Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act
Key claim: This bill prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics.
Abstract
(S177 · 119th Congress) Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act This bill prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America or its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics. Latest action (2025-01-22): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Why this matters
Planned Parenthood is one of the largest single providers of federally reimbursed reproductive and preventive care in the U.S., so provider-specific defunding bills operate as a distinct lever from service-specific abortion funding restrictions. If enacted, the practical effect would fall primarily on Medicaid patients and Title X users who rely on affiliated clinics for contraception, STI testing, and cancer screening, with the sharpest impact in areas where affiliates are the dominant safety-net provider. Tracking these recurring proposals matters for gauging the cumulative direction of federal reproductive-health funding policy even when individual bills stall.