JD Vance lied about Planned Parenthood, claiming taxpayers pay for late-term abortions when it is illegal to do so. Defunding Planned Parenthood would harm millions of patients seeking cancer screenings and other health care services.
Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, called for the federal government to defund Planned Parenthood following Trump’s rally in Butler County on Saturday.
“On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance told reporters after Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around. It will remain a consistent view.”
It is illegal for federal funds to help provide someone an abortion, and defunding Planned Parenthood, as Vance suggested, would harm millions of women who go to the health centers seeking cancer screenings, birth control and other reproductive health care services.
Planned Parenthood receives most of their federal funding through Medicaid and Title X, which provides funding for birth control and reproductive health care services, and it helps more than 4 million people annually.
In 2023, Planned Parenthood, nationally, provided over 460,000 cancer screenings and prevention procedures, and helped over 2.5 million patients.
“For JD Vance, it’s not enough to ban abortion. He and Donald Trump want to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood health centers, which would rob millions of people across the country of vital, affordable care,” Jenny Lawson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, said in a statement.
“Every time JD Vance opens his mouth, he makes it clearer: A potential Trump-Vance administration is the greatest threat to reproductive freedom we’ve seen in a generation. Planned Parenthood Votes will continue to ring the alarm so voters remember exactly what is at stake this November.”
