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A GOP pro-life path as Planned Parenthood hits record abortion

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Planned Parenthood Hits Record 400,000 Abortions: Why the Pro-Life Win Is Slipping Away

The nation’s largest abortion mill, Planned Parenthood, released its annual report recently, and it was a banner year for the abortion giant, setting a record of over 400,000 abortions.

During the period covered by the report, Planned Parenthood received more than $2.1 billion in total revenue, with about 40% of that coming from taxpayers. The report reflects a time before the “One Big Beautiful Bill” temporarily defunded them for one year. But as we warned when the Senate reduced that defunding from 10 years to one, it would be short-lived. That provision expires in July, unless Congress includes it in reconciliation 2.0, which begins in the Senate this coming week as lawmakers return from the Easter recess.

However, Congressional leaders have made clear that reconciliation 2.0 is focused on ending the prolonged shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, making sure the entire department is funded, including immigration enforcement. With the GOP’s historically slim 218-214 majority in the House, leadership must keep nearly the entire conference unified. That leaves little room for additional priorities, meaning the bill will likely be narrowly focused and not include the defunding of the abortion giant.

So where does that leave the roughly two-thirds of Republican voters who identify as pro-life? The faded, brittle confetti of pro-life victories from five years ago offers little consolation amid a growing string of setbacks. What began as a 10-year defunding effort was reduced to one and is now about to expire. And earlier this month, the Trump administration effectively stepped back from the fight to remove Title X funding from abortion chains.

But there is more.

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Planned Parenthood Hits Record 400,000 Abortions: Why the Pro-Life Win Is Slipping Away

The nation’s largest abortion mill, Planned Parenthood, released its annual report recently, and it was a banner year for the abortion giant, setting a record of over 400,000 abortions.

During the period covered by the report, Planned Parenthood received more than $2.1 billion in total revenue, with about 40% of that coming from taxpayers. The report reflects a time before the “One Big Beautiful Bill” temporarily defunded them for one year. But as we warned when the Senate reduced that defunding from 10 years to one, it would be short-lived. That provision expires in July, unless Congress includes it in reconciliation 2.0, which begins in the Senate this coming week as lawmakers return from the Easter recess.

However, Congressional leaders have made clear that reconciliation 2.0 is focused on ending the prolonged shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, making sure the entire department is funded, including immigration enforcement. With the GOP’s historically slim 218-214 majority in the House, leadership must keep nearly the entire conference unified. That leaves little room for additional priorities, meaning the bill will likely be narrowly focused and not include the defunding of the abortion giant.

So where does that leave the roughly two-thirds of Republican voters who identify as pro-life? The faded, brittle confetti of pro-life victories from five years ago offers little consolation amid a growing string of setbacks. What began as a 10-year defunding effort was reduced to one and is now about to expire. And earlier this month, the Trump administration effectively stepped back from the fight to remove Title X funding from abortion chains.

But there is more.

Continued below.
PP should be ashamed of themselves. Praying daily they shut down for good. (not debating/discussing morality).
 
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I sure pray too Christians look not just at planned parenthood but also onto some of the underlying reasons that are driving more toward abortion.
It appears economics (safety nets, health care) play a big role. Since 1980, when these shrank abortions increased, and when the they were supported abortions decreased. Abortion data over the period found on The National Right to Life Committee website indicates these trends that can associated by administration.
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Planned Parenthood Hits Record 400,000 Abortions: Why the Pro-Life Win Is Slipping Away
Cutting safety nets and health insurance, and greatly reducing government agencies that administer these programs seems to have had a big effect. Three and half decades of steady decreases made a sharp statistical reversal in 2017 which continues to this day.

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It all economic. Young people don't want kids because they can't afford it.
My fourth was a topic of affordability in the 90s.
It's not just money. It's also opportunity cost. If it were just about money, the negative correlation between education and fertility rates wouldn't be so universal across the globe. There are places where raising a kid isn't nearly as expensive, but there's nowhere where raising a kid doesn't take a considerable amount of time that one could spend doing something else. Without an education, one's options for "something else" can be somewhat limited and often not especially remunerative, but with an education, that changes.
 
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It's not just money. It's also opportunity cost. If it were just about money, the negative correlation between education and fertility rates wouldn't be so universal across the globe. There are places where raising a kid isn't nearly as expensive, but there's nowhere where raising a kid doesn't take a considerable amount of time that one could spend doing something else. Without an education, one's options for "something else" can be somewhat limited and often not especially remunerative, but with an education, that changes.
I think affordability is a main driver and also the social component, like millennials start later then boomers. They probably want to party more. Yes education level for those that choose to go because with it you tend to be paid better unless your good with your hands.
 
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I think affordability is a main driver and also the social component, like millennials start later then boomers. They probably want to party more. Yes education level for those that choose to go because with it you tend to be paid better unless your good with your hands.

You're still thinking about this in an American context. This happens in virtually every country and culture on earth:

Girls in rural southeast asian villages or africa aren't looking to "party more" with their new high school educations.
 
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It's not just money. It's also opportunity cost. If it were just about money, the negative correlation between education and fertility rates wouldn't be so universal across the globe. There are places where raising a kid isn't nearly as expensive, but there's nowhere where raising a kid doesn't take a considerable amount of time that one could spend doing something else. Without an education, one's options for "something else" can be somewhat limited and often not especially remunerative, but with an education, that changes.
Sadly in a truely poor nation, a kid is not an opportunity cost but rather a benefit. Like those children are your future pension. I know one nation where it is law that children must support their parents in old age.
This scripture runs contrary to what most believe today.
Ps. 127:3 Children are a heritage from the Lord,
offspring a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
when they contend with their opponents in court.
 
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It appears economics (safety nets, health care) play a big role. Since 1980, when these shrank abortions increased, and when the they were supported abortions decreased. Abortion data over the period found on The National Right to Life Committee website indicates these trends that can associated by administration.
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Part of the problem is that pro-life doesn't describe Republicans properly. Antiabortion fits better. If they would take a true pro-life position, abortion rates would decrease when they were in power.

We need to help women afford to raise their children. It starts with compassion.
 
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Part of the problem is the pro-life doesn't describe Republicans properly. Antiabortion fits better. If they would take a true pro-life position, abortion rates would decrease when they were in power.

We need to help women afford to raise their children. It starts with compassion.
Absolutely!
 
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