The Planned Parenthood abortion business is closing more centers – with another 5 closing in northern California thanks to the defunding bill President trump signed that took $300 million in taxpayer dollars away from the abortion giant.
California’s Planned Parenthood affiliates, the state’s largest abortion company, have lost $300 million in federal funding following the new federal law that defunds America’s biggest abortion business.
The congressional reconciliation bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month, prohibits Medicaid reimbursements for nonprofit health clinics that kill babies and receive more than $800,000 in federal funding annually, effectively cutting off federal support for California’s 114 Planned Parenthood clinics.
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte announced the closure of five health centers in Northern California and the Central Coast on Thursday, attributing the decision to federal funding cuts enacted through President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.” The closures, affecting abortion centers in South San Francisco, Gilroy, Seaside, Merced, and North Highlands, mark a significant victory for pro-life advocates who have long sought to redirect taxpayer dollars away from abortion businesses.
The budget reconciliation bill, signed into law on July 4, includes a provision that strips Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers for one year. Pro-life groups hailed the measure as a critical step toward ending federal support for organizations they argue prioritize abortion over comprehensive health care.
The closures impact Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest affiliate of the nation’s leading abortion chain, which operates 34 centers across California and Nevada.
The organization cited the loss of Medicaid reimbursements as the primary reason for shuttering the facilities.
“These closures are a direct result of the Trump administration’s policies targeting Planned Parenthood,” the organization stated.
Pro-life advocates, however, argue that the defunding redirects resources to more comprehensive care providers.
The budget bill’s passage followed a Supreme Court ruling in June 2025 that allowed South Carolina to block Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood, reinforcing the legal framework for the federal provision. The reconciliation process enabled Republicans to bypass a 60-vote Senate threshold, securing the measure with a simple majority.
The debate over Planned Parenthood’s funding is far from over. A federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked the defunding provision on July 7, prompting some affiliates to resume Medicaid services with the expectation of taxpayer funding….
From LifeNews
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Thank God these Planned Parenthood centers are closing. Defund Planned Parenthood. End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
Great… more unemployment in the state. How’s that Trump economy working for y’all?
Trump is giving the abortion mill workers a chance to honor God by getting out of the business. And you take umbrage at this?
Unemployed Abortionists. How sweet the sound.
If the death penalty was allowed, then unemployed abortionists working as an executioners would be a natural fit for their talents and dispositions.
Unemployment? These are murderers. Unemployed “hit men” They make their filthy, bloody Death Money by Murder of unborn children. And they belong in prison– for life, because they are Murderers.
Reply to Trump economy: At least unborn baby children are not being killed. End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
Were abortions performed at any of those centers? Not all PP centers provide abortion services.
Any organization that includes– “Murder of Your Unwanted Baby” — Abortiom– listed among its “services”— is EVIL– and should be immediately shut down by the law. Jesus Christ was put to death by man’s false laws, too– an outrage! Want to get a “legal” job, employed by the Pharisees— and kill Him, too? Like King Herod “legally” ordering the Massacre of the Holy Innocents? Or Hitler, “legally” killing the Jews and other “undesirables?”
Yeah… every grocery store and pharmacy sells prophylactics. Do any of you not shop there because they sell one thing you consider objectionable? The whole business isn’t evil because of one thing. Even if there is one bad thing, there are other good things. Have some nuance.
This is a faithful Catholic principle that nothing is completely evil. Not even satan is completely evil.
Nuanced thinker: This particular business is diabolical and sinister! End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
“Nuance?” Have the courage of a true Christian to stand up and tell the store Manager they are doing wrong. Get your church to oppose the store or pharmacy. Tell your political leaders. Do all you can! How many kids go down to the pharmacy a block from your church– let’s say– and buy birth control– and later, buy abortion pills?? Christians are called to fight these Satanic evils.
We live in a free country, not a Catholic theocracy. MAGAs and TRADs don’t want to accept that. Live and let live.
Your concept of a so-called “free country” is extremely flawed. We have a democratic system of government, with Judeo-Christian Western influences, that enacts laws for the benefit and protection of all citizens. All citizens have basic rights and responsibilities. Nobody is “free.” Whether laws are created based on either religious or non-religious ethical principles, makes no difference. Our country recognizes God, the Supreme Creator– but no state religion. “One Nation Under God.”
UCLA now has to pay $6 million in a legal settlement due to a lawsuit by three Jewish students and one professor, who were prohibited from entering parts of the university campus, in 2024, where pro-Palestinian protesters created a so-called “No Jew Zone.” That is discriminatory and unlawful. Glad we live in America! Freedoms are properly limited by laws mandating respect for others’ rights, and living together respectfully, in peace, as citizens.
You need to understand true Catholic teaching correctly. All mankind was originally created in God’s image. We are all His children. And all mankind is weak and flawed, damaged by SIN. That is why God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins, and save us. As followers of Christ, we are committed to fighting battles against Satan and sin in the world. One great big battle we are fighting, is to end the slaughter of God’s beautiful, helpless unborn children.
There’s more to it than that.
That seems more protestant than catholic. Sounds too old-timey, like baptist. My biggest battle is with myself.
Everyone always will have some personal struggles, lifelong– which Christ helps us with. And He calls us all to set ourselves aside, stop thinking about ourselves, and go help those who are greatly in need. All Christians are called to help ithers, and to fight evil and sin– including the slaughter of God’s helpless unborn children. Talk to your priest and see what you can do to be Christ’s helper!
Read the Bible and Catechism. If you went to Catholic school or to Catechism classes, when young, you would know all of this. It is not “Protestant” or “old-timey.” In the post-Conciliar era, Catholic clerics have not consistently taught the facts of Christ’s life, death and resurrection, and His entire life and death given solely for our redemption of sin. That is also what the Mass is all about.
The priest at Mass reminded us that even those who are sick and homebound, have much to offer Our Lord, through their Rosaries, prayers and sacrifices for those in need. When Bl. Carlo Acutis was dying, he offered up his sufferings for the Pope. Many hours of Adoration, Rosaries, prayers and sacrifices are needed, to convert poor sinners, to end horrible sins and crimes, to end abortion, to stop wars, and to help those in desperate need.
the mass is about the paschal mystery
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is all about Christ’s holy Sacrifice on the Cross to save us from sin. Ven. Abp. Fulton J. Sheen wrote some beauitiful books about this! There are many fine books you can read– including the Catechism.
Lol. I understand that auschwitz didn’t just kill people but provided valuable jobs for both Germans and jews.
Trump saved the US from the Russian tsunami
Some people are single-issue people. There’s more to life.
More: This is the single most important issue in the world today. End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
Which, oddly enough, you have to be actually alive to enjoy.
There is only one important issue in this whole world– to sincerely love and serve the Lord. Nothing else matters.
We’re not God. We can’t do everything. We can’t bend the world to our will. Do what you can. Observe moderation in things. Don’t be a freak or a fanatic. Realize when effort is futile. Realize when effort has a chance at succeeding. Take care of yourself first, then your family, then your friends, then others, as you are able. Not everything depends on you.
As Christians, we are specially prepared and empowered by Jesus Christ, to go out and do good for Him each day, our entire lives. As St. Paul said, “It is not I, but Christ lives in me.” Alone, we can do nothing. But in Him, we can do all things.
If you want something done, you should do it yourself. That’s what I always say.
only if you’re confirmed, and then its the holy spirit that empowers you not jesus
Pope Leo has repeatedly emphasized that Christ is the Source of our strength and inspiration, and that it is only in Him that we can find our inspiration, strength and empowerment to do great things. We should never settle for anything less. And no, Christ is our All– the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity– One God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Doesn’t matter if you are not (yet) confirmed. Christ is our Rock, our Life!
then what’s the point of confirmation? no wonder kids leave the church after being confirmed if it doesn’t mean anything.
Somehow I think that if Pope Francis said it, you wouldn’t be so keen on quoting him. Church politics. But since you like this pope, you jump right to what he says. When Pope Leo says that the old Latin Mass needs to go away, will you still quote him?
Church politics– Pope Leo is new and has been in the news a lot lately. I used his quotes because they are handy. This is a Catholic website. Regardless of who the current pope is, we all should learn our Faith and practice it well. Christ should be the center of our lives.
Wondering– it is good to love and treasure your Faith, learn it well, practice the Catholic Faith well, and teach and inspire your children to learn the Catholic Faith well, and practice it well. Christ must be the center of our lives. The Holy Family is the perfect role model for the Catholic home and family. A good parish with good priests and good programs, is very helpful.
I’ve wondered, how many of the cardinals at the recent conclave, are faithful Catholic believers? Was Pope Leo one of the few with integrity, before Almighty God? That is the most important thing! How many support the wrong beliefs in “Amoris Laetitia” and “Fiducia Supplicans?” How many –like Cardinal Hollerich, and bad German cardinals — have thought of changing the Catechism’s teachings on gays and gay “marriage?” How many have had involvements– like Cardinal “Tucho” Fernandez– in pornography? (Or worse!) Not good.
So nice thst abortion promoter Kamala Harris– who led her 2024 Presidential campaign under the evil banner of Abortion– has now decided to drop out of the California governor’s race, as nobody was interested to support her as a potential Democratic Party nominee.
she has written a new book
This had nothing to do with praying the rosary and everything to do with Trump.
I only pray the rosary at funerals when I’m forced to. I don’t see the point. Means nothing to me. People just saying the same prayer over and over. Jesus taught not to babble in prayer. I pray other ways, with Scripture and in meditation. The rosary? I’m not into it. It was originally for people who couldn’t read as a way for them to symbolically pray all 150 psalms by replacing the psalms with hail Marys. Well, I can read, so I read the psalms and pray them. If the rosary were so great, Mary would have told St. Juan Diego to pray it and given him a rosary that would turn to gold but she didn’t.
No. The Rosary is very holy, a Sacramental. You can receive many beautiful graces through praying the Holy Rosary. When we pray the Rosary, we meditate on the Life of Christ. His Blessed Mother, Mary, leads us to Jesus. It is a very wonderful and beneficial practice, for families to pray the Rosary together, nightly. Try reading “All For Her,” by the Rosary Priest, Ven. Fr. Patrick Peyton– beautiful!
Antonia Acutis, the mother of soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis, said that her son, Carlo, prayed the Rosary daily, along with attending daily Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Mrs. Acutis said that Carlo told her thst “the Rosary is the shortest ladder to Heaven.”
Can’t you medidate on Christ’s life without all those Hail Mary’s getting in the way? Really, I don’t see the point of repeating them ten times, times five, times three. Praying the Hail Mary’s gets in the way of meditating on Christ’s life. I think people who claim they are meditating on Christ’s life during the rosary aren’t being honest. They are just praying rote prayers almost mindlessly. You can do a better job focusing on meditating if you aren’t multi-tasking while praying. Focus on one thing.
St. Therese de Lisieux didn’t like praying the rosary for some of the reasons you mention. She was a saint. The rosary isn’t for everyone, and it’s not magic. I’m one of those who doesn’t care for the rosary. If you like it, good for you. Just don’t force it on me and everyone else by praying it out loud in church before or after Mass when others want to pray their own prayers quietly without your noise.
Really reply to Focus August 4, 2025 at 4:57 pm: ” I think people who claim they are meditating on Christ’s life during the rosary aren’t being honest. ” I for one honestly find meditating on Christ most profitable during the rosary. When dealing with the things of God it is not always wise to liken that experience to the things of man. Otherwise you have put yourself in a position of having to soul-peep everyone’s prayers to guage how well they are meditating on the life of Christ. Our interior lives are not always manifest to the person next to us.
Ask your Catholic mom and dad– or a good priest– how to pray the Holy Rosary– a precious Sacramental– and develop a love and devotion to Our Blessed Mother– as many great Saints have done. You will receive countless graces– and peace of mind. Pope Leo XIV has mentioned to married couples, that his parents prayed the Rosary daily, and he himself, prayed the Rosary nightly, separately, from childhood. So have most Catholics.
EWTN has several different daily broadcasts of the Rosary– and Catholic radio stations, too. Catholic bookstores also sell Rosary recordings. Many young people, today, use online “apps” to help them in praying the Rosary. It might help you to join a Rosary church group. Many of them have Rosary recitations before daily Mass, and you can join in, or even help lead, once you learn.
St.Therese of Lisieux was very young, and struggled with many things– which is very common for those in religious life. The Saint said that she found it difficult to focus on the Mysteries, being distracted, while praying the Rosary. However, she knew that the Rosary was very important for conversion of sinners. It is like a giant chain linking Heaven and earth– so powerful, that even a poorly prayed Rosary brings many graces. This is true– don’t worry! St. Therese persevered, and pleased Our Lady.
It is easier for a busy mother, or for a young child, when praying the Rosary, to state each Mystery and think about its meaning for a moment, and then recite the decade of “Hail Marys.” You can also state your prayer intentions, if you have some. Then go on to the next Mystery and decade. Don’t seek perfection, just relax, knowing that many beautiful graces are coming for you and those for whom you pray.
Was Trump elected because of praying the rosary?
Jesus is in the Gospels. Why do you need anyone to lead you to him when you can just read the Gospels yourself? I think some Catholics overdo the Mary devotions. I really don’t understand why so many Mexican women go gaga over Guadalupe, either. They don’t go to Mass, but every December 12 they are at the parish Guadalupe festival with the mariachi band.
Best for you to talk to a good Catholic priest. The Holy Rosary is not just a religious devotion– it is a holy Sacramental. Very diffetent than Biblical reading and reflectoon. Our Blessed Mother has enormous spiritual power to help people, sending trillions of beautiful graces, as she is the Mother of God– our Co-Mediatrix in Heaven– with her Divine Son, Jesus Christ. Try reading Ven. Fulton J. Sheen’s beautiful book about the Blessed Mother, “The World’s First Love.”
Stop criticizing beautiful, holy Catholic religious devotions– many devout Catholics have been richly blessed by God, through Our Lady’s intercessions, with wonderful graces, miracles and healings. Some have become Saints! Don’t be ignorant. Learn the Catholic Faith, practice it well, and get help from your priest if you don’t understand something. Our Lady’s apparitions on earth, are a tremendous gift! Pope St. John Paul II believed Our Lady saved him from death, during the assassination attempt.
As a young man, Pope St. John Paul II made the famous 33-Day Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a devotion of St. Louis de Montfort. The famous “Totus Tuus” of the Consecration became the holy motto of his Papacy.
So the Ethiopian official did not need Philip?
The American Jewish Committee, based in NYC, has announced that it is donating $25,000 through the Archdiocese of New York, to help rebuild Holy Family Church in Gaza, mistakenly hit on July 17th by an Israeli strike. Three elderly people were killed, and 15 people were wounded, including the Pastor, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli. The Archdiocese of New York and the American Jewish Committee are part of an interreligious group that has been helping the poor war victims.
They shouldn’t have murdered Jews and taken hostages if they didn’t want their city to burn and be reduced to rubble. The Gazans deserve what they are getting. They still haven’t released all the hostages. I want Israel to take over Gaza and displace all those terrorists.
There are also SoulCore rosary and yoga combo prayer groups. My parish has one. Pray and do yoga at the same time.
Mary has not been formally taught nor defined by the magisterium to be mediatrix. Please stop it. This is why the TLM is dangerous. Trads don’t think and they don’t know.
Pope St. John Paul II taught that Our Blessed Mother, Mary, had her special role in Co-Redemption, with Christ, beginning with her “Fiat” to the Lord, and her love, faith and willingness to bear God’s Divine Son in a miraculous manner, by the Holy Spirit. She continues to shower us on earth with millions of beautiful graces from Jesus, her Son. Pope St. John Paul II added the Luminous Mysteries to the Rosary.
Please read Pope St. John Paul II’s 1987 encyclical, “Redemptoris Mater.” He explains how Mary is our.
Co-Redemptrix, cooperating in Christ’s plan for the Redemption of mankind. Her role in our Salvation is very important.
I agree. I believe those claims about Mary are in the realm of theological opinion. Part of the problem is that what is meant by “mediatrix” and “co-redemptrix” hasn’t been adequately clarified. Mary devotees like to throw those terms around, but they haven’t been sufficiently defined.
I know some rosary fanatics who took it upon themselves to start adding “mediatrix of all graces” to the Hail Mary when they prayed the rosary aloud in church after Mass: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Mediatrix of all graces, pray for us sinners….” I told on them to Father, and he made them stop it.
It is important to say the Rosary correctly in a church. Some Cstholics do not like the Luminous Mysteries added to the Rosary by Pope St. John Paul II– because they were not a part of Our Blessed Mother’s original instructions. It is important for us to revere Our Blessed Mother, the holy Mother of Our Lord. She has many beautiful graces from her Divine Son — and many miracles, too!– to offer to us.
All Co-redemptrix means it is that she was the chief co-operator with Christ and the Holy Trinity in our salvation when she gave her fiat to God to bear the Christ Child, the second person of the Holy Trinity. That was the way it was explained to me, and I believe it.
Very amused by these photos! Did Pope Francis ever see them? Here is our dear Pope Leo XIV… in a fiddleback chasuble!! Did he just say the Tridentine Latin Mass?? I bet his friends just loved it! Or maybe his traditional vestments in the photos were for a different reason… who knows?? Love his Latin, anyway! :)
https://images.app.goo.gl/4DHBYQdeSDRcT6Af6
Not sure if Pope Leo has ever said the old Latin Tridentine Mass– however, I think that the fiddleback chasuble is still used at the Vatican for special Masses. There are beautiful photos of Pope Benedict XVI wearing fiddleback chasubles, too. Unlike plain Americans– the Italians are a very artistic culture that understands, appreciates and loves God’s beauty in sacred arts.
On Friday, August 15, we will have the great Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a Holy Day of Obligation. Many churches and shrines have been holding Novenas for this important and beloved Feast Day. I, myself, am extremely grateful for many beautiful graces already received, during our Novena.
The famous “33 Day Consecration” of St. Louis de Montfort is excellent. Pope St. John Paul II completed it when young, and later dedicated his Papacy in the famous Marian motto, “Totus Tuus.” He advocated strongly, “Ad Jesum per Mariam.” Mother Angelica also made her “33 Day Consecration” when young. You can buy the book, and also, nowadays, find good online resources.
The beautiful Shrine of Our Lady of Peace in Santa Clara used to offer group classes in making the excellent “33 Day Consecration.” Not sure if they still do that. St. Louis de Montfort also wrote other beautiful books about Our Lady– “True Devotion to Mary,” “The Secret of the Rosary”– plus, much more!– are all excellent. Oh– I just looked, and found out that Amazon carries all of these books, at very reasonable prices. Great!
Besides devotion to Our Blessed Mother, there are many other excellent Catholic religious devotions. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,” “The Chaplet of Divine Mercy,” etc. I have heard many priests talk about the great importance of establishing a regular daily prayer life– and keeping it, seeking always to deepen your relationship with Christ, lifelong.
When very young, I greatly admired Ven. Fulton J.
Sheen. I found out that at his ordination to the priesthood, he made a promise to God– which he kept faithfully– to make a daily Holy Hour every single day, for the rest of his life. A most wonderful devotion! Soon-to-be- Saint Carlo Acutis attended daily Mass, made daily Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, and said his Rosary nightly, at bedtime.
It is very wonderful to read the lives of the Saints, and to learn about how they grew in virtue and holiness. It is also wonderful to be blessed with true, living or recently-deceased Saints, right in our own lifetime! Saints of today’s world, like Carlo Acutis, and Pier Giorgio Frassati — whose incorrupt body was recently presented as part of the Vatican’s Junilee of Youth– are deeply inspiring.
Be careful about designating living saints. Nobody is a living saint.
Reply to nobody: Mother Teresa was considered a living saint. In life she was called the Saint of the Gutters.
You misunderstand. We are blessed to have many wonderful Catholic role models, of great virtue and holiness, to inspire us, right in our own lifetime! Pope St. John Paul II, Saint Mother Teresa of Kolkata, St. Josemaria Escriva, St. Abp. Oscar Romero, Bl. Stanley Rother, Ven. Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, Ven. Fr. Patrick Peyton, Bl. Carlo Acutis, Bl. Pier Giirgio Frassati, St. Padre Pio, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. Gianna Beretta Molla, Bl. Solanus Casey, and many more!
Reply to Psalms are better: You are dead wrong. The Rosary given by Mother Mary to Saint Dominic is one of our greatest arsenals given to us from Heaven to fight the Devil and his Demons. I highly recommend reciting all 20 decades of the Rosary every day. Our heavenly mother won’t let you down.
To quote Stevie Wonder, “Very superstitious….”
The rosary bores me out of my mind.