Lawfare: noun, legal action undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against a country or group.
Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion activist US District Judge Indira Talwani are conducting lawfare. Those in their crosshairs are Congress, President Trump, America’s unborn babies, and the will of the people.
Planned Parenthood (PP) shopped for an activist judge who would legislate from the bench and rewrite federal law. They found it in Talwani, appointed by Barack Obama. She issued a far-reaching injunction against part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBB) that protects Americans from being forced to financially support big abortion.
This is at best arrogant considering the US Supreme Court recently ruled that states may defund PP. The Court also significantly limited widespread injunctions, ruling most were unconstitutional. The Appellate Court is likely to issue a legal spanking for Talwani.
Even with this galling tactic of delay, passage of the BBB is already having the desired life-saving effect. I predicted that PP would immediately begin to hemorrhage employees and be unable to pay their bills, resulting in closed centers.
- PP announced the closing of two abortion referral centers in Ohio.
- Four PP centers in Iowa are closing, including the only center committing abortions.
- PP in Minnesota is closing four centers. Iowa and Minnesota are laying off a combined 66 staffers.
- PP in Washington, DC and another in Colorado posted alerts on their respective websites that they can no longer accept Medicaid.
- St. Louis PP has reduced the number of its administrative employees.
- Maine Family Planning (not affiliated with PP) operates 18 centers and has filed their own lawsuit against the BBB.
HHS Secretary, Robert F Kennedy, Jr., a Democrat, issued a blunt legal memo in response to Talwani’s lawfare. In part it read, “Simply put, Planned Parenthood has no right to taxpayer money, and this Court should not invent such a right. The Court should uphold Congress’s lawful exercise of its authority to decide to whom it will entrust taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars.” Secretary Kennedy added that PP was attempting to “supplant duly enacted legislation with their own policy preferences.”
With the passage of the BBB, big abortion has channeled Chicken Little and engaged in over-the-top hyperbole. It claims the result will be “heart wrenching” changes. Abortion advocates proclaim the legislation is “cruel, harmful, inhumane and will strip healthcare from millions across the country.”
But abortion is not healthcare and since federally approved community health centers outnumber PP 15 to 1, healthcare will not be stripped from any qualifying patients.
This realm of reality, not occupied by PP and big abortion, destroys their sky-is-falling assertion that this will have a “devastating impact” on patients.
Further, a PP spokesperson said the bill would be “incredibly painful” for abortion center staff. But on the brighter side it won’t be painful for countless unborn babies who would otherwise die excruciatingly painful deaths by abortion.
Defending Life,
Brad Mattes,
President, Life Issues Institute
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