Pro-Life Wins, Big Eva Sins

Pro-Life Evangelicals Are Justified for Voting for Trump in 2024

By Mike Sabo

American Reformer

March 28, 2025

The political wins on abortion are not letting up. Christians who voted for the Trump/Vance ticket are being rewarded for their selection in real time.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday afternoon that the Trump administration will be freezing $120 million in federal family-planning grants (the Department of Health and Human Services will freeze $27.5 million immediately) to organizations that may have used those funds to advance DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion. The abortion giant Planned Parenthood is among these groups. They were set to receive roughly $20 million in grants in 2025 for their “clinics” in approximately 12 states (there are almost 600 such facilities in the United States, and 49 affiliates across the nation).  

Alexis McGill Johnson, the current President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said, “The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they’ll end people’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it.”

But the data contradict that claim. The Charlotte Lozier Institute reports that while other services Planned Parenthood offers, like cancer screenings, are down significantly (17%), abortion is booming. “For every adoption referral in 2021-22, Planned Parenthood performed 228 abortions,” the Lozier Institute notes. Their study finds that in 2021-2022, “abortions made up 97.1% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy resolution services.” Overall, they provide around 35% of abortions in the United States. The Lozier Institute found that between October 2021 and September 2022, the abortion mill performed 392,715 abortions, a 5% increase from the previous year, and a 10% increase over the last 10 annual reports. 

Contrary to their public rhetoric, abortion is, in fact, the core component of what Planned Parenthood does. Earlier this year, a New York Times investigation found that Planned Parenthood’s “national leaders [have] prioritized the fight for abortion rights over finding a more sustainable way to fund health care.” If abortion is central to Planned Parenthood’s mission—and if abortion is a perfectly legitimate “health service” like they claim—why not simply acknowledge this rather than lie about what they do?

The federal money spigot being turned down follows on the heels of the closure of Planned Parenthood’s only facility in Manhattan as it tries to make up for a $31 million deficit. Facilities in states across the nation are experiencing effects from these monetary difficulties. For example, “Planned Parenthood of Northern New England expects to run an $8 million deficit over the next three years.” 

Overall, the Times found that “Planned Parenthood’s health care operation has shrunk from a high of 5 million patients served across 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today, with staff members complaining that patient care is compromised by low salaries, chronic understaffing, high turnover, inadequate training and aging facilities.” The reporters point to the government’s response to COVID and rising health costs as the main culprits of Planned Parenthood’s financial troubles. 

While the decrease in abortions Planned Parenthood performs is certainly cause for celebration, the numbers the Lozier Institute cited show that they are still an abortion powerhouse. Christians should continue to work to change hearts and minds about abortion, while Christian politicians on the local, state, and federal levels must do everything they can to shut down the abortion giant.

Another hit to Planned Parenthood came this week when President Trump stated that his administration will be looking into their harvesting of organs from aborted babies. 

That scandal was first uncovered by pro-life activist David Daleiden and journalist Sandra Merritt in 2015. Though their felony charges were recently dropped, Daleiden and Merritt were hounded by the State of California for 10 years. They released a series of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees gleefully trafficking in the body parts of aborted babies. John Stonestreet and Timothy Padgett noted in a recent article at Breakpoint that these videos “recorded Planned Parenthood employees bragging about their ability to ‘pull off a leg or two’ and secure ‘livers and cardiac’ tissue. Another joked that if people were to hear that they were haggling over legs, ‘…they’d be like, “You are [expletive] evil!’”

Since Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, his administration has taken numerous steps to save babies on the federal level, including reinstating the Mexico City policy and reinforcing the Hyde Amendment. Though a federal ban is not possible right now (Republicans simply don’t have the votes in Congress), the president has done what he promised he’d do while on the campaign trail. Babies are being saved, and Christians are rightfully feeling justified for voting for the Trump/Vance ticket last November. These practical victories on abortion are only possibly because of a Trump victory in the 2024 election.

Going forward, the Trump administration should do everything they can to shut down Planned Parenthood and work toward ending the holocaust of abortion.  

Compare Trump’s actions with those of Big Eva’s favorite scientist, former NIH Director Francis Collins, who retired in late February. Collins, reports Science, “followed Obama’s order to loosen rules for stem cell research…and has defended fetal tissue research despite criticism from antiabortion groups.” According to the Discovery Institute’s John G. West, Collins “championed” the “harvesting of baby parts from late term abortions for scientific research, the marginalization of Christian scientists who are skeptical of unguided Darwinian evolution, the embrace of the LGBTQIA+ movement, and most recently, the demonization and persecution of Christians who had conscience issues with the COVID vax.” 

Francis Collins is the man whom Big Eva voices like Russell Moore, David French, and Ed Stetzer, among others, remain proud to stand with and see as an exemplary Christian public servant. If you wonder why vast swaths of evangelicals are losing trust in their institutions, look no further than Big Eva’s nearly lockstep backing of Collins. 

Fortunately, NIH is now in much better hands with a man Collins tried his best to discredit and slander: Jay Bhattacharya, whom the Senate confirmed on a party-line vote this week. Bhattacharya, who is a Christian, will not get the glowing coverage of his predecessor in Christianity Today, but he will be a far, far better example than Collins of how a Christian in a high-profile position should serve the nation.

However, if elite evangelicals like David French (along with his wife Nancy), Ray Ortlund, and others had their way, the opposite would be happening: Bhattacharya would never have been selected to lead NIH, and abortion-on-demand propaganda would be trumpeted from all the high places. 

They publicly backed the radical leftist candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, French doing so in New York Times op-eds and Ortlund on social media. A Harris administration would have directed even more taxpayer dollars toward killing babies in the womb and voiced constant support for abortion in speeches, proclamations, and public pronouncements, prodding Americans into believing a murderous lie. Fortunately, most evangelicals have far better political instincts than those in Big Eva, whose paper-thin theology seems nothing more than a defense of the moral consensus of the 21st century. 

It was a mistake for Christians not to vote for Trump and Vance—not only because of the evils they’re actively preventing but also for the good they’re doing for babies. But those in the evangelical elite circles who actively supported the radical left ticket of Harris/Walz—the most leftist presidential ticket in American history—need to publicly repent (and if they don’t, church discipline needs to begin). They voted for allowing men in women’s bathrooms, continued non-enforcement of our southern border, and wokeness and DEI over merit and the rule of law—evils that are far greater than the supposed threat posed by the fascist bogeyman of their own making. Those in Big Eva who shilled for the Party of Death have completely undermined any moral standing they once had, and shouldn’t be listened to on any matter of morality, theology, or ethics.