Abortion Distortion: Federal Court Effectively Grants Planned Parenthood Constitutional Entitlement to Federal Funds

Tonight a federal court in Massachusetts granted a partial injunction to Planned Parenthood against the bill defunding the abortion giant.

The court has twisted the First Amendment into a shield for abortion providers—protecting not just their speech, but their funding. Congress has every right to decide that taxpayer dollars should not flow to abortion providers or their affiliates. Yet this ruling effectively grants Planned Parenthood a constitutional entitlement to federal funds.

This decision carves out a dangerous privilege—one that elevates abortion providers above every other grantee, creating a special class of government-sponsored speakers. It lays the groundwork for permanent entrenchment of abortion groups within the federal funding landscape, shielding them from the political accountability that applies to everyone else.

Once again, the abortion distortion is at work—where normal rules of law are suspended simply because abortion is involved. A routine federal funding decision becomes a First Amendment violation. A restriction on one of the most powerful and politically connected lobbying networks in America somehow becomes an equal protection problem. The court treats Planned Parenthood not as the pro-abortion advocacy juggernaut that it is, but as a fragile association of speakers whose funding must be constitutionally guaranteed.

That’s not how the Constitution works—except when abortion is on the line. Then, suddenly, everything changes.