While Donald Trump has rejected any federal ban on abortion, America's industrial baby-killers are still dreading his presidency. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump’s appointees to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have already said they will defund Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider.
J D Vance stated in October that a second Trump administration will defund Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood gets roughly $450 million in federal government funds; about 40 percent of their revenue comes from government reimbursements and grants. If the federal government were to completely cut ties with the abortion giant, the cuts could conceivably sink the organisation and lead to the closure of many brick-and-mortar abortion clinics.
In many states, Planned Parenthood has pushed out smaller abortion providers and acquired a monopoly on abortion provision; if PP clinics were to close, many areas would have no abortion clinics in the area.
Add to that the fact that, according to a new report, abortion clinics are closing right across the country. The Guardian noted this week that in total, “76 independent abortion clinics have closed since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 … But the closures aren’t limited to states with restrictive laws. Of the 11 clinics that shuttered in the last year, eight were located in states with strong abortion protections.” From the Guardian:
Over the last year, 11 independent abortion clinics closed, bringing the nationwide total of brick-and-mortar indie clinics in the U.S. to 363, according to a report released on Tuesday morning by the Abortion Care Network (ACN), a network of independent providers. That’s down from more than 500 in 2012.