Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to the Passage of the GOP Budget Out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee: “It’s unconscionable.” - Reproductive Freedom for All®

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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to the Passage of the GOP Budget Out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee: “It’s unconscionable.”

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to the Passage of the GOP Budget Out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee: “It’s unconscionable.”

Washington, DC — Today, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted along party lines to pass the GOP’s budget package out of committee—legislation that will defund Planned Parenthood, cut $880 billion from Medicaid, and strip health coverage from at least 13.7 million people by 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Speaker Johnson is working to rush through the bill package for a full House vote next week.The provision targeting Planned Parenthood alone would increase the federal deficit by $300 million, all while denying at least 2 million patients access to essential care like birth control, cancer screenings, and STI screenings at health centers across the country.

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:

“It’s no surprise that a goal of this reconciliation bill is to force Planned Parenthood health centers to shut down. Republicans have been trying — unsuccessfully — to shut down Planned Parenthood for decades. Plain and simple, this legislation will mean millions of people will have nowhere to go for basic health care. 

I want to thank our many Democratic colleagues, including Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, who spoke out against this extreme bill, which would rip health care away from seniors, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and more – all so they can give massive tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and big corporations. The sheer cruelty and enormity of their actions, and the harm they will inflict on the very people they were elected to represent, is unconscionable.”

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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.