{"id":33090,"date":"2025-01-12T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=33090"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:24:01","slug":"pro-abortion-media-subsidize-planned-parenthood-instead-of-childrens-births","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/pro-abortion-media-subsidize-planned-parenthood-instead-of-childrens-births\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion media: ‘Subsidize Planned Parenthood Instead of children’s births"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Carole Novielli, originally published December 30, 2024, LiveAction.org<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico Nightly is flaunting a 2015 report<\/a>, claiming that it proves that defunding Planned Parenthood would cost the taxpayer 130 million additional dollars over the course of ten years because, according to the media outlet, \u201csubsidizing birth control is far cheaper than subsidizing births.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is that there are many legitimate health care clinics that do not end the lives<\/em> of preborn children.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cSubsidizing birth control far cheaper than subsidizing births\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Politico Nightly report<\/a> entitled \u201cThe DOGE plan that could cost millions\u201d began, \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s close allies are sharpening their knives, eager to carve up the federal budget when they take power in January. And while much of what they will target for elimination remains a mystery, the shrink-the-government brigade has openly taken up a longstanding battle cry of social conservatives: defunding Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It continued, \u201cElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of the vaguely defined \u2018Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE<\/a>]\u2019 that will be recommending cuts to the Trump administration, wrote in a November op-ed<\/a> that they will \u2018help end federal overspending by taking aim at\u2019 an array of programs, and specifically called out \u2018nearly $300 million [going] to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the last time there was a concerted push on Capitol Hill to strip funding from Planned Parenthood, the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] calculated<\/a> that doing so would actually cost the government more than it saved \u2014 $130 million over 10 years to be exact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that the CBO report is dated September 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCBO found that eliminating the taxpayer dollars the group receives through Medicaid, the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program and the Title X family planning program \u2014 none of which can be used for abortions under longstanding federal law \u2014 would save about $520 million over a decade, but cost about $650 million,\u201d Politico Nightly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s because \u2018as much as 25 percent of the estimated 2.6 million clients served by Planned Parenthood would face reduced access to care,\u2019 the nonpartisan office said, particularly \u2018services that help women avert pregnancies,\u2019 meaning \u2018the number of births in the Medicaid program would increase by several thousand per year,’\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here is the kicker, that the report allegedly pointed to (emphases added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEssentially, subsidizing birth control is far cheaper than subsidizing births<\/strong><\/em>, so the cost of funding Planned Parenthood would be passed on \u2014 and surpassed \u2014 by the increased cost of funding Medicaid. CBO found that the Planned Parenthood patients who would be most affected by the cuts \u2018reside in areas without access to other health care clinics or medical practitioners who serve low-income populations<\/em><\/strong>,’\u201d Politico Nightly shamefully added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBO may have claimed that Planned Parenthood boasted 2.6 million clients in 2015 but its annual report showed far less. And, as Live Action News has documented year after year, clients, facilities, and services have decreased at the abortion corporation, while abortion, taxpayer funding, and \u201cprofit\u201d have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 16, 2015, in response to proposed legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, a CBO<\/a> analysis found that Planned Parenthood received approximately $450 million annually in federal<\/u><\/strong> funding alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBO broke the estimated $450 million in federal funding down to two main sources \u2014 Medicaid and Title X:<\/p>\n\n\n\n