Trump’s Funding Restoration to Planned Parenthood Exposes Moral Bankruptcy of Secular Governance
Catholic News Agency reported on January 14, 2026 that the Trump administration restored Title X funding to Planned Parenthood through Department of Health and Human Services reimbursements for “non-abortion services,” provoking controversy within the pro-life movement. While President Trump claimed ignorance of the decision, organizations like Live Action condemned the move as subsidizing an abortion giant that destroys over 1,000 unborn children daily. The article notes this reversal occurred despite the administration’s failure to reinstate the previous “Protect Life Rule” blocking abortion providers from accessing these funds.
Naturalistic Fallacy of Separating “Services” From Murderous Enterprise
The article’s central deception lies in accepting the legal fiction that funding “birth control and other non-abortion services” constitutes morally neutral activity. This violates the principle of cooperation with evil (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Theologia Moralis), which holds that materially supporting an intrinsically evil organization remains sinful regardless of specified fund usage. Pius XI condemned such sophistry in Casti Connubii (1930):
“Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature” (¶54).
By restoring funding to an organization that distributes contraceptives and commits abortions, the administration engages in formal cooperation with sins crying to heaven for vengeance. The article’s focus on Hyde Amendment restrictions reveals a modernist obsession with legal technicalities over divine law – a mentality condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors:
“Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Proposition 3).
Betrayal of Pro-Life Promises and the Duty of Civil Authority
The Trump administration’s actions demonstrate the inevitable failure of secular leaders to uphold justice when disconnected from Catholic principles. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) establishes that Christ’s kingship extends to civil governance:
“Rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (¶32).
Lila Rose’s shock at the funding restoration exposes the naivete of relying on political processes divorced from the Social Reign of Christ the King. The article’s mention of past Republican efforts like the “Protect Life Rule” inadvertently proves the futility of temporary regulatory fixes within a fundamentally anti-Christian legal system. As the Syllabus declares:
“The Roman pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80 – condemned error).
Pro-Life Movement’s Fatal Compromise With Incrementalism
The article reveals the spiritual bankruptcy of mainstream pro-life activism through its focus on funding restrictions rather than abortion’s intrinsic evil. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s demand to “immediately reinstate” the Protect Life Rule constitutes implicit acceptance of legalized child murder under other circumstances – a position anathematized by the Council of Trent (Session XXV, Decree on Reformation). This incrementalist heresy stems from the modernist error condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane:
“The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26 – condemned error).
The movement’s silence about the administration approving generic mifepristone – a chemical weapon against both unborn children and maternal health – confirms its surrender to utilitarian politics. True Catholic resistance would echo Archbishop Lefebvre’s 1987 warning: “One cannot collaborate with a regime that officially promotes abortion” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics).
Conclusion: Only Christ’s Reign Brings Justice
This funding scandal proves that no political solution can resolve a crisis rooted in societal apostasy. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, lasting peace requires “states allowed themselves to be governed by Christ” (¶19). Until civil leaders acknowledge the Social Kingship of Christ and the subordination of temporal power to spiritual authority (Pius IX, Syllabus Proposition 55 condemned error), such moral betrayals will continue. The restoration of Planned Parenthood funding serves as divine chastisement for a nation that has enthroned secular humanism over the One True Faith.
Source:
Trump administration restores Title X funding to Planned Parenthood (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.01.2026