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Mar 28 2025

Colorado Pro-Abortion Politician: Abortion is Cheaper for the State

Earlier this week, the speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives gave testimony in support of public tax dollars going to fund abortion.

She then admits it’s cheaper for the state to pay for abortions than pay for a baby to be born.

Don’t believe it? Listen for yourself.

SHOCKING: Speaker Julie McCluskie (D) is effectively encouraging Coloradans on Medicaid to have an abortion instead of giving birth, because it's cheaper for the state.

This occurred yesterday. Really showing your cards @McCluskieforCO #COPolitics pic.twitter.com/lbhguaYLeO

— Scott Shamblin (@scottpshamblin) March 26, 2025

Colorado abortion activists are so brazen, they have no problem saying the quiet part out loud.

In the video, the pro-abortion lawmaker explains,

Ultimately, the state will see a cost savings. A birth is more expensive than an abortion.

The “savings” comes from “averted births” because “the abortions happen instead.”

If your instinctual response to that argument is to recoil in shock and disgust, good – that means you have an intact conscience.

If the same “cost savings” argument were applied to the disabled or to those that suffer from chronic medical conditions, there would be an uproar – and rightly so.

It’s a dehumanizing argument meant to justify the death of an entire segment of the human population based on the idea that it would be cheaper if we didn’t have to care for them at all.

Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family, told the Daily Citizen,

As Christians, we know that every human being is made in the image of God with intrinsic value and worth, and that distinction begins in the womb. To suggest that abortion is acceptable because it saves the state of Colorado money is dystopian and morally objectionable on every level. If we ever hope to attain a more civil society, we must start by respecting human life at all stages of development. Children are not a burden on society – they are a blessing.

The Colorado bill, SB 25-183, would require the state to cover abortion as part of its Medicaid services.

The measure was approved by the state Senate and has already passed the House Health and Human Services Committee. It’s now on its way to the House floor where it is expected to have more than enough votes to pass.

Last fall, Colorado voters approved an amendment enshrining abortion in the state Constitution and repealing the ban on taxpayer funded abortions.

Now that the ban has been removed and abortion is considered a constitutionally protected “right” under state law, the abortion-supporting majority in Colorado’s state House and Senate are enthusiastically doing everything they can to ensure Colorado taxpayers pay for abortions.

When this bill becomes law, as is expected, Colorado taxpayers will be forced to spend millions of their dollars every year funding abortions against their conscience.

The measure’s fiscal note estimates, “In the first full implementation year (FY 2026-27), costs for abortion services are estimated to be $5.9 million, while cost savings for averted births are estimated to be $6.4 million.”

It’s no surprise the abortion lobby is advocating for this bill and taxpayer funded abortions. For abortion sellers, it’s always about the bottom line. They sell abortions for a living. What’s more secure than a steady stream of funding from Colorado taxpayers?

The video above, exposing the radical views of Colorado abortion activists, has already received over 120,000 views on X and its reach continues to grow.

Please share this article and video within your circle of influence.

Let’s work together to expose big abortion and hold them accountable for their shameful beliefs that discriminate against low-income women and their babies.

Written by Nicole Hunt · Categorized: Life · Tagged: abortion, Colorado

Mar 25 2025

BREAKING: Trump Administration Moves to Freeze, Cut Funding to Planned Parenthood

The Trump Administration plans to freeze $120 million in funding to Planned Parenthood and other family-planning organizations while it investigates whether those organizations used federal funds for DEI efforts.

The Wall Street Journal broke the story on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation. The administration is expected to publicly announce the funding freeze sometime this week.

A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said grant recipients are under review as they monitor for compliance with President Trump’s executive orders, including directives for DEI be removed from all aspects of the federal government.

The action will freeze roughly $20 million in grant money slated to go to Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is responsible for performing nearly 400,000 abortions every year which is roughly half of all abortions performed in the United States.

Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told The Wall Street Journal,

“The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they’ll end people’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it.”

News of restricting funding to Planned Parenthood has been received with great appreciation from the pro-life community.

President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, told LifeNews, “This is a victory for the unborn and for taxpayers. … This is about protecting life and respecting the conscience of Americans who don’t want their money supporting abortion.”

Other pro-life leaders took to X to celebrate the news.

Lila Rose from Live Action wrote,

BREAKING: The Trump admin will be defunding Planned Parenthood of tens of millions in Title X grants, per WSJ.

Planned Parenthood killed nearly 400,000 babies last year.

HUGE WIN from President Trump! @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/cObrnda9rj

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) March 25, 2025

Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life shared,

Breaking: Planned Parenthood could lose up to $20M in taxpayer funds with a new Trump freeze!

Now, Congress must defund all of their $700M in tax dollars!https://t.co/NMt668drDB

— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) March 25, 2025

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA also posted,

🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration is about to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.

Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or… pic.twitter.com/TG98fhqTtj

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 25, 2025

Many in the pro-life movement are calling on the Trump Administration to completely defund Planned Parenthood of all $700 million in tax dollars. Indeed, not a single cent of taxpayer money should go to an organization that kills 400,000 preborn children every year.

The Daily Citizen is very grateful for HHS’ decision and will keep you updated on this developing story.

At Focus on the Family, we have defended the rights of preborn children for decades, and we won’t rest until every preborn baby is loved and welcomed into the world. Through our Option Ultrasound program, we’ve helped save over half a million preborn babies since 2004.

You can learn more about Option Ultrasound and partner with us to help save lives.

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, visit My Choice Network.

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Image from Getty.

Written by Nicole Hunt · Categorized: Life · Tagged: abortion, Life

Feb 18 2025

Planned Parenthood Receives Millions of Dollars Through Federal ‘Family Planning’ Grants

This is Part 1 of a two-part series examining the federal government’s support of Planned Parenthood under the guise of “family planning.”

The federal government pours tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into pro-abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood every year, a Daily Citizen investigation reveals, using Title X “family planning” grants.

The loophole effectively allows presidential administrations to violate the Hyde Amendment, a congressional spending restriction prohibiting taxes from funding or enabling elective abortions.

Title X is a federal grant program supporting “comprehensive family planning and related health services.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) distributes Title X money to organizations that provide “contraceptive services, supplies and information.”

HHS’ oversight gives the executive branch substantial authority to determine whether pro-abortion organizations can qualify for Title X funds. Under pro-abortion presidential administrations, Planned Parenthood has received hundreds of millions of Title X dollars.  

Between fiscal years 2017 and 2025, HHS promised to pay $156.9 million to Planned Parenthood entities through 91 different grants. More than 80% ($126.3 million) of this money paid out of two funding buckets associated with Title X — Family Planning Services and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs.

But the abortion conglomerate, worth some $2.9 billion, hit a snag in 2019, when President Trump issued a rule requiring Title X-funded organizations to:

  • Refrain from referring women to get abortions;
  • “Maintain strict physical and financial separation from abortion services.”

The rule cost Planned Parenthood entities millions in taxpayer money. Between 2019 and 2021, the federal government owed the group a cumulative $20.9 million — significantly less than the $29.4 million promised in 2017 alone.

“The new rule forced Planned Parenthood health centers, along with many others, to withdraw from the Title X program,” the group complained, implicitly admitting it had previously mixed abortion services with federally-funded activities.

The Biden administration rescinded Trump’s Title X rule in 2021, allowing Planned Parenthood to continue gobbling taxpayer money. HHS paid the abortion giant more than $53.7 million in Title X grants between 2022 and 2025. Another $12.4 million is scheduled to pay out by June 2028.

Money is fungible; even if Planned Parenthood doesn’t use Title X money to fund abortions directly, the grants free up unregulated funds to perform and promote them.

What’s more, the 2021 HHS rule allows Planned Parenthood and its ilk to treat vulnerable women as sources of income.

Abortion providers make money by referring women to get abortions. In its most recent financial disclosures, Planned Parenthood reports raking in $383.3 million in between July 2023 and July 2024.

President Trump began reestablishing his pro-life legacy just days after starting his second term. On January 24, he issued two orders plugging some federal funding streams to elective abortions.

The first order reinstated the Mexico City policy, which stops the federal government from funding organizations that support or enable elective abortions abroad. The second revoked two executive actions from the Biden administration — one defining abortion as “healthcare” and the other “protecting…and promoting” access to abortions domestically.

The Daily Citizen supports any executive action that defunds abortion. To truly halt taxpayer-funded abortion, however, HHS must reinstate President Trump’s 2019 Title X rules.

Additional Articles and Resources

Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Taxpayer Funds for Abortion

Pentagon Ends Paid Travel Expenses and Time Off for Abortions

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy Pledge to Finally Defund Planned Parenthood

House Passes Born-Alive Bill to Protect Babies Who Survive Abortions

Abortion Remains Highly Profitable Business for Planned Parenthood, New Annual Report Shows

Young Person Braves Planned Parenthood’s Social Media So You Don’t Have To — Here’s What Parents Need To Know

Trump, Vance, Other Republican Leaders All Speak at March for Life

Written by Emily Washburn · Categorized: Life · Tagged: abortion, planned parenthood, taxes

Feb 07 2025

Closing USAID Isn’t Crazy — Here’s Why

The Trump administration pulled the plug on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), America’s largest distributor of humanitarian aid, this week following an audit of its billion-dollar books.

“For decades, USAID has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday.

She referenced some of the agency’s most unconscionable expenditures of taxpayer dollars, including:

  • $1.5 million to “advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
  • $6 million to Egyptian tourism.
  • Hundreds of millions to cultivate the poppy in Afghanistan (the main ingredient in heroin, the Taliban’s biggest money-maker).
  • More than $149,000 to fund foreign art projects celebrating DEI and LGBT-identified individuals, including a “transgender opera” and a “transgender comic book.”

Legislators, non-profits, activists and the United Nations have pitched an epic fit, claiming people will die without USAID’s aid. Some seemed particularly irate that Elon Musk, co-leader of the newly sanctioned Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), blew the whistle on the agency’s largesse.

“This is a five-alarm fire.” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. “The people elected Donald Trump to be President — not Elon Musk … This should not be a partisan issue.”

But it doesn’t take a wizard to figure out that USAID squandered Americans’ money on stupid and immoral causes.

Let’s walk through a few examples.

USAID is charged with implementing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a congressional aid package tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The program will dispense $30 billion in assistance over five years.

But PEPFAR no longer distributes AIDS relief alone. In 2022, the government released a document connecting PEPFAR’s success with “sexual reproductive health, rights and services.” The semantic adjustment allows USAID to funnel PEPFAR money to fund elective abortions under the guise of “reproductive care.”

Between 2021 and 2022, more than 25 explicitly pro-abortion organizations spent a combined $1.34 billion PEPFAR donations.

One of these groups is the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). USAID paid it $8.9 million between 2015 and 2025 to execute contracts related to expanding “family planning and sexual and reproductive health.”

IPPF’s current contract with USAID would have paid out $45 million by 2028.

In a statement opposing USAID’s closure and the State Department’s temporary pause on foreign aid spending, IPPF unwittingly revealed exactly what it uses PEPFAR money for:

[The US State Department’s] funding suspension initially impacted the over 20 million people living with HIV directly supported through PEPFAR. Later, however, a life-saving humanitarian assistance waiver walked back the decision, yet excludes activities related to abortion or family planning, gender or DEI programs, gender-affirming surgeries and other activities deemed to be non-life saving assistance.

In short, IPPF resents that money from an AIDS relief program will go only toward people suffering from AIDS.

It’s also concerned about diminished “sexual and reproductive health services,” linking to an Instagram post from a company called Gender DynamiX — “Africa’s first registered public benefit organization to focus solely on issues of trans and gender diverse persons.”

Without US tax dollars, it will have to stop administering opposite-sex hormones.

IPPF is far from the only organization to rely on US assistance. America pays roughly 30% of the United Nation’s $58 billion budget every year. A hefty portion of these donations come from USAID. In 2022, the agency gave $10.9 billion to UN subsidiaries.

You remember the UN? The group behind the UN Relief Agency in Palestine, some employees of whom contributed to Hamas’ devastating attack on Israel in October 2023?

The international body that ignored Hamas’ violence against women for months?

The same body that refused to condemn Hamas, but allowed Iran to lead the Human Rights Council’s Commission on Crime Prevention and Justice just days after it executed two people for criticizing Islam?

Yes, that UN would be devastated without the US’ help. It’s particularly concerned about the impact such cuts could have on the sexual health of women in South Asia — especially those with “unintended pregnancies.”

Given these examples, and USAID’s larger disconnect from taxpayers’ interests, it’s not surprising a complete overhaul has been ordered.

But the mismanagement and misuse of USAID also illuminates crucial failures in how the government distributes taxes.

American families shouldn’t have to wade through manipulative and deceptive language to discern how their hard-earned money is being spent They shouldn’t have to wonder whether their government is bilking them, or pouring cash into corrupt and ineffective organizations in service of causes they don’t believe in.

TLDR: This author isn’t sad to see the back of USAID.

Additional Articles and Resources

The UN’s Palestinian Relief Fund is in Trouble — Here’s Why It’s a Good Thing

United Nations Round-Up: Iran Heads Human Rights Council Assembly, Fails to Condemn Hamas

Women’s Rights Groups Silent on Hamas Sexual Violence, Analysis Shows

Senator Releases Annual ‘Festivus Report’ Chronicling $1 Trillion in Government Waste

Written by Emily Washburn · Categorized: Culture · Tagged: abortion, PEPFAR, taxes, transgender, USAID

Jan 23 2025

Why Won’t WHO Protect You Know Who?

If the Washington Post is for it, there’s normally a good case why social conservatives should be against it.

Earlier this week, President Trump announced that the United States will be withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), an association first established by the United Nations in 1948.

A one-year notice prior to officially breaking ties is required.

Predictably, Jeff Bezos’ newspaper calls America’s announced exit “a grave mistake” that will lead to not only more of our own citizens dying from various diseases but also the return of deadly childhood maladies around the world.

Designated as Executive Order 13987, President Trump’s directive cites “the organization’s mishandling of COVID-19 …  its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”

Trump’s order also notes that the United States has been paying far more than any other country, stating, “China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO.”

Excessive dues and the mishandling of the COVID outbreak aren’t the only problems with the WHO, which is unapologetically pro-abortion.

“Abortion is a common health intervention,” states the WHO. “It is very safe when carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to the pregnancy duration and by someone with the necessary skills. However, around 45% of abortions are unsafe. Unsafe abortion is an important preventable cause of maternal deaths and morbidities.”

In fact, abortion isn’t a “common health intervention” but rather the killing of innocent life. It’s also not safe. Statistically speaking, one hundred percent of children involved in abortion die. It’s certainly not “safe” for the child.

Shortly after Roe’s reversal, the WHO called for the “full decriminalization of abortion” and advocated against any laws that restrict the killing of preborn children or have any gestational limits. In other words, the global so-called health organization is in favor of abortion on-demand.

How exactly does that improve women’s or the world’s health?

The World Health Organization claims an interest in protecting and preserving every life minus the most innocent in the womb.

Critics of the decision warn America’s departure will not only lead to a global health crisis but also create a leadership vacuum likely filled by China. 

Consisting of 194 member states, the WHO has received anywhere from between $163 million and $816 million annually from the United States. With dues from other nations and ongoing fundraising efforts, the organization’s most recent budget was just over $10 billion. 

In addition to struggling to corral the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has been criticized for bungling the 2014 Ebola outbreak in western Africa, as well as its past failure to eradicate malaria.

But any organization claiming to center its existence on a foundation of saving lives only to champion the killing of the most innocent surrenders any moral authority it may have one day enjoyed.

In a statement issued from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO concluded:

We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the USA and WHO, for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe.

If they’re truly serious about protecting the world’s health, the WHO would be wise to protect every life in the world, including babies in the womb.

Image from Shutterstock.

Written by Paul Batura · Categorized: Life · Tagged: abortion

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