Abortion Providers Expose Priorities by Closing Clinics Over Defunding
Portal Catholic News Agency reports that abortion providers such as Maine Family Planning and Planned Parenthood are closing primary care facilities rather than cease abortion services after losing federal Medicaid funding under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The article contrasts this with 8,800 community health centers continuing to offer comprehensive care without abortion, emphasizing that Maine alone has 131 Federally Qualified Health Centers providing life-affirming services. Pro-life leaders argue these closures prove abortion providers prioritize killing the unborn over genuine healthcare.
Abortion Industry’s Calculated Sacrifice of Vulnerable Patients
The closure of primary care operations by Maine Family Planning—which performed over 600 abortions while serving only 600 primary care patients in 2024—exposes the gruesome arithmetic of the abortion regime. As Quas primas declares, “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Pius XI, 1925). These facilities violate this principle by placing the destruction of human life above societal harmony. Their decision to shutter medical services rather than stop abortions confirms St. Pius X’s warning in Lamentabili sane against institutions that make “dogmas…subject to more exact judgments and corrections” (1907) based on utilitarian calculations.
Michael McClellan of Maine Right to Life correctly identifies the moral bankruptcy:
“Why do these organizations close clinics—but not abortion programs?…Federal funding changes simply ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used—directly or indirectly—to promote or perform abortions.”
This echoes Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors of those who claim “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55). Maine Family Planning’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services demonstrates the abortion lobby’s insistence that Caesar fund what belongs to God’s exclusive jurisdiction—the protection of life.
Theological Consequences of Medicalized Child Killing
The article’s reference to Maine Family Planning providing “gender-affirming” health care alongside abortion reveals the ideological nexus between contraceptive imperialism and the cult of man. As the Syllabus condemns those who “place the sanctity of marriage…under the power of the civil authority” (Error 74), so too does this “gender-affirming” charade reject the natural law. The organization’s 24% Medicaid funding dependency proves what Leo XIII identified in Rerum Novarum—the State’s complicity in subsidizing moral decay when it abandons Christ’s kingship.
Kelsey Pritchard’s statement that abortion providers “drop patients’ real health care needs to double down on ending babies’ lives” resonates with Bellarmine’s principle in De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (II:30). By analogy, facilities manifestly prioritizing abortion forfeit any claim to be healthcare providers. The 8,800 community health centers cited by Charlotte Lozier Institute fulfill the true corporal works of mercy without violating the Fifth Commandment—unlike abortion mills masquerading as clinics.
Omissions Exposing Conciliar Apostasy
While correctly noting alternatives like pregnancy resource centers, the article fails to condemn the greater scandal: so-called Catholic politicians who fund abortion through Medicaid expansions. This silence reflects the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Pius XI’s mandate in Quas primas that rulers must “publicly honor and obey” Christ the King. The report’s secular framing—discussing “federal funding changes” without invoking divine judgment—ignores the supernatural reality that every abortion crucifies Christ anew in His mystical body.
McClellan’s description of pro-life support networks inadvertently highlights the true Church’s enduring presence amid modernist collapse. When he references “faith communities… providing free pregnancy testing” and “material assistance,” he echoes the Roman Catechism’s injunction that charity must “support the weak [and] console the sorrowful” (II:5). That authentic Catholic action continues despite the conciliar sect’s frequent complicity with abortion ideology proves Christ’s promise: “The gates of hell shall not prevail” (Matthew 16:18).
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Fact check: Does defunding abortion providers take primary care from patients? (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 04.11.2025