July 3, 2025
ONE BIG TAKEAWAY FROM THE ONE BIG BILL: Planned Parenthood Can be Fired!
Students for Life Action Calls the Newly Passed Budget Bill Headed to President Trump’s Desk “the First of Many Bad Days for Planned Parenthood to Come … with our Help”
“For years, we’ve said that forced taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood & Big Abortion could end, arguing with our political friends and enemies that being good at paperwork doesn’t make Planned Parenthood qualified for anything. Never again should we need to make that case. The Supreme Court, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, and, soon, we believe President Trump, will all have agreed with the Pro-Life Generation that Planned Parenthood can go fund themselves,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “It’s disappointing that rather than a 10-year stop in funding, we have only a one-year pause. But that one year shows that the one thing Planned Parenthood most fears can happen. Now, we all know that it’s possible to tell them, YOU’RE FIRED.”
WASHINGTON D.C. (07-03-2025) – As the U.S. House passed for the last time the 2025 “Big, Beautiful” Budget Bill,Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins noted that when President Trump signs the bill, pro-life Americans will have won an important point. “This is the first of many bad days for Planned Parenthood to come … with our help. We have definitive proof that their choice to profit by sterilizing gender-confused minors and killing innocent life in the womb doesn’t have to include a paycheck signed by American Taxpayers. We choose to fire them. This Fourth of July we will celebrate that Americans have finally won independence over forced abortion industry funding. However, the one-year pause in funding means that the ink won’t even be dry on the bill before we have to get to work to finish the job.”
MEDIA NOTE: Work will need to begin right away to organize for a continuation of this redirect – sending scarce taxpayer resources to life-affirming healthcare – and away from abortion vendors like Planned Parenthood. Follow Students for Life Action & Kristan Hawkins for next steps.
“A One-Year Pause in forced taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood means that right as the midterm elections are underway, we will have to have this debate again. But for a more permanent change, debarment is the right next step,” said Hawkins. “Even the U.S. Senate Parliamentarian, who had too big a role in this process, can’t think that a discredited vendor must be paid.”
LEARN MORE: Can the Trump Administration Tell Planned Parenthood YOU’RE FIRED? Understanding How to Debar & Defund the Abortion Giant
SFLAction has called for Planned Parenthood to be debarred since the end of the last Trump Administration. Any federal agency can examine Planned Parenthood’s track record to determine whether they deserve federal resources. In fact, during the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the nation’s largest abortion vendor argued that the state of South Carolina had to do business with the disreputable abortion mega-business because they were “qualified” by the government standards.
READ FULL ANALYSIS HERE: The Pro-Life Observation and Conclusion in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
“Being good at paperwork should not ‘qualify’ a business profiting from ending children’s lives in the womb and ending other children’s fertility after birth. Their obsession with cutting off a child’s life disqualifies them, but add to that, their horrific track record,” said Hawkins.
Even the New York Times says they have been shoddy abortion vendors, in a February story titled, Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis.
Senators Joni Ernst and Rand Paul have called for investigation into almost $90M in COVID Paycheck Relief funds that are alleged to have been improperly given to the abortion vendor, which did NOT qualify for the funds.
Planned Parenthood has faced charges of allowing a racist work environment, financial fraud, failures to report sex crimes, and failing to follow commonsense health & safety standards.
And debarment is not a Republican invention. Democratic Senators acknowledge that reports of misdeeds mean a debarment investigation needs to get underway.
As we’ve written before: “In a 2022 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., demanded that the Department of Justice (DOJ) get busy with debarment activities.
“They wrote: ‘Agencies possess broad authority to suspend and debar individuals and entities that engage in criminal conduct or pose a risk to the public interest. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) permits an agency to debar an entity if it is convicted of or receives a civil judgment for ‘any … offense indicating a lack of business integrity or business honesty.’ An agency can also debar an entity based on just a ‘preponderance of the evidence’ for ‘any other cause so serious or compelling a nature that it affects the present responsibility of the contractor or subcontractor.’ Before or while a debarment is being considered, agencies can suspend a contractor if there is ‘adequate evidence’ that suspension is necessary to protect the government’s interests. Agencies also have a wide latitude to link contracting companies to the misconduct of any of their employees – including top company executives – as long as the misconduct ‘occurred in connection with the individual’s performance of duties for or on behalf of the contractor, or with the contractor’s knowledge, approval, or acquiescence.’”
Hawkins noted, “Let us say again; This letter is a template for the authority of a Trump-Vance Administration to act, given the misdeeds of Planned Parenthood.”
READ MORE: The Agency To Do List for Those Who Don’t Want Federal Entanglement with Abortion
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The Pro-Life Generation (PLG) is an umbrella organization encompassing the most-cutting edge engagement opportunities for a Vote Pro-Life First Community. PLG includes Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), that together make up the nation’s largest, pro-life youth organization, managing a grassroots political and policy operation engaging Americans of all ages but with a special emphasis on the largest segment of voters — the Youth Vote. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, PLG/SFLA/SFLAction serves more than 1,500 groups on middle, high school, college, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. Our team has more conversations with this generation targeted by the abortion lobby than any other pro-life operation in the world, each week reaching more than 4 million across social media platforms and averaging 1.3 million video views. In addition to SFLA/SFLAction, PLG leads multiple initiatives to lead and serve the future of the pro-life movement including the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities, Standing With You, and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement. Over more than 17 years, PLG CEO Kristan Hawkins has grown the operation into a nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.