{"id":2635427,"date":"2026-07-25T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-needs-to-defund-planned-parenthood-once-and-for-all\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:07:01","slug":"congress-needs-to-defund-planned-parenthood-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-needs-to-defund-planned-parenthood-once-and-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Needs to Defund Planned Parenthood Once and For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-needs-to-defund-planned-parenthood-once-and-for-all%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2635427&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses former U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar&#8217;s recent claim that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms, a statement that is factually incorrect. In reality, Planned Parenthood offers referrals for mammograms but does not perform them in-house, conducting only a small percentage of breast exams. Critics argue that some politicians and supporters misrepresent Planned Parenthood\u2019s services to defend its funding, wich primarily comes from taxpayers and is focused on abortion services. The association has also expanded its offerings to include hormonal contraception, gender-affirming treatments, and other reproductive health services, raising concerns among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-remember-the-48th-annual-march-for-life\/\" title=\"Americans remember the 48th annual March for Life\">pro-life advocates<\/a>. These opponents emphasize efforts to defund Planned Parenthood due to its involvement in abortion practices and associated controversial treatments, criticizing the organization\u2019s broader services and its influence on public health policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Amy Klobuchar recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amyklobuchar\/status\/2076086699034091973?s=20\">claimed<\/a> that Planned Parenthood offers the lifesaving service of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/statement-planned-parenthood-senior-director-medical-services-breast-health-services\">mammograms<\/a> for women. The Democratic senator from Minnesota is wrong about that,\u00a0since Planned Parenthood offers no such service, only referrals for them \u2014 but it does provide an in-house service that took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/uploads\/filer_public\/cf\/d0\/cfd08bf5-480a-45da-bb38-c989e9647492\/digital-2025-ppfa-annualreport-c3.pdf\">434,450 lives<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>The primary business of Planned Parenthood is abortion, the killing of babies, which many Republican lawmakers have worked tirelessly to defund over the decades. To keep the taxpayer dollars flowing, the radical progressives in Congress, such as Klobuchar, who are defenders and supporters of the organization, will <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >happily spew misleading information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, fewer than 3% of the breast exams performed at Planned Parenthood resulted in a mammogram referral, which was once revealed in a congressional hearing. \u201cA report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2012\/10\/planned-parenthood-and-mammograms\/\">concluded<\/a> that supporters should stop claiming Planned Parenthood \u2018provides\u2019 mammograms because the wording falsely suggests the organization directly performs the imaging,\u201d The Post Millennial <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/klobuchar-brags-about-planned-parenthood-mammograms-despite-them-not-offering-any-such-service\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Klobuchar\u2019s messaging conveniently ignores this at the same time Planned Parenthood has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/endorsements\">endorsed<\/a> her reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are now expressing outrage as the expiration date for blocking Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood came and went on July 4 \u2014 a ban that Congress failed to renew. The defunding of Planned Parenthood originally passed under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but the provision only lasted a year. Now, the abortion giant will once again <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5952223-planned-parenthood-regains-funding\/\">receive funding<\/a> for all non-abortion services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first year of the Trump administration, it looked like we might get a down payment on what we had wanted for so long. \u2026 But in a twist of irony, America celebrated its 250th anniversary by turning back on the spigot for $800 million in taxpayer funding through Medicare for Planned Parenthood,\u201d Quena Gonz\u00e1lez, senior director of Government Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. \u201cWe have faced the indignity of watching our tax dollars being spent to subsidize Big Abortion. Pro-life voters turned out enthusiastically in 2024 to re-elect a pro-life president and pro-life majorities in the House and Senate, hoping to put an end to this injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Planned Parenthood is widely known as America\u2019s leading abortion business, it provides a plethora of additional sinister services as well. Planned Parenthood is a major dispenser of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rosenfield-left-has-abandoned-health-care-as-human-right-for-unvaccinated\/\" title=\"Rosenfield: Left Has Abandoned Health Care as &#039;Human Right&#039; for Unvaccinated\">hormonal birth control<\/a> that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6055351\/\">linked to infertility<\/a>, as well <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9218393\/\">as anxiety and depression.<\/a> To receive birth control, a woman is not required to have an appointment. \u201cGet birth control pills delivered to your door!\u201d Planned Parenthood advertises on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/learn\/birth-control\">website<\/a>. \u201cWith the Planned Parenthood Direct app, you\u2019ll have unlimited access to our expert doctors and nurses. It\u2019s reproductive health care anytime, anywhere \u2014 no appointment needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood also states that it provides various drugs and \u201ccare\u201d to affirm gender dysphoria disorders. \u201cWe offer services to transgender women, transgender men, and nonbinary people,\u201d reads the online description. According to the organization, the services include \u201cestrogen and anti-androgen hormone therapy, testosterone hormone therapy, puberty blockers, surgery referrals,\u201d as well as \u201csocial and legal transition support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a leading supplier of the mifepristone abortion pill, Gonz\u00e1lez went on to contend that Planned Parenthood\u2019s funding must be stopped in order to protect women from the harms of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have worked hard at the state and federal level to pass protections for the unborn that recognize the dignity and needs of the mothers who carry them. And we are working today to end the horrific practice of sending abortion drugs through the mail to abuser, pimps, and men who don\u2019t want to step up and support their offspring and the women they\u2019ve used,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe marched, we worked, we lobbied, and we built a network of thousands of crisis pregnancy clinics across the country, staffed with love and supported by private donations. The time for delay in half measures is over,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez asserted. \u201cCongress should at a minimum remove Planned Parenthood\u2019s for another year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><em>Quinn Delamater is a reporter for The Washington Stand.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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