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Does Scott Perry support defunding Planned Parenthood?

Matches stated direction. He voted for the 2015 Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which did not become law, and the 2025 law barring Medicaid payments for a year to some family-planning providers that perform abortions.

Scott Perry

Defunding Planned Parenthood and abortion funding

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he opposes taxpayer funding of abortion and supports defunding Planned Parenthood.

“supports the defunding of Planned Parenthood”

What the record shows ·

In 2015 he voted for the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which named the group and passed the House 241-187. In 2017 he voted for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which passed the House 238-183. He was an original cosponsor of the 2017 Defund Planned Parenthood Act and of the 2021 and 2023 abortion-funding bans. In 2025 he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whose section 71113 bars Medicaid payments for one year to nonprofit family-planning providers that perform abortions.

Limit: None of the bills naming Planned Parenthood became law. The 2025 law describes a class of providers instead of naming it.

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  1. Patriots for Perry, issueshttps://patriotsforperry.com/issues/

    Patriots for Perry · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Captured 2026-10-01; 1,060 words under twelve headings. Undated; several passages still refer to the Biden-Harris administration.

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  2. House roll call 505, 2015 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage of H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, 2015-09-18. Passed 241-187. Perry (P000605) recorded Aye.

    official legislative record

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  3. H.R. 3134, Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, as passed by the Househttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114hr3134eh/html/BILLS-114hr3134eh.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Section 3 would bar federal funds for one year to Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates and clinics, by name, unless they certified they would not perform abortions.

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  4. House roll call 65, 2017 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage of H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017, 2017-01-24. Passed 238-183. Perry (P000605) recorded Aye.

    official legislative record

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  5. H.R. 7, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, as passed by the House, 2017https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115hr7eh/html/BILLS-115hr7eh.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    New section 301 of title 1: no funds authorized or appropriated by federal law shall be expended for any abortion.

    official legislative record

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  6. H.R. 354, Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2017https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/354

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Diane Black. Perry was an original cosponsor on 2017-01-06, one of 147. Referred to committee; no further action.

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  7. H.R. 7, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2023https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith. Perry was an original cosponsor on 2023-01-09, one of 183. He was also an original cosponsor of the 2021 version, H.R. 18. Neither passed.

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  8. House roll call 190, 2025 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 2025-07-03. Passed 218-214. Perry (P000605) recorded Aye. Became Public Law 119-21. He had voted Yea on House passage on 2025-05-22 (roll 145), which carried 215-214.

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  9. Public Law 119-21 (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Approved July 4, 2025. Section 70101 extends the 2017 lower individual tax rates; section 70105 extends the qualified business income deduction; section 71113 bars Medicaid payments for one year to a class of nonprofit family-planning providers that perform abortions other than in cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman's life. The law does not name Planned Parenthood. Section 90001 funds border infrastructure and wall; section 90003 funds immigration detention capacity. Section 71201 limits Medicare to citizens, permanent residents, Cuban and Haitian entrants and people living here under a Compact of Free Association.

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