{"id":63249,"date":"2026-03-21T13:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63249"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:10:05","slug":"good-news-for-taxpayers-and-pro-life-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63249","title":{"rendered":"Good News For Taxpayers And Pro-Life Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Townhall<\/a> posted an article about the legal challenges by Planned Parenthood to the ban on taxpayer money being used to fund abortion.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

When President Trump signed the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d on July 4, 2025, cutting off federal Medicaid reimbursements to large abortion providers under\u00a0Section 71113<\/span><\/a>, the abortion industry immediately launched a coordinated, multi-front legal assault to force the money to keep flowing. The ACLJ jumped into the fight on Day One \u2013 and never looked back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Planned Parenthood filed suit in the Massachusetts federal district court within days of the bill\u2019s passage. When the district judge granted two sweeping preliminary injunctions \u2013 claiming the defunding violated Planned Parenthood\u2019s First Amendment rights \u2013 we filed four amicus briefs<\/span><\/a> fighting back, including urging the First Circuit to issue an emergency stay. The First Circuit granted the stay<\/span><\/a> on September 11, cutting off Planned Parenthood\u2019s funding while the case proceeded \u2013 and later issued a unanimous landmark ruling<\/span><\/a> upholding Section 71113 in its entirety and vacating both injunctions. Win.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maine Family Planning opened a second legal front in Maine federal district court. We filed amicus briefs<\/span><\/a> there at both the district and appellate levels arguing that no court can force Congress to spend money it specifically voted not to spend. The district court denied their injunction entirely, and after the First Circuit\u2019s decisive ruling in the Planned Parenthood case, Maine Family Planning abandoned its appeal altogether<\/span><\/a> and stipulated to dismissal. Win.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Even as those cases were resolved, California organized a coalition of 22 states to file their own lawsuit \u2013 California et al. v. HHS<\/em><\/span> \u2013 seeking to reimpose Planned Parenthood funding across their jurisdictions. We filed our seventh amicus brief<\/span><\/a> there, and the First Circuit handed California a decisive defeat<\/span><\/a>, granting a stay that allowed Section 71113 to take effect even in the plaintiff states. With no viable legal theory remaining, the coalition has now dismissed its own case, seeing the writing on the wall. Win.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

As monumental as today\u2019s victory is, Section 71113 of the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d cuts off Planned Parenthood\u2019s Medicaid funding for one year. The abortion lobby will regroup. The only way to make this permanent is through Congress.<\/span> The ACLJ will be at the forefront of that fight, just as we have been at every stage of this one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know if we will ever be able to end legal abortion, but at least we can stop the taxpayers being forced to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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