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Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day.

The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology,

and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. People talk about one step forward and two steps back.

Well, maybe the case of federal funding for Planned Parenthood was one step forward and then just one step back.

Back where we, well, back where we began with

Planned Parenthood getting taxpayer dollars. Part of it has to do with the will of our politicians

and part of it has to do with some real policy changes, maybe a political victory for the pro-life

cause. Welcome back to Issues CETRA. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about federal funding for

Planned Parenthood, Dr. Michael Neue. He's visiting assistant professor of social research

and political science at the Catholic University of America, senior associate scholar at the Charlotte

Lozier Institute, Page Comstock Cunningham Fellow, with Americans United for Life and a columnist for National Review online. Dr. New, welcome back.

Thanks, Chadby. Much appreciated. Why did the federal ban on Planned Parenthood funding

expire? Well, what happened is last year they were able to stop Planned Parenthood

from getting federal funding for the

2026 fiscal year and that fiscal year has now ended and we're now in fiscal year

2007 and Congress failed to extend that defund so that's why Planned Parenthood is now

eligible for federal funding what kind of federal money is now available to Planned Parenthood?

The main source of money they can get now is money through federal Medicaid dollars. When they

do various health procedures, they can now get reimbursement, federal Medicaid dollars. There's some

contraception programs that are funded by the federal government. They can also get money from.

But their main source of federal funding is through Medicaid.

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