❓WHAT HAPPENED: A new poll reveals strong opposition among American voters to taxpayer funding for organizations involved in abortions and child sex changes.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Life Leadership Conference, registered voters, and organizations like Planned Parenthood.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The overwhelming majority of Americans strongly oppose their tax dollars bankrolling organizations that target minors for irreversible, sterilizing sex-change treatments and abortions—especially without parental involvement or consent.” – David Bereit.
🎯IMPACT: The poll highlights bipartisan opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion and so-called “gender-affirming care” for children.
A new poll conducted by the Life Leadership Conference reveals that 64 percent of registered voters oppose taxpayer funding for organizations that provide puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and other gender transition treatments for minors. Among these, 51 percent strongly opposed such funding.
The poll found significant opposition across political lines, with 76 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of independents against such funding. Democrats were evenly split at 44 percent in favor and 44 percent opposed. Executive Director of the Life Leadership Conference, David Bereit, commented, “The overwhelming majority of Americans strongly oppose their tax dollars bankrolling organizations that target minors for irreversible, sterilizing sex-change treatments and abortions — especially without parental involvement or consent.”
Further questions in the poll addressed taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, particularly in light of recent investigations by Live Action, which found the organization providing hormone treatments to minors as young as 16 with limited parental consent or medical oversight. Sixty percent of voters opposed taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, while 32 percent supported it.
When asked about funding organizations that provide abortions to minors without parental notification or consent, 67 percent of respondents opposed such funding, with 27 percent in favor. Opposition was strong among Republicans (79 percent) and independents (69 percent), but 53 percent of Democrats also expressed disapproval.
Bereit added, “Taxpayer funding should uplift American families, not Planned Parenthood—an organization actively undermining parents and harming children.”
President Donald J. Trump already halted all federal funding for transgender treatments for children earlier his year via executive order, though some healthcare facilities have chosen to ignore the directive.
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