The Trump administration also halted funding later in 2017 to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an organization linked to forced abortions. The administration pointed out that the UNFPA "partners on family planning activities with the Chinese government agency responsible for these coercive policies" which involves the CCP's still current two-child limit.
In 2018, Health and Human Services announced the Protect Life Rule which would disentangle taxpayer dollars from funding abortion. The money could then be funneled to comprehensive family health and planning centers that don't perform abortions and that make clear that abortion is not healthcare, a lie Planned Parenthood perpetuates. President Trump enacted the new Title X rule in 2019.
Many of Trump's efforts to curb Planned Parenthood's national and international reach during his first term were resisted by its powerful team of lawyers or undone by the subsequent radically pro-abortion Biden administration.
Judging from social media posts like the following, many are supportive – and hopeful – that DOGE's efforts will help Trump do during his second term what he could not codify in his first.
"The government of the USA has no right to fund planned parenthood. It should have never been funded in the first place. This is evil. Murdering babies is one of the ultimate evils."
"These people are evil murderers and should be prosecuted. They should have been defunded in Trump's first term. They are disgusting. I hope they cease to exist."
"Yes! Save the unborn babies!"
"This [DOGE's success] would be glorious. Please let it be true. Lord, please let it be true. In Jesus' name please. Amen."
Trump has explained that DOGE "will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform."
He added that Musk and Ramaswamy's work will be completed "no later than July 4, 2026."
In the WSJ article, the duo commented on the termination date saying, "There is no better birthday gift to our nation on its 250th anniversary than to deliver a federal government that would make our Founders proud."
Dr. Barbara Toth has a doctorate in rhetoric and composition from Bowling Green State University. She has taught at universities in the US, China and Saudi Arabia. Her work in setting up a writing center at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahmen University, an all-women's university in Riyadh, has been cited in American journals. Toth has published academic and non-academic articles and poems internationally.