'Slap in the face': Conservatives aghast as White House restores Planned Parenthood funds

Anti-abortion Republicans expressed outrage after the White House said it was restoring Biden-era Planned Parenthood grants.

White House officials told conservative outlet The Daily Wire that the funding was being restored due to legal challenges. According to the report, funds were expected to be provided to Planned Parenthood through next year.

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser lashed out at the Trump administration on Tuesday.

"This is an inexplicable slap in the face to the pro-life GOP base," she told The Daily Wire. "Three out of 4 GOP base voters support defunding Planned Parenthood. One third of those voters say they'd be less enthusiastic about voting this November if the GOP abandons pro-life policies."

Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins accused the White House of selectively following the law.

"If we are going to claim we must follow 'the rules' to fund abortion vendors, then we should also enforce the law that prohibits mailing Chemical Abortion Pills," Hawkins wrote on X. "The Comstock Act is already federal law, and it makes it ILLEGAL to traffic dangerous abortion drugs by mail. That law is being ignored thousands of times every single day, as we said in our letter to [Attorney General Pam Bondi] JUST EARLIER TODAY."

"The Trump Administration doesn't get to ignore federal law when it comes to the predatory abortion industry and then reward the same industry with more taxpayer dollars!" she added.

White House spokesperson Kush Desai defended the administration, citing "significant legal challenges."

"The administration has issued the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency," he noted. "The administration faced significant legal challenges in stopping any of these dollars from going out."

"Title X funds cannot be used for abortions by law and, consistent with President Trump's Executive Order on Enforcing the Hyde Amendment, the Administration remains committed to realigning the Title X program with the President's pro-life and pro-family agenda going forward," Desai insisted.