CV NEWS FEED // Vice-presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance has said that in a second term of office President Donald Trump would defund Planned Parenthood, calling the former president’s view on the matter “consistent.”
Asked on October 5 by Real Clear Politics if a second Trump administration would defund the abortion giant, Vance replied,
On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean, our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around. It will remain a consistent view.
During his first term, through an update to the Title X federal family planning program, Trump’s policy effectively prohibited taxpayer funding from going to healthcare providers who actively promoted or partnered with the abortion industry, thereby excluding Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer dollars. At the time, pro-life leaders praised the decision to pull federal funding from the abortion industry giant.
However, in 2021, President Joe Biden reversed the ban, returning some $60 million in annual funding to Planned Parenthood, as CatholicVote reported at the time.
With millions of dollars from the federal government, Planned Parenthood committed 392,715 abortions between 2022 and 2023, according to its most recent annual report.
Pro-life advocates have also argued that the rule ought not to have been a subject of controversy, as it was the logical extension of the longstanding policy against taxpayer funding of abortions known as the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment, which was attached willingly to all spending bills on a bipartisan basis from 1976 until Biden took office in 2021, prohibits the direct funding of abortions with taxpayer dollars.
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Trump’s position on abortion has pro-life leaders frustrated that the former champion of the sanctity of life has now distanced himself from a strong pro-life platform, even voicing pro-abortion policies, such as support for abortion pills by mail and vetoing a federal abortion ban should it appear on his desk.
During last week’s Vice Presidential debate, former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social in all caps that he “would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it.”
The former President went on to condemn late-term abortions as the “democrats radical position” and infanticide, which often occurs with a live birth after an attempted abortion, as “execution of the baby after birth.”
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As CatholicVote reported, the former First Lady Melania Trump last week outraged pro-lifers with reports about a new book to be released October 8, in which she unapologetically defends a “fundamental right” of a woman to an abortion whenever she wishes, including a late-term abortion.