As Republican lawmakers eagerly prepare to scrap President Obama’s signature healthcare legislation, the Affordable Care Act, they’ve announced that while doing so, they'll also strip funding from Planned Parenthood.

In a press conference Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) confirmed that “Planned Parenthood legislation would be in our reconciliation bill” when asked about potential defunding. The reconciliation bill is the budgetary tool that Republicans plan to use to dismantle the ACA with a simple majority and without the potential for a filibuster. A straight repeal would require a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate, which the Republicans don’t have. A straight repeal would also open the possibility of a filibuster. (For more on how that process would work, check out Ars’ previous coverage on this matter.)

Republicans have long railed against Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. A 2015 reconciliation bill, put forth by Tom Price (R-Ga.), President-elect Trump’s nominee for the secretary of health and human services, also defunded Planned Parenthood. That legislation made it through the House and Senate, but it was vetoed by President Obama.

Since 1976, federal law prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortion. However, abortion providers can still receive federal funding to provide other healthcare services.

In 2014 (the most recent data available), Planned Parenthood received around $553 million in federal funding, which makes up about 43 percent of its overall funding. The organization runs more than 650 health centers around the country, serving around 2.5 million patients a year.

Despite abortion services drawing the most attention, abortions make up only about three percent of Planned Parenthood’s work. Of the nearly 9.5 million services Planned Parenthood provided in 2014, 4.2 million (45 percent) of those services were related to testing and treating sexually transmitted infections. Thirty-one percent, or 2.9 million services, were for birth control. The rest were largely for pregnancy testing, cancer screening, and other health services such as urinary tract infections and adoption referrals.

“Defunding Planned Parenthood is dangerous to people’s health, it's unpopular, and it would leave people across the country without care,” president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Cecile Richards, said in a statement responding to Ryan's comments.

The combination of defunding Planned Parenthood and repealing ACA is a double-whammy for women, particularly those of low income. With an ACA repeal, 55 million women would lose access to no-copay preventive services, such as STI screening, pap tests, and cancer screening, according to Planned Parenthood.

Republican leaders are expected to introduce and pass the ACA-dismantling, Planned Parenthood-defunding bill as soon as next month. However, the lawmakers have yet to come up with a replacement for the legislation, which could leave the healthcare industry in years-long limbo and/or cause millions of Americans to lose health insurance coverage.