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US House Proposes Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood, Banning 'Sex Changes' With Taxpayer Dollars

Matt Lamb : Nov 30, 2023  LifeSiteNews.com

The bill is one of the first big tests for new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his ability to pass pro-life and pro-family legislation.

(Washington, DC — [LifeSiteNews.com] A spending bill for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education includes a number of pro-life and pro-family provisions. (Screengrab image: via C-SPAN)

House Resolution 5894 is awaiting a vote after passing out of committee before Thanksgiving. It is one of the first big tests for new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his ability to pass pro-life and pro-family bills.

"The bill would also eliminate federal Title X grants to family planning clinics including Planned Parenthood," Axios reported.

It would also prevent Medicare and Medicaid from paying for so-called "gender transitions" for individuals who struggle with gender confusion, according to the analysis from Axios. The legislation would also prohibit funding post-graduation medical training unless the program made abortion training "opt-in" versus "opt-out."

Republican US Rep. Roy Aderholt of Alabama, the chief sponsor of the legislation, said the bill would "prohibits funding for programs focused solely on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and it eliminates funding for Planned Parenthood and other controversial grantees."

"It also protects religious freedom and values by stopping this Administration's regulation that would require schools to allow biological boys to compete against girls in women's sports programs, and prohibiting any federal funding from going toward enforcing gender identity politics or social, hormonal, and surgical interventions to look like the opposite sex," according to a statement in support.

The bill also protects the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits direct payment of abortions from taxpayer funds, and would also prohibit funding for ... Joe Biden's executive orders to expand the killing of preborn babies in the wake of the Dobbs decision... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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