{"id":323432,"date":"2024-12-30T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323432"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:52:12","slug":"planned-parenthood-defund-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-defund-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion media: ‘Subsidize Planned Parenthood instead of children’s births’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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, “subsidizing birth control is far cheaper than subsidizing births.”<\/p>\n

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

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Politico Nightly report rushes to thwart Planned Parenthood defund effort<\/p><\/div>\n

“Subsidizing birth control far cheaper than subsidizing births”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Politico Nightly report<\/a>, entitled “The DOGE plan that could cost millions,” claimed that “President-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.”<\/p>\n

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

“But 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.”<\/p>\n

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

“CBO 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,” Politico Nightly said.<\/p>\n

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

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

“Essentially, 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 ‘reside in areas without access to other health care clinics or medical practitioners who serve low-income populations<\/em><\/strong>,'” Politico Nightly shamefully added.<\/p>\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 “profit” have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

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The last time there was a push to strip funding from Planned Parenthood, the CBO calculated that doing so would cost the government more than it saved. Nightly reports \ud83d\udc47https:\/\/t.co\/O1WZJ3Iyqs<\/a><\/p>\n

— POLITICO (@politico) December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n