WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has proposed an amendment to extend the current ban on Planned Parenthood funding for another decade, before it expires later this year.

Last July, President Donald Trump signed into law his controversial “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (BBB), a wide-ranging policy package that includes a one-year ban on federal tax dollars going through Medicaid to entities that commit abortions for reasons other than rape, incest, or supposed threats to the mother’s life.

However, that provision is slated to expire this July, so Hawley’s proposed amendment to the latest Senate Budget Resolution would extend the ban through 2035. The amendment reflects a demand that a coalition of pro-life leaders recently expressed in writing to Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune, that extending defunding for a decade “would represent one of the most meaningful pro-taxpayer reforms Congress can enact.”

“Taxpayer dollars should never fund Planned Parenthood’s abortions or gender insanity,” the lawmaker said on Wednesday.

Cutting off federal funds to the abortion industry is an issue on which Trump’s second term most closely resembles the pro-life record of his first.

Within weeks of returning to office, Trump began enforcing the Hyde Amendment, which bans direct federal funding of most abortions; reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which forbids non-governmental organizations from using taxpayer dollars for most abortions abroad; and cut millions in pro-abortion subsidies by freezing U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spending. 

The White House’s budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year contains numerous pro-life provisions, renewing the Hyde Amendment, the Hyde-Weldon Amendment against funding entities that discriminate against pro-life healthcare providers, and the Kemp-Kasten provision against funding any organization involved in coercive abortion programs. It also forbids State Department grants from going to organizations that commit or promote abortions, bans any funding of research involving the use of aborted babies’ tissue or cells, requires medical students to have to consciously opt in to any abortion training they might take rather than being required by default and having to opt out, blocks funding of abortions in federal prison, bans funds from going to most abortions via the Peace Corps and Federal Health Employee Benefits program, and more.

However, White House budget proposals are not binding, and actual budgets typically end up falling far short after working their way through Congress. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has reportedly ruled out including a renewal of Planned Parenthood’s aforementioned defunding in the upcoming reconciliation bill, in the interest of passing a clean renewal of funding for the Department of Homeland Security and with it the president’s deportation agenda.

The administration also angered pro-lifers recently by renewing Biden-era Title X grants to Planned Parenthood for one more year. The White House claims it was bound by law to do so but stressed that this would be the final year. Pro-lifers have urged Trump to reinstate his first term’s Protect Life Rule, which required complete “financial and physical” separation between Title X recipients and involvement with abortion.

To end the cycle of uncertainty of having to periodically fight for temporary defunding measures at regular budget intervals, pro-lifers have also called for new standalone laws to fully and permanently defund the abortion industry: the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which permanently bans federal funds from being used for abortion; and the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which disqualifies Planned Parenthood and its affiliates specifically. But they would require 60 votes to make it through the Senate.