Catholic News Agency reports (January 14, 2026) on House Republican efforts to permanently defund Planned Parenthood through budget legislation. The Republican Study Committee framework seeks to extend temporary bans on Medicaid reimbursements to abortion providers enacted in the 2025 tax overhaul, which caused 70 Planned Parenthood facility closures. While praised by National Right to Life as protecting “unborn Americans,” the proposal remains trapped in the modernist fallacy that incremental political tinkering can substitute for Christ’s social kingship.
Political Calculation Replaces Moral Imperative
The article describes Republican priorities as “crafting a bill to permanently defund” abortion providers while noting President Trump’s call for “flexibility” on abortion funding language. This transactional approach betrays the doctrina catholica (Catholic doctrine) that abortion constitutes homicidium innocentium (murder of innocents) demanding absolute opposition, not compromise. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) condemned abortion as “the direct murder of the innocent” regardless of circumstances – a truth abandoned when legislation permits exceptions for “negotiations surrounding extensions to health care subsidies.”
“The original House proposal last year planned a 10-year freeze, but it was reduced to only one year following negotiations and compromise.”
This admission of moral surrender reveals the bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s “pro-life” posturing. As St. Augustine teaches in De Civitate Dei, temporal peace sought without reference to the eternal City constitutes merely pax diaboli (the devil’s peace). The framework’s focus on “$2.9 billion in federal spending costs” exemplifies naturalism that Pius XII decried as substituting economic calculations for divine law.
Omission of the Church’s Social Doctrine
Nowhere does the article reference the Regnum Christi (Kingship of Christ) over civil societies, despite quoting political actors invoking “American families” and “taxpayer dollars.” Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) established that “rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ,” yet the Republican plan reduces abortion to a budgetary line item rather than crimen laesae maiestatis divinae (crime of divine majesty).
The silence on contraception – Planned Parenthood’s primary activity – constitutes material cooperation with evil. Pius XI’s condemnation of “preventive methods” (Casti Connubii §54) remains binding, yet the article celebrates funding restrictions limited solely to abortion. This schizophrenic approach flows from the neo-church’s embrace of the “separate spheres” heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which rejected the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55).
Modernist Language Conceals Apostasy
Linguistic analysis reveals the conciliar corruption underlying the report:
1. Relativization of Murder: Describing Planned Parenthood as providing “non-abortive services” employs the neo-church’s casuistry to legitimize an intrinsically evil organization. The Holy Office under St. Pius X would have mandated calling it an officina mortis (workshop of death).
2. Democratization of Moral Law: Praising Republican majorities (“narrow five-seat majority”) implies morality derives from political consensus rather than divine mandate. The Syllabus condemned the error that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Proposition 39).
3. Naturalistic Reductionism: Framing abortion funding bans as saving “$2.9 billion” reduces moral theology to utilitarianism. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the proposition that “the Church listening cooperates… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions” (Proposition 6).
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
The article’s omissions prove more damning than its content:
1. No Mention of Excommunication: Canon 2350 §1 of the 1917 Code mandated excommunication for abortion providers and accomplices – a penalty the conciliar sect refuses to impose on Planned Parenthood executives.
2. Silence on Eternal Consequences: Absent is any reference to the fate of abortionists’ souls or the duty of penance. The pre-conciliar Roman Catechism warned that unrepentant abortionists “suffer eternal punishment in hell.”
3. Equivocation on Gender Mutilation: While banning funds for “gender transition/mutilation procedures,” the article never identifies transgenderism as diabolical disorder. Pius X’s Holy Office would have condemned it as scelus contra naturam (crime against nature).
This moral cowardice stems from Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae, which abandoned the Church’s mission to subjugate all nations to Christ the King. Republican efforts to “defund” evil institutions while preserving secularism’s foundations constitute what St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” – Modernism’s attempt to reconcile Christ with the world.
Conclusion: No Salvation Through Appropriations Bills
Until civil leaders publicly consecrate America to the Sacred Heart and submit to the Social Reign of Christ the King, no legislative maneuver can stem the culture of death. As Our Lord warned: “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be uprooted” (Matthew 15:13). The Republican framework – like all conciliar “reforms” – plants in sand what only the Rock of Peter can sustain. True Catholics must reject both the abortion industry and the political structures enabling it, returning to integral Catholic social doctrine professed before 1958.
Source:
House Republican budget plan would permanently defund Planned Parenthood (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.01.2026