&quot;Defunding Planned Parenthood would cut aid from millions of young women.&quot;<p>No, the &quot;defunding Planned Parenthood&quot; amendment would have simply removed their status as a preferred (and overpaid) provider of abortion services.  Overall funding of family planning (<i>including abortion</i>) would not have been reduced, and Planned Parenthood could have still competed for such patients on level ground with all other providers.<p>I am pro-choice.  Why do our opinions differ?  Because <i>I actually bothered to read the legislation.</i>  It&#x27;s right there, freely accessible, on congress.gov.<p>There is a larger lesson here: major media agencies (including the big names like the New York Times, AP, Washington Post, etc.) generally <i>never read legislation at all.</i>  A given reporter simply prints what a preferred legislator&#x27;s staffer tells him&#x2F;her to print.  A great example of this was when pretty much all of the major media outlets claimed that &quot;Republicans voted down a provision the (Feinstein Amendment) to deny gun sales to those on the terror watchlist&quot;, which was an outright lie.  That amendment would have instead wiped out the ObamaCare repeal language.