President Donald Trump’s plans to prevent Planned Parenthood from pocketing Title X family planning grants must have the abortion giant’s leadership reaching for their inhalers. That’s just a tiny piece of the taxpayer funding pie, however.  And we are at the beginning of a vital process in redirecting scarce tax dollars from life-ending abortion vendors instead into life-saving help for the preborn and their mothers.  

Many American taxpayers are unaware that their earnings become blood money funding the infrastructure that leads to 1,076 preborn deaths a day committed by Planned Parenthood.  

READ: Blood Money: Our Federal Tax Dollars Support Abortion   

Let’s break down exactly where Planned Parenthood seizes taxpayer money from and how redirecting it would save lives and deal a mission-critical blow to America’s dirtiest business.  

Students for Life of America (SFLA) has extensively reported on the nearly $700 million in American taxpayer money that went to Planned Parenthood last year, according to the abortion giant’s most recent annual report.    

Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report said that almost $700 million– 34% of its overall revenue – came from taxpayers. The money comes in through reimbursements and grants, and over the years, that’s really added up.   

In its ground-breaking 2022 report, Family Research Council released America’s Direct Deposit to Planned Parenthood, noting: ‘Since 1993, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, has reported carrying out 7,442,666 abortions, all while receiving over 10.35 billion in total taxpayer funding.'” Emphasis added.   

Based on federal and state funding structures and historical data, that enormous quantity of money comes primarily from three sources.    

#1: Medicaid Reimbursements   

Medicaid dollars encompass the largest portion of the taxpayers’ money that Planned Parenthood has pulled out of true healthcare coverage. “Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for some people with limited income and resources,” notes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which hands out a lot of the money.  

Think about that for a minute. A program designed to offer medical care for those in need has been hijacked by Planned Parenthood. Even the left-leaning New York Times reports they are bad at their chosen profession (and have been for years). Yet, their fingerprints remain all over government checks. 

As part of a review of funds spent from 2019 through 2022, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) affiliates received about $1.54 billion in Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) payments.  

That money could have gone to full service medical providers, like Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which offer a full spectrum of actual healthcare services to underserved populations, as opposed to Planned Parenthood whose primary business is abortion and gender-related mutilation. They’re infamous for getting cute with the math, but ~97% of Planned Parenthood’s “services” to pregnant women are abortion. 

Thanks to the 1977 Hyde Amendment, Medicaid can’t “directly” fund abortions, except in cases of rape and incest, or when the mother’s life is deemed to be in danger. But the well-informed citizen knows that money is fungible. Giving Planned Parenthood millions and saying, “Ok, now don’t use this to abort babies,” means the abortion facility directors throw a wink at the government and use our money to pay their personnel, electric bills, rent, disposal of baby bodies, etc. In short – even without direct payments, the money keeps abortion businesses in business.  

Not to mention, former Planned Parenthood facility directors like Abby Johnson have noted from firsthand experience that no one polices abortion businesses (not even for safety, let alone finances), and by the time a government check arrives to a Planned Parenthood affiliate, they just throw all the money in one big pile and use it as they please. 

That’s why redirecting the funds to actual healthcare providers must be prioritized. 

Panic Point for Planned Parenthood: In early April 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic arguments encompassing two key issues: (1) Does the Medicaid Act create a “right” or “entitlement” to healthcare because it compassionately offers a benefit to the poor? and (2) Can the beneficiaries pick any provider they want with the taxpayer funds?  

In the case, a woman – acting as a surrogate for Planned Parenthood’s interests – argued the money was hers to spend at Planned Parenthood, while the state of South Carolina argued they could decide who was a qualified Medicaid provider.  

States, such as South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi, have all tried to block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements to no avail, which is why the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic remains significant. If the U.S. Supreme Court justices come together as a majority in favor of South Carolina, it sets a precedent for pro-life states (and hopefully, ultimately, the federal government) to cut Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid money.    

Women and families who need the financial help offered by Medicaid will still have it. It’s the abortionists who will be out in the cold. 

READ: The Pro-Life Observation and Conclusion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic   

No one should have the “right” to kill preborn children, an absolute disqualification for those looking for a handout for taxpayer money. Redirecting healthcare dollars to those who save lives represents a clear goal for the programs now under review. 

#2: Title X Grants    

“A grant is a way the government funds your ideas and projects to provide public services and stimulate the economy,” notes Grants.gov, and generally they don’t have to be repaid. And some grant programs have been around for a while.  

In 1969, then-President Richard Nixon wanted Congress to set up funds for “family planning” and contraception for low-income people, leading to the Public Health Services Act of 1944 being revised into a program now known as Title X. 

Title X funds are meant to contribute to so-called “family planning” services, such as contraception, STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings, and pregnancy counseling. For years, Planned Parenthood has exploited Title X and applied a workaround, using Title X as a marketing tool to get women in the door with one sale (birth control, STI tests, or a pregnancy test) while pushing their big-ticket item (abortion).    

Kaiser Family Foundation reports that “$20.6 million goes to grants directly from the Trump Administration to Planned Parenthood” for the program. Some of the breakdown by region can be seen in reporting from the Office of Population Affairs (OASH).  

The fact that Planned Parenthood “plans” families by executing preborn children doesn’t seem to be lost on the Trump Administration, which has reportedly planned to cut off Title X funds to the abortion giant, according to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal.    

Panic Point for Planned Parenthood: With Title X funds previously propping up personnel and infrastructure costs as well as allowed abortion vendors to push their money maker when selling contraception, that loss will have a real impact on Planned Parenthood’s bottom line. Consider that already in Michigan, Planned Parenthood announced plans to close some of their locations, in light of spending freezes.  

#3: State Grants & Funding   

State governments can also provide grants or other funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates. The amount Planned Parenthood affiliates rake in at the state level per year has been difficult to calculate. However, we can look at some available reporting to illustrate how even state governments can be wasting our resources. 

For example:  

Tennessee’s capital, Nashville, through the Metro Council, gave a $500,000 grant to Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi for “sexual health education.” 

California once set aside $8 million in the “Clinic Lifeline Grant Program” funds “to bridge the gap between federal funding and new future funding.”  

Connecticut passed a bill this year that “includes $800,000 in funding to Planned Parenthood of Southern New England” so that they can stockpile Chemical Abortion Pills.  

Illinois gave “$2 Million in Training Grants” to organizations, including Planned Parenthood, so they can sell “access to the training and mentorship” about ending life by intentional abortion.  

That’s only the beginning. That’s only the short list. 

Abortion funding acts like a cancer throughout federal and likely state funds, draining life-affirming resources and corrupting programs.  

Students for Life Action analysis shows a number of programs tainted with abortion inserted as an ugly mandate, from using federal lands for abortion to upending an international program designed to help people with the deadly AIDS virus to push abortion instead. 

Panic Point for Planned Parenthood: The DOGE mandate of opening long-closed accounting books will likely change the game on abortion. Imagine the chaos for Big Abortion when taxpayers start asking for a real review of how much money is wasted on them.  Planned Parenthood would be wise to start preparing to go fund itself. 

Those interested in actually helping poor women can rest assured that things are looking promising for our elected officials to stop funneling our money into an abortion monopoly and start giving it to actual healthcare institutions instead. Congress must begin the process of debarring and defunding Planned Parenthood. 

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