The provision of the MEDICAID Senate for suppliers of abortions remains in the bill

The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth Macdonough, would have indicated that a provision prohibiting Medicaid funds from supporting Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide abortions can remain in the “big and beautiful bill” of President Donald Trump.

Friday, the Republicans of the Senate revised the provision to block the funding of Medicaid to the suppliers of abortion for 10 years at only a year. The evaluation of the parliamentarian according to which the provision could remain without compromising the budgetary package of the transmission of the upper chamber of the congress along the parties of the party was defended by pro-life defenders.

“The Big Beautiful Bill Act which stops the forced funding of taxpayers of the abortion industry was preserved in the Senate bill, because we were convinced, although for a year. It is a huge victory,” said Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Taxpayers should never be forced to channel their dollars hard earned to a large abortion. This funding currently reaches nearly $ 800 million per year.”

The inclusion of the provision, on the other hand, was condemned by Democrats as essentially eraaring the financing of Planned Parenthood.

“The Republicans will not stop in their crusade to take control of the women’s bodies and refuse them the right to make their own health care decisions,” said the member of the Senate Committee Finance Ron Wyden, D-ear., And the member of the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Merkley, D-ear., Said in a statement. “Republicans trample the law to force their extremist ideology on the American people.”

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Planned Parenthood on Newtown Road in Virginia Beach on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Kendall Warner / The Virginian-Pilot / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The Hyde amendment, introduced in the 1970s, for a long time prohibited federal dollars from paying most of the abortions, with a few exceptions. Planned Parenthood, which also provides other women’s health services, such as gynecological examinations, contraception and IST tests, said it received around $ 792.2 million in grants funded by taxpayers, contracts and Medicaid reimbursements during the year 2023-2024.

Republicans say that the escape mainly leads to subsidized taxpayers of abortions. Planned Parenthood declared to carry out 402,000 abortions during this exercise.

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Defended the provision during the Monday voting session A-Rama as “establishing a good sense of dollars of taxpayers by prohibiting suppliers of abortions to receive Medicaid funds for a year”.

“There was a time when the protection of the American taxes against the support of the abortion industry was a non-partisan and non-partisan effort that we could all take,” said Hyde-Smith on the Senate soil. “Even if we had opposite opinions on the protection of the dignity of human life, this provision does not target any entity. If a medical supplier wishes to remain in the Medicaid program, he should simply reduce the procedures for elective abortion of his services.”

Hyde-Smith, president of the Pro-Life Senate Caucus, spoke out against an amendment presented earlier Monday by Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., To offer the budgetary package of 3.3 billions of GOP dollars.

Senator Jeff Merkley, D-ear., Along with Senator Ron Wyden, D-ear., And the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., speaks to journalists after the weekly lunch of democratic Senate politics at the American Capitol on May 6, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)

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Murray’s amendment finally failed with a 49-52 vote, according to the Washington examiner.

Murray said that one year’s ban on Medicaid funds for abortion suppliers “would reduce millions of contraceptive women, cancer screening, essential preventive health care – they will not be able to afford elsewhere, and it will close some 200 health care clinics in our country.”

Elizabeth Macdonough, parliamentarian of the American Senate, said that a provision prohibiting Medicaid funds from supporting clinics that provide abortions can remain in the “big and beautiful bill” of President Donald Trump. (Senate / American document via Reuters)

“This is a long -term objective of anti -youth extremists – no surprises, it is extremely unpopular to the American people,” said Murray. “But the Republicans are determined to tear down any access from abortion care, and happy to cut this life care. It doesn’t matter that women have another place to get the care they can afford, or another place where they can be careful!”

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She highlighted an assessment of the Congressional Budget Office to assert that “finance” Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $ 52 million over the next ten years. This was based on the 10 -year Medicaid block in a previous version of the bill adopted by the Chamber.

This budgetary provision comes after the United States Supreme Court ruled last week that states have the power to block the funding of Medicaid for Planned Parenthood clinics in a large pro-life victory.