On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear the case of Kerr v. Planned Parenthood, and it won't be the first time. This 2018 case involves South Carolina's attempt to block the use of Medicaid to fund abortions at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) centers in the state. In an executive order, Gov. Henry McMaster directed the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to end Medicaid agreements with abortion clinics because they were unqualified to provide family planning services. Medicaid patient Julie Edwards, along with PPFA, sued. After back and forth between U.S. district court and appeals court panels and opinions, it finds itself back in the highest court, post-Dobbs.

Like the good propagandists they are, PPFA has painted themselves the persecuted and deemed any ruling against them will mean the poor and disenfranchised will lose access to health care. Cue the tiny violins.

Did you know the Supreme Court is about to decide whether Medicaid patients can go to Planned Parenthood health centers? If they rule the wrong way, millions could lose access to health care.

Join us on April 2 in DC with @PPFA to fight back. https://t.co/IcQeB3QdD6#ImForPP pic.twitter.com/uTmqmrlpMm

— United For Democracy (@WeAreUFD) March 29, 2025

Despite all its bombast and tough talk, PPFA is in serious trouble, and a ruling in favor of the State of South Carolina would definitely affect the health of the PPFA organization nationwide, such as it is. Like the unraveling of federally codified abortion access, a decision in favor of the state will set a precedent for other states to cut off the PPFA spigot, so they are legitimately worried. PPFA's reputation is also taking a hit. Before 2022, any negative reporting on PPFA would have come from a conservative or right-of-center publication and would have been maligned and deemed QAnon and right-wing falsehoods. In 2016, when David Daleiden exposed PPFA and their lucrative business of selling baby body parts, he was targeted, harassed, and sued, with the complicity and help of then-CA Attorney General Kamala Harris. 

I have faced years of persecution in San Francisco courts for daring to report the truth.

But the authenticity of my undercover footage was never in question—@PPFA stipulated multiple times under oath that this footage captures their own leaders' words:pic.twitter.com/H8zrJND9uk

— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) March 27, 2025

But the culture has shifted. After the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade, the abortion rights organization moved its focus to lobbying for unfettered abortion pill access as well as puberty blockers and gender-affirming care. Low-hanging fruit, and for a short time, easy money. But lately, PPFA's fundraising goes toward shoring up the failing organization. When the New York Times does an exposé on you, you know you've fallen out of favor.

But a New York Times review of clinic documents and legal filings, as well as interviews with more than 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants and medical staff members, found that some clinics are so short of cash that care has suffered. Many operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff, as turnover has increased because of rock-bottom salaries. Patient counts have shrunk from a high of five million and 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today.

The lack of resources is startling: Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Planned Parenthood has enjoyed a fund-raising boom, with $498 million in donations that year. But little of it goes to the state affiliates to provide health care at clinics. Instead, under the national bylaws, the majority of the money is spent on the legal and political fight to maintain abortion rights.

Abortion rights are now in the hands of individual states, and more and more pro-life activists are demanding that any federal funding of abortions be removed. And the Trump administration is listening.

The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants to certain organizations while it investigates whether the money was used for diversity efforts, people familiar with the matter said. 

The Health and Human Services Department is weighing an immediate freeze of $27.5 million in grants, an agency spokesman said after The Wall Street Journal reported the plans. 

The groups that would be subject to the freeze include Planned Parenthood affiliates, the people familiar with the matter said. Altogether, the groups were set to get a total of about $120 million this year. 

And the American people are paying attention. According to a February Harvard survey, over 70 percent of people approve of DOGE and its investigation of waste, fraud, and abuse in government. The current appetite is that it's time to get rid of the unnecessary and the excessive. Like USAID, funding the death merchants with federal tax dollars is a waste of our tax dollars we can no longer afford.

Editor's Note: DOGE is finding billions of dollars in wasteful spending, and the Democrats are losing their minds as they realize their gravy train and woke projects are coming to an end.

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