EXCLUSIVE: Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole, Pro-Lifers Call For Senate To Defund Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON—Top conservative voices are calling on the United States Senate to “act immediately” to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, citing concerns not only about the massive number of abortions the group facilitates every year, but also the abortion giant’s promotion of transgender hormones.

In a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose, whistleblower Eithan Haim, Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson, and other prominent life advocates remind the Senate that the language to defund Planned Parenthood is currently included in the “Big Beautiful Bill” — and if the Senate has the guts, they write, it will keep and pass the provision.

It is an unusual coalition, merging pro-life leaders and individuals who are outspoken on the harms of transgender ideology. The culture wars of the past few years have united many Americans who heretofore would have considered themselves on opposite sides of many political issues, particularly abortion, as they fight to protect the innocence of children.

In this case, the advocates are united in their opposition to Planned Parenthood. The Republican-led House passed the “Big Beautiful Bill” in a 215 to 214 vote early Thursday morning after back-to-back, all-night sessions in the Rules Committee and on the House floor. And these advocates are anxious that the provision defunding Planned Parenthood remains in the Senate version of the bill.

“Today, Planned Parenthood is the second leading provider of transgender hormones in the nation,” the letter states. “Live Action’s latest undercover report has revealed a horrific reality: Planned Parenthood facilities across the country are prescribing life-altering cross-sex hormones to minors as young as 16 years old, without requiring therapy, a mental health evaluation, or prior documentation.”

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“Known to cause sterilization, stunted growth, and irreversible physical and psychological harm, these experimental drugs are even being dispensed virtually, often on the same day an appointment is requested,” the letter continues. 

It also points out that Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain, “responsible for the killing of over 400,000 preborn babies each year.”

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“Now, by expanding into the gender-transition industry, it compounds its record of harm by pushing sterilizing drugs on minors for profit,” the letter states. “While committing these atrocities, Planned Parenthood receives nearly $800 million annually in taxpayer dollars: a staggering figure that should alarm every American.” 

Another concern for the activists involved with the letter: Planned Parenthood’s involvement in sex education in public schools.

The abortion giant has a well-documented history of crafting sexual education materials about gender ideology and sexuality that, according to the leaders writing to the Senate, are “designed to funnel our children into the organization’s highly lucrative abortion and hormone-treatment pipelines.” 

“Congress must no longer allow this child abuse to continue,” they write. “The current reconciliation bill includes a critical provision to defund Planned Parenthood. We strongly urge you to ensure this provision remains intact and is enacted into law.”

“No entity engaged in the mass killing and chemical sterilization of American children should receive a single cent from the federal government,” the letter adds. “Any member of Congress who refuses to support this defunding effort, especially those claiming to defend life and promote family, is complicit in the ongoing exploitation of both born and preborn children.”

Other signers include Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life America; Josh Mercer, the vice president of CatholicVote; Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee; John Bruchalski, the founder of Tepeyac OBGYN Divine Mercy Care; Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood worker and the CEO and Founder of And Then There Were None, and others.

“Planned Parenthood is committing unconscionable abuse — killing over 400,000 preborn children each year and now pushing potentially sterilizing trans drugs on vulnerable minors,” Lila Rose told The Daily Wire on Thursday.

“No organization that profits from the destruction and mutilation of children should receive a single cent of taxpayer money,” she added. “I urge Congress to keep the defunding provision in the reconciliation bill and pass the bill. Anything less is complicity.”

During a White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon, The Daily Wire asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt whether the president is committed to ensuring that the provision to defund Planned Parenthood stays in the “Big Beautiful Bill” as it passes through the Senate.

“The president has maintained a very clear commitment to ensuring that this administration and the American people’s tax dollars are not funding any institution; that includes hospital systems that are funding the chemical castration and mutilation of children,” Leavitt responded. “We are not going to tolerate taxpayer dollars going to such efforts.”