Republicans finally cut off Planned Parenthood's taxpayer money last year.
A handful of them, at least in name, just green-lit that protection lapsing and that was hardly the only conservative priority they laid down on without a fight.
These RINOs just proved one thing mattered more to them than saving babies.
Planned Parenthood Cashes In While Congress Takes A Recess
The One Big Beautiful Bill blocked Planned Parenthood from Medicaid money for exactly one year.
That year ended on the Fourth of July.
Nobody in the House or Senate stepped in to stop it.
The nation's largest abortion provider is now back in line for $600 million or more in taxpayer funding.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America warned lawmakers months ago that letting the ban lapse before a midterm election would be a disaster.
Nobody listened.
Eleven blue states have already increased their own funding to Planned Parenthood since the federal ban took effect.
Jessica Prol Smith of Heartbeat International put the stakes in blunt terms.
She told The Federalist that they were getting 39 percent of their overall funding from the government.
That is public money keeping the country's biggest abortion business afloat.
Republicans held the House, the Senate, and the White House this entire year.
They let it lapse anyway.
Thom Tillis Called Voter Protection Measure Dead Weeks Before His Pals Proved Him Right
House Speaker Mike Johnson insists there is still a path.
He wants to attach the SAVE Act to a third budget reconciliation bill when Congress returns, bypassing the Senate's filibuster entirely.
PJ Media captured Johnson's own tally of how many times the House has already done its part.
"We passed it three times in the House," Johnson said.
Senator Thom Tillis was not impressed.
The North Carolina Republican, who is retiring and answers to no one, declared the SAVE Act finished before Congress even left town.
Tillis put it bluntly: "They know it's dead, and so all this is theater."
He was talking about voter ID.
He might as well have been talking about Planned Parenthood.
Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell joined Tillis to block the SAVE Act from riding along on a seventy billion dollar border security funding package.
Four Republicans killed it before it ever reached Democrats.
Pro-Life Groups Say Republicans Are Testing Their Own Voters
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America has already promised $160 million for the 2026 and 2028 elections.
That kind of money buys doors knocked and ads bought, not excuses.
The group's president spelled out exactly what she expects from Republicans now.
"Defunding Big Abortion is now the default expectation of the pro-life movement," Marjorie Dannenfelser said.
Lila Rose of Live Action called the expired ban a "moral failure."
Pro-life voters do not forget a broken promise, especially one broken on the country's 250th birthday.
SBA's own numbers show Trump carried roughly nine in ten pro-life voters last year.
The same data shows he would have lost the whole race outright if a sliver of that coalition, one or two points, had simply stayed home.
Republicans cannot afford to hand that coalition a reason to skip a midterm.
Handing the base a reason to sit it out in July is not strategy.
It is malpractice.
The Same Mistake Establishment Republicans Keep Making
This is not new territory for the GOP.
Republicans defunded Planned Parenthood through reconciliation once before in 2015, only to watch Barack Obama veto it and Congress fail to override him.
That defeat cost conservatives a decade of taxpayer money flowing to the country's largest abortion provider while Republicans waited for another shot at unified government.
A decade later, they finally got that shot, held the House, the Senate, and the White House, and got the win on the board.
Then they let the clock run out on it, on the exact anniversary designed to remind the country what unalienable rights are supposed to mean.
History does not reward parties that win the fight and lose the follow through.
Democrats do not have this problem.
Every time Planned Parenthood's money is threatened, the entire left mobilizes overnight – from the White House press room to the nightly news.
Republicans control both chambers and still could not keep the lights on for their own defunding law.
Voters do not care whose fault the Senate math is.
They care whether the party they elected finished the job.
Independence Day fireworks were barely out of the sky before Big Abortion was back on the taxpayer dole.
Right now the answer is no, and pro-life America is watching every senator who let it happen.
Sources:
- Matt Kittle, "Congress Went On Vacation Rather Than Pass The SAVE Act, Extend Planned Parenthood Defunding," The Federalist, July 7, 2026.
- David Manney, "Johnson Keeps Passing the SAVE Act While Thune Keeps Waiting," PJ Media, July 5, 2026.
- Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, "Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood, Big Abortion to Resume as Key Defunding Provision Expires July 4," SBA Pro-Life America, July 1, 2026.
- Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, "No In-Between: Dannenfelser Tells Gala Attendees States-Only Approach to Abortion Is a Failure," SBA Pro-Life America, April 30, 2026.
- LifeNews.com Staff, "Pro-Life Leaders are Furious After Planned Parenthood Funding Resumes," LifeNews.com, July 7, 2026.
- Conservative Institute Staff, "Speaker Johnson Bets on Reconciliation to Finally Push SAVE America Act Past the Senate," Conservative Institute, July 6, 2026.
- Matt Kittle, "Leading Pro-Life Group To Spend $80 Million In 2026 Midterms," The Federalist, November 18, 2025.
