Federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund ending life in the womb, but a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the federal government shelled out Americans’ hard-earned money to subsidize the domestic and global abortion industry.
GAO initiated the 60-page report at the request of nearly 150 congressional Republicans led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Chris Smith, and Rep. Vicky Hartzler in January 2022. The agency’s previous report, spanning fiscal years 2016 to 2018, tracked nearly $2 billion in government spending directly to the pockets of several abortion activist groups.
The latest GAO report obtained by The Federalist that abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), MSI Reproductive Choices, and at least four U.S. abortion facilities received a combined total of $1.89 billion through grants, agreements, loans, and programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance between 2019 and 2021.
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation’s largest abortion business, which committed 1.11 million murders in utero between 2019 and 2021, collected the largest share of funds, $1.78 billion.
Most of PPFA’s funding, $1.53 billion, came from Medicaid, Medicare, and Children’s Health Insurance Program reimbursements, with another $148.5 million coming from “cooperative agreements” and grants like those from the Title X Family Planning Program. It wasn’t until the Trump administration enacted its Protect Life rule in 2019, prohibiting taxpayer dollars from funding programs that refer or provide abortion or share a physical space with abortionists, that PPFA stopped accepting Title X
