The ACLJ Joins With Over 150 Pro-Life Groups on Letter Demanding Congress Immediately Cut Federal Funding for Abortions

For 35 years, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has been on the front lines of the battle to save innocent unborn babies and shut down the taxpayer-funded abortion machine. And we’re ready to fight another 35 years if that’s what it takes to save every life and be a voice for the voiceless. That’s why your ACLJ has just signed onto a legal demand letter with over 150 other pro-life organizations demanding that Congress cut federal funding to the abortion industry.

Since our earliest efforts defending the pro-life advocacy group Operation Rescue—which has helped save countless unborn lives—the ACLJ has remained steadfast in advocating for the rights of the unborn. We've defended pro-life counselors, volunteers, and healthcare workers, and we've fought tirelessly to see the day Roe v. Wade was finally overturned. Even now we are engaged in a legal battle with the state of Massachusetts to shut down its current state-funded multimedia smear campaign attacking pro-life Pregnancy Resource Centers in its own state.  We’ve also created our own multimedia counter-campaign to drown out the state’s lies with the truth and help desperate mothers find actual options in a safe environment.

But our work to protect defenseless babies and topple the tax-dollar-gobbling abortion behemoths like Planned Parenthood – which grows richer and more powerful every year – is far from over. As it shamelessly touted in its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood received over $792 MILLION in federal reimbursements and grants just last year. And they reported roughly $2 BILLION in revenue after aborting more than 402,000 babies. No matter how many times they say abortion is not their primary business, they’re lying – it is.

Abortion is an industry of death, plain and simple. That’s bad enough. The American people should not have to fund it. Fortunately, as the letter we’ve signed onto states, times – and administrations – have changed:

In November, the American people gave a mandate – it is time for change in Washington. Since then, the White House is taking swift action to stop the Biden abortion agenda and cut government waste . . . by cutting funding for Big Abortion, including Planned Parenthood, through budget reconciliation.

No American taxpayer should have to watch the government hand over their hard-earned tax dollars to abortionists like Planned Parenthood to pay for abortions – especially pro-life Americans who, until now, haven’t been given a choice.

One of the scariest facts, according to this letter, is that Planned Parenthood – for all its claims that it has the welfare of women’s health and safety at the forefront of its operation – reportedly isn’t even using the funds to create a safe or healthy environment at all:

Despite their claims to promote “women’s health,” Planned Parenthood consistently opposes basic health and safety standards for their facilities. The New York Times recently reported a litany of unsafe conditions and botched abortions at Planned Parenthood. For example, in one clinic last year “sewage from a backed-up toilet seeped into the abortion recovery room for two days,” which required employees to shove “exam table pads under the bathroom door to block the leak.” According to the reporting, “[p]atients vomited from the stench.”

You may be asking: Then what is Planned Parenthood doing with the more than three-quarters of a billion dollars it’s been gifted with every year? We know the answer – it’s using the money to secure the support of U.S. lawmakers, specifically the abortion-worshiping radical Left. And yes, that includes a number of the same congressional Representatives who are receiving this urgent letter. As the letter states:

While leaving patients vomiting from rank conditions, Planned Parenthood prioritized pouring millions of dollars into woke lobbying and trying to defeat Republicans in races from the school board to the presidency. Planned Parenthood boasts that their advocacy and political organizations spent a massive $69.5 million during the 2024 election cycle. Their massive pro-abortion political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, pushes all-trimester abortions and promotes fearmongering lies that put women and girls at needless risk. Their political arm has more lobbyists and spends more on federal lobbying than any other pro-abortion or pro-life group, spending more than half a million dollars in the first quarter of 2023 alone.

In other words, Planned Parenthood takes some of the tax dollars it receives from the government to subsidize abortions and uses it to fund political campaigns for politicians who will continue to approve sending it money for abortions. It almost seems like the pattern is intentional. But now the cycle has to be broken – permanently. Abortion may still be legal in many states across the country, but the American people should not have to cough up one dime to subsidize the killing of innocents.

We are hopeful that this letter will find receptive eyes in Congress and that all federal funding to the abortion machine will be cut off for good – for life.