Pull out your calendar for a minute. Mark off every third day this month with a red X. Then step back and take a look. Every third day, Planned Parenthood will have killed the same number of people who died in 9/11. 

And your taxes fund them. This must stop.               

This March, Tony Perkins (President of Family Research Council) interviewed U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), a powerful pro-life voice who was pushing a bill to defund Planned Parenthood. (And this May, the U.S. House did pass a budget bill that, according to anti-abortion and pro-abortion sources, cuts funding for Planned Parenthood.) 

During that interview, Smith explained that Planned Parenthood has performed over 10 million abortions since 1973, now killing 1,000 babies every day. 

Many of us know that Adolf Hitler killed over six million Jews in the Holocaust. But this single abortion provider has already dwarfed Hitler murder toll here at home—and legally. Remember also that just under 3,000 people died in the 9/11 attacks. This means that about every third day—each Monday and Thursday, give or take—Planned Parenthood kills more people than those terrorists who flew airliners into skyscrapers. 

And they do this with government funding–your tax dollars.

Perkins observed that, according to the numbers from 2023 and 2024, Planned Parenthood received almost $700 million dollars in taxpayer funding. It’s one thing when the government doesn’t do anything to stop murder. It’s another thing when the government legalizes it. 

But it’s another thing altogether when the government makes you pay the institution that commits it. 

So we should wholeheartedly support this effort to defund the abortion giant. Now that we have a Republican-controlled White House, U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Senate, this may finally be our chance. 

But there’s more to this story. Incremental moves like “defunding Planned Parenthood” can be effective, but they can also be deceptive. If we’re not careful, we’ll start teaching ourselves that we only stand for incremental causes.

Consider this: Planned Parenthood is not the only abortion provider in the U.S. While Smith points out that Planned Parenthood has performed over 10 million abortions since the 1970’s, the total abortion count in America is well over 60 million—ten times the number of Jews in the Holocaust.

Not only that, but realize also that taxpayer dollars are not the only source of Planned Parenthood’s funding. Later in the interview, Perkins observed that Planned Parenthood raised $500 million dollars after Roe v. Wade was overturned. And of course, the abortion giant continually makes money as it is allowed to conduct business openly all over America.

Finally, we all should believe that abortion should be illegal, not just “unsupported by taxpayer dollars.” Removing government support from a crime is only the first step to getting rid of the crime. 

We should never deceive ourselves into thinking that all will be well once we defund Planned Parenthood. Things will only be “marginally less evil.” 

We should make no promises that we will stop here. Rather, it should be merely the beginning of our building momentum toward a completely abortion-free nation.

So in this light, we support defunding Planned Parenthood because we believe that abortion is murder and murder is always wrong and should be punished with the full force of the law. And defunding the abortion giant is a tiny (introductory) piece of that. 

But I will not be satisfied once Planned Parenthood is defunded. I won’t be satisfied until all abortion clinics are forced to shut down and abortionists—and mothers and fathers who request and consent to abortions—face legal penalties for their crimes. 

Only then would I believe God’s will is truly being done.

Now, God doesn’t always give us His kingdom in one piece, so I will snatch at whatever slivers I’m able to achieve right now. But I will not lull myself into thinking that our goal is to “defund Planned Parenthood.” 

I will not be elated when Planned Parenthood is defunded, I will only be marginally less mournful. And it will inspire me to push even harder to win the next battle for those babies’ lives.

So by all means, we should defund Planned Parenthood. But we should never believe it is our ultimate goal. As the proverb goes, the journey of a thousand miles may start with a single step. 

But it can never end there.