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Contact: Leslie Palma
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WASHINGTON. D.C. -- Priests for Life continues to help lead effort to protect tax money from funding abortion
Priests for Life, and its clergy and lay supporters around the nation, call today on Congress to end all funding of the abortion procedure and of the abortion industry, including the largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, a criminal enterprise.
National Director Frank Pavone and Executive Director Janet Morana are part of a coalition of national pro-life leaders who have signed several joint statements to members of Congress and their staffs to explain why it is crucial to fully defund abortion.
As we posted on X last night, the next few weeks will be marked by increased activity, following on the heels of a joint letter to Congress that was drafted at a meeting of national leaders at Priests for Life headquarters last month, and a second letter sent yesterday that urged Congress to use the budget reconciliation process to cut off Medicaid funding to abortion sellers.
Priests for Life will organize, in the coming weeks, an effort to invite citizens to visit the local offices of their representatives and senators to lobby for these goals.
According to its annual report for 2022-2023, Planned Parenthood received $699 million from the government, the majority in Medicaid reimbursement.
“We want the reconciliation process to include cutting off abortion funding. We also support the several bills that have been introduced this session that would protect Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars from being used to kill children and maim mothers,” Pavone said.
He mentioned, as examples, H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025, H.R. 271, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act that would strip the organization of all federal funding for one year, and H.R. 272, the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act, which calls for any entity that receives federal funds to certify that they will not provide abortions, with certain exceptions.
“A teenager in Colorado died after an abortion at Planned Parenthood last month, and we know from a rare expose of the organization that it spends more money fighting laws to protect babies and their moms than on training employees or providing ‘care’ to women who come to them in crisis,” Ms. Morana said. “This criminal enterprise does not deserve one penny of our tax revenue.”
Ms. Morana and Pavone will call on Priests for Life supporters in the coming weeks to visit or call the local offices of their U.S. House and Senate members to urge action on defunding the abortion industry.
“With President Trump in the White House and a pro-life majority in the House and Senate, now is the time to get the U.S. government out of the abortion business,” Pavone said.
“Mothers and babies deserve better than abortion,” Ms. Morana said.