A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to withhold millions in taxpayer-funded grants from Planned Parenthood affiliates to stop its agenda of pushing sex on kids.
The judge ruled the policy unlawfully targeted the abortion giant accused by pro-life advocates of promoting sexual activity and gender ideology to children as young as 11.
District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington issued the 65-page decision striking down a July 2025 Health and Human Services policy notice that redefined “age appropriate” and “medically accurate” sex education standards to align with executive orders barring “gender ideology” and “radical indoctrination” in federal initiatives.
The ruling, which restores full funding to Planned Parenthood’s programs, allows tax dollars to flow to the grants that fuel school-based efforts to normalize sex, abortion, and LGBTQ+ agendas in classrooms and after-school clubs, often without parental consent.
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The plaintiffs — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, Planned Parenthood of California Central Coast and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland — administer five-year Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grants totaling $35,149,200 over the period, with annual tax-funded awards of $7,029,840. Established under the Obama administration in 2010, the program shifted federal dollars from abstinence education to Planned Parenthood’s abortion and sexual agenda.
Howell ruled that HHS overstepped its authority under the Administrative Procedure Act by imposing what he called vague, politically motivated restrictions without evidence or public process.
He claimed provisions barring “harmful ideologies” or “normalizing sexual activity” “too unclear to enforce consistently.
But leading pro-life and pro-family groups say Planned Parenthood is working in concert with liberal schools to push sex and abortion on children.
They point to an after-school LGBTQ+ club called The Spectrum, hosted at Planned Parenthood clinics offering gender-affirming hormone therapy and surgery referrals, where teens 14-21 explored topics like turning condoms into dental dams for oral sex, painting naked “transgender” bodies and playing “queer Jeopardy” — all under a strict confidentiality policy that bars discussing activities outside meetings to avoid “outing” participants.”
Everything that is said here stays here. Don’t ‘out’ anyone outside of the program,” states the club’s LGBTQ+ Youth Program Guide appendix.
Wenger, chief counsel at the Independence Law Center at PA Family Institute, decried such initiatives as undermining parental rights.
“We encourage the district to prioritize empowering parents and focus on fostering an educational environment that values transparency, accountability, and parental involvement,” Wenger said. “Schools should be places where parents and educators work together to support students.”
Similar programs abound nationwide, with Planned Parenthood receiving millions in state and federal funds to embed “youth-friendly” clinics and curricula in schools from California to Pennsylvania.
