# 119-s-177: Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act

119-s-177, Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-22).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-177
- Congress: 119
- Title: Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-22
- Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA)
- Cosponsors: 19
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-22

## Summary

**Bars federal funding for Planned Parenthood and its affiliates.** It would require that funds no longer available to Planned Parenthood be made available to other eligible providers to deliver women's health services. - Women and families: Says services like contraception, prenatal and postpartum care, well-child visits, immunizations, sexually transmitted disease testing, and cervical and breast cancer screenings would continue to be provided by state and county health departments, community health centers, hospitals, physicians' offices, and other entities. - Other providers and federal funding: Directs dollars away from Planned Parenthood to other eligible entities, and states this change would not reduce overall federal funding for women's health or alter existing appropriations limits related to abortion.

## Cosponsors (19)

- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (R-IA), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] (R-OK), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (R-MT), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] (R-MS), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE] (R-NE), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] (R-SD), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] (R-ND), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] (R-TN), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] (R-NC), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] (R-MO), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] (R-WY), 2025-03-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (R-TX), 2025-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] (R-WY), 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] (R-NC), 2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Protect federal women's health funding: benefit, medium. This bill would say nothing in it may change abortion funding limits in other spending laws. It would also say the Act must not reduce total Federal funding for women's health. If enacted, this would aim to keep current federal support and program access for people who use federally supported women…
- Ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood: cost, medium. This bill would bar any Federal funds from going to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The ban would apply to its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, and clinics. If enacted, federally supported services at those clinics could shrink. You might have less access or pay more out of pocke…

## Related bills

- 119-s-1071: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
- 119-s-2296: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
- 119-s-4784: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
- 119-s-186: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025
- 119-s-6: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
- 119-s-213: Main Street Tax Certainty Act

## Sources
- [119-s-177 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/177)

## Related
- [119-s-1071: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1071)
- [119-s-2296: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2296)
- [119-s-4784: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4784)
- [119-s-186: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-186)
- [119-s-6: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-6)
- [119-s-213: Main Street Tax Certainty Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-213)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-177 (as of 2026-07-22).