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For decades, Republicans have worked to “defund” Planned Parenthood, whose clinics provide a range of reproductive health services, including—most offensively to its detractors—abortion care. In July, the GOP majority in Congress largely accomplished that goal, at least temporarily, thanks to a provision tucked into the administration’s massive legislation extending tax breaks primarily for upper-income Americans and slashing government spending, that functionally barred federal funding for large abortion providers for one year.