The International Planned Parenthood Federation is shedding jobs left and right due to President Donald Trump’s prohibitions on subsidizing the abortion industry.

The group said “the Trump Administration’s funding cuts have forced 34 of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Member Associations (MAs) to terminate staff, representing 969 jobs across [member associations] globally.”

Soon after taking office, President Donald Trump reinstated the “Mexico City Policy,” which forbids federal funding of foreign abortion nonprofits.

Critics, such as the Center for Reproductive Rights, call this a “global gag rule” because it prohibits taxpayer funding of groups that kill babies.

IPFF blamed “conservative ideologies” for the programming cuts.

“The impacts go far beyond dollar figures; they represent the collapse of health infrastructure that communities have relied on for decades, and a radical shift towards conservative ideologies that deliberately block human rights,” the report, released in mid-December, stated.

The director-general of the Planned Parenthood organization also blamed “radical macho-political agendas” for the job losses.

“These funding cuts have clear and immediate consequences,” Alvaro Bermejo claimed. “They mean women giving birth without skilled care, people living with HIV unable to access testing and treatment to stay alive, and survivors of violence being turned away from the only clinic in their area.”

But the truth is, President Trump is not to blame when these groups lose money for services that most people might support, such as HIV prevention and other basic medical care. The blame lies with groups such as Planned Parenthood that are so intent on killing preborn babies that they would rather forfeit taxpayer dollars than stop abortions.

As the IPFF states: “Abortion care and advocacy are not optional—they are at the core of what we do.”

The organization “believes reproductive health is a right and everyone should be able to make choices about their well-being” and “will not support policies which actively restrict or violate an individual’s right to choose.”

Pro-life and pro-abortion groups agree that ensuring women have high-quality care during pregnancy and delivery is a worthy goal, as is preventing and treating HIV. But Planned Parenthood would rather kill babies than help women and families in need. The effects of the defunding are the fault of the group, not the president.