This is Part 1 of a two-part series examining the federal government’s support of Planned Parenthood under the guise of “family planning.”
The federal government pours tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into pro-abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood every year, a Daily Citizen investigation reveals, using Title X “family planning” grants.
The loophole effectively allows presidential administrations to violate the Hyde Amendment, a congressional spending restriction prohibiting taxes from funding or enabling elective abortions.
Title X is a federal grant program supporting “comprehensive family planning and related health services.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) distributes Title X money to organizations that provide “contraceptive services, supplies and information.”
HHS’ oversight gives the executive branch substantial authority to determine whether pro-abortion organizations can qualify for Title X funds. Under pro-abortion presidential administrations, Planned Parenthood has received hundreds of millions of Title X dollars.
Between fiscal years 2017 and 2025, HHS promised to pay $156.9 million to Planned Parenthood entities through 91 different grants. More than 80% ($126.3 million) of this money paid out of two funding buckets associated with Title X — Family Planning Services and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs.
But the abortion conglomerate, worth some $2.9 billion, hit a snag in 2019, when President Trump issued a rule requiring Title X-funded organizations to:
Refrain from referring women to get abortions;
“Maintain strict physical and financial separation from abortion services.”
The rule cost Planned Parenthood entities millions in taxpayer money. Between 2019 and 2021, the federal government owed the group a cumulative $20.9 million — significantly less than the $29.4 million promised in 2017 alone.
“The new rule forced Planned Parenthood health centers, along with many others, to withdraw from the Title X program,” the group complained, implicitly admitting it had previously mixed abortion services with federally-funded activities.
The Biden administration rescinded Trump’s Title X rule in 2021, allowing Planned Parenthood to continue gobbling taxpayer money. HHS paid the abortion giant more than $53.7 million in Title X grants between 2022 and 2025. Another $12.4 million is scheduled to pay out by June 2028.
Money is fungible; even if Planned Parenthood doesn’t use Title X money to fund abortions directly, the grants free up unregulated funds to perform and promote them.
What’s more, the 2021 HHS rule allows Planned Parenthood and its ilk to treat vulnerable women as sources of income.
Abortion providers make money by referring women to get abortions. In its most recent financial disclosures, Planned Parenthood reports raking in $383.3 million in between July 2023 and July 2024.
President Trump began reestablishing his pro-life legacy just days after starting his second term. On January 24, he issued two orders plugging some federal funding streams to elective abortions.
The first order reinstated the Mexico City policy, which stops the federal government from funding organizations that support or enable elective abortions abroad. The second revoked two executive actions from the Biden administration — one defining abortion as “healthcare” and the other “protecting…and promoting” access to abortions domestically.
The Daily Citizen supports any executive action that defunds abortion. To truly halt taxpayer-funded abortion, however, HHS must reinstate President Trump’s 2019 Title X rules.
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