After a legal battle that lasted over 5 years, the state of Texas will no longer be funding Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, through the state’s Medicaid program.

According to Hot Air,  the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Texas’ favor in November, after the Texas Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) found that Planned Parenthood had modified abortion procedures to collect aborted baby body parts.

Following that revelation, the OIG terminated the abortion giant’s provider contract, which officially ended on Wednesday, Feb. 3. Additionally, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission rejected Planned Parenthood’s request for a postponement in implementation.

Every year, Planned Parenthood received about $3.1 million in taxpayer funding from Medicaid. An estimated 8,000 Texans use the state’s Planned Parenthood facilities annually, with Houston having the largest abortion facility in the United States.

While Planned Parenthood contended that eliminating funding would hurt women seeking basic health, its former CEO, Leana Wen declared back in 2019 that abortion was the organization’s core mission.

“First, our core mission is providing, protecting and expanding access to abortion and reproductive health care,” Wen tweeted at the time. “We will never back down from that fight – it’s a fundamental human right and women’s lives are at stake.”

Despite the elimination of funding, abortion continues to be a billion-dollar industry for Planned Parenthood nationwide.

According to its annual report, the abortion giant received $616.8 million in government funding nationally, with 90 percent of it coming from Medicaid.

In his first week in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order revoking the pro-life Mexico City Policy. The policy aimed to block non-governmental organizations that promote abortions from receiving federal funds. Nonetheless, according to Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life group, the number of abortion clinics in the country has declined by 35 percent since 2009.

Last month, Operation Rescue published its annual report on the status of abortion facilities in the U.S. The report revealed that Missouri became the first “abortion-free state” in America after the last abortion clinic in the state ceased operations.

The following is from Pro Life Across America

  • 18 days from conception, heart begins to beat, with the baby’s own blood.
  • 28 days from conception a baby has eyes, ears, and even a tongue!
  • 28 days from conception: Muscles are developing along the future spine. Arms and legs are budding.
  • 30 days: Child has grown 10,000 times to 6-7mm (1/4”) long. Brain has human proportions. Blood flows in veins.
  • 42 days: Skeleton is formed. Brain coordinates movement of muscles and organs. Reflex responses have begun.
  • 42 days: Brain waves can be detected, the jaw forms, including teeth and taste buds. The unborn baby begins to swallow amniotic fluid. Fingers and toes are developing.
  • 45 days from conception: The unborn baby is making body movements, a full 12 weeks before the mother may notice such stirrings. By seven weeks the chest and abdomen are fully formed. Swimming with a natural swimmer’s stroke in the amniotic fluid, the baby now looks like a miniature human infant.
  • 44-45 days: Buds of milk teeth appear, and the unborn baby’s facial muscles develop. Eyelids begin to form, protecting the developing eyes. Elbows take shape. Internal organs are present, but immature. 99% of muscles are present, each with its own nerve supply.
  • 52 Days: Spontaneous movement begins. The unborn baby then develops a whole collection of moves over the next 4 weeks including hiccuping, frowning, squinting, furrowing the brow, pursing the lips, moving individual arms and legs, head turning, touching his/her face, breathing (without air), stretching, opening the mouth, yawning and sucking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:14-16

 

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