(LifeSiteNews) — After the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress halted Medicaid funding to abortion providers nationwide, the state of Maine is plowing $6 million in taxpayer funding to prop up Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and Maine Family Planning.
The move by state legislators came after an appeals court upheld a provision in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (BBB) that establishes a one-year ban on federal tax dollars going through Medicaid to any entity that commits abortions for reasons other than rape, incest, or supposed threats to the mother’s life.
In response, lawmakers in Maine passed two bills to keep the abortion mills running. LD 210 provides a one-time, $6 million commitment to fund family planning services during the current fiscal year.
“Maine Family Planning is claiming the influx of money won’t matter and said it may do away with all of its primary care services while continuing abortions,” Live Action’s Nancy Flanders explained.
“When abortion businesses have a choice between providing non-abortion services while receiving government funding or providing abortion services while losing government funding, they always choose the latter, sacrificing legitimate health care on the altar of abortion,” Flanders wrote. “Look no further than Planned Parenthood, which chose to walk away from tens of millions in taxpayer funding when Trump forced abortion businesses to separate their abortion services from other services both fiscally and physically (to avoid fungibility) during his first term.”
“Following suit, if Maine Family Planning does end its primary care services, it plans to continue to offer STD and STI testing, birth control, and abortion at all 18 of its locations,” Flanders said.
In August, Judge Lance Walker of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine affirmed that the Trump administration could lawfully deny federal Medicaid dollars to the top abortion business in Maine.
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Trump’s administration has posted one pro-life achievement after another since retaking the White House in January.
Within weeks of returning to office, Trump also began enforcing the Hyde Amendment (which forbids most federal funds from directly supporting elective abortions), reinstated the Mexico City Policy (which forbids non-governmental organizations from using taxpayer dollars for elective abortions abroad), and cut millions in pro-abortion subsidies by freezing U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spending.
In March, the administration froze Title X “family planning” grants to nonprofits it said violated its executive orders on immigration and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including Planned Parenthood affiliates in nine states.