The Republicans of the United States Senate approved on Tuesday the budget measure “Big Beautiful Bill” of President Donald Trump, which includes a willingness to withdraw the funds to Planned Parenthood for a year, which the Defenders Provida qualify as a “big step” towards the permanent elimination of funds for the abortist organization.
The bill originally provided for the funds to Planned Parenthood for a period of 10 years. Last week, the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, disqualified More than a dozen provisions of the project, including the part that withdrew funds to abortions, forced the Republicans to modify the language of the text.
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The Senate approved on Tuesday the bill modified after an tiebreaker vote cast by Vice President JD Vance. Three Republican senators —Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins de Maine and Rand Paul de Kentucky— They opposed the project For different reasons.
The reconciliation project, which includes several tax cuts and tax reductions, must still return to the House of Representatives for a last voting round.
The Hyde amendment It prohibits direct federal financing of abortions, although activists have argued that the federal government has long subsidized abortion indirectly to the provide hundreds of millions of dollars annually a Planned Parenthood. These funds, nominally, are for services that do not include abortions.
Although the period of withdrawal of funds is only a tenth of what providate legislators initially planned, the defenders argued on Tuesday that it would still be a significant advance.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, described the project as a “small but important victory”, pointing out that “it cuts approximately 500 million dollars to Planned Parenthood and abortions suppliers”, although she acknowledged that it is “only for one year.”
“This proves what we have always said: Congress can cut Planned Parenthood funds, and just done,” Hawkins said Tuesday in a communication In X. “The moral obligation is clear: if we can do it for a year, we must do it permanently.”
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, described Approval as “a crucial victory in the fight against abortion, the main cause of death in the United States, and an industry that endangers women and girls.”
“The biggest victory provides from Dobbs is available! ” added.
The president of Live Action, Lila Rose, described on Tuesday the measure as “a beginning, but not enough.”
“The Chamber should restore the withdrawal of funds for 10 years that they already approved,” he said.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Kate Quiñones
Kate Quiñones is a Catholic News Agency and Member of College Fix. It has publications on the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Catholic Register and Catholicvote. He graduated from Hillsdale College. Live in Colorado with her husband.