Congress and 18 States Poised to Defund Planned Parenthood

The federal government, and up to 18 state governments, are inching their way toward Medicaid defunding of affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, for many decades the nation’s premier funder and supplier of abortion.The battle has shifted back and forth over that time thanks to changes in the party holding the White House and statehouses. But it has been drawn out for another key reason, and that is the early and wily decision by Planned Parenthood’s leadership and allied gr