Trump Administration Cuts Millions of Dollars to Planned Parenthood Sex-Education Programs

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Late last month the Trump administration moved to eliminate millions of dollars in grant money to Planned Parenthood and other organizations teaching comprehensive sex-education to teens.

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program traces its roots back to former President Obama in 2010. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded federal grant money to “evidence-based programs” designed to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Under the program, organizations — including Planned Parenthood — were able to apply for federal funds to teach these teen pregnancy prevention programs.

But evaluations showed the programs generally turned out to be either ineffective or counterproductive.

For example, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest received $4 million to teach teen pregnancy prevention. An official evaluation later found that students were actually more likely to become pregnant after going through Planned Parenthood’s program — not less.

In other words, Planned Parenthood’s multimillion dollar sex-education program did exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do.

On June 26, HHS announced it would not renew most of the pregnancy prevention grants offered under this program.

The Daily Signal obtained a cancellation letter saying after reviewing the teen pregnancy prevention curricula, HHS “believes that some curricula normalize adolescent sexual activity and are not age appropriate, as they contain overly sexually explicit or pornographic content that is not necessary to achieve the TPP program’s statutory mission.”

The grant money comes to a total of $67 million.

Arkansas knows from experience that Planned Parenthood’s comprehensive sex-education is not the way to go.

In the 1980s and 1990s, public officials in Arkansas promoted comprehensive sex-education, but the programs failed to have a meaningful impact on teen pregnancy and abortion in the state.

But in 1997 the Arkansas Legislature and Governor Mike Huckabee began promoting abstinence education in Arkansas.

From 1997 to 2005, Arkansas’ teen birthrate decreased 17%, and Arkansas’ teen abortion rate plummeted a staggering 48%.

Governor Huckabee’s abstinence education model was so successful in Arkansas that it drew national recognition.

Given all of this, it seems like the Trump administration is making the right call by cancelling these teen pregnancy prevention grants.

The Daily Signal says that besides canceling these grants to Planned Parenthood and other organizations, “HHS announced two new grant opportunities that promote body literacy in place of radical gender ideology, abortion, and contraception. The opportunities will ‘focus on programs that do not promote material that depicts, describes, exposes, or presents obscene, indecent, or sexually explicit content, including content that normalizes or promotes sexual activity for minors.'”

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Planned Parenthood PAC Reports No Arkansas Activity During Final Quarter of 2025

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Planned Parenthood’s most recent political action committee report shows the organization did not spend any money campaigning in Arkansas during the final three months of 2025.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortionist. In 2024, the group endorsed two candidates running for the Arkansas House of Representatives. In 2020, Planned Parenthood Federation announced it would spend at least $45 million working to unseat pro-life lawmakers and elect candidates who support abortion. As part of that plan, the group used its political action committee in Arkansas to support candidates for state and federal office.

Planned Parenthood’s website says its 2026 candidate endorsements for Arkansas are “coming soon.”

However, Planned Parenthood has spent no money campaigning in Arkansas so far this election cycle. That’s a good thing.

Planned Parenthood’s PAC has roughly $11,400 at its disposal right now. It remains to be seen what role the organization will play in Arkansas in the coming months.

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Court Clears Way for Trump to Defund Planned Parenthood

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Above: Planned Parenthood’s closest abortion facility to Arkansas, located in Southeast Kansas.

On December 12, a federal appeals court handed the pro-life movement a major victory. The court ruled that the Trump administration can strip Planned Parenthood of its Medicaid funding.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s injunction that had blocked a key provision in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” preventing taxpayer dollars from going to abortionists through Medicaid. The provision effectively defunds Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business.

Planned Parenthood had argued the law violated their constitutional rights, but the court said Congress is free to decide how to spend taxpayer dollars.

Judge Gelpí explained that the law doesn’t punish Planned Parenthood for past actions. Instead, it simply gives them a choice: Stop doing abortions and keep getting taxpayer money, or keep aborting unborn children and lose the funding.

Planned Parenthood has claimed the funding cut could force them to close as many as 200 facilities.

In Arkansas, abortion is generally prohibited except to save the life of the mother, and the state cut ties with abortionists like Planned Parenthood many years ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states are not required to fund abortionists, and the Arkansas Legislature and the governor have both blocked Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from receiving public tax dollars.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains still operates facilities in Little Rock and Rogers, but neither one performs abortions.

However, reports also show Planned Parenthood may be spending millions of dollars to help women cross state lines for abortion, and news outlets have highlighted how pro-abortion states are protecting abortionists who ship abortion drugs across the country. Those are serious concerns.

But the court ruling is still good news for Arkansas. It shows that Congress has the power to direct taxpayer funding away from abortionists, and it helps underscore that Arkansas lawmakers were right to defund Planned Parenthood.

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