Planned Parenthood at Risk of Losing Millions in Federal Funding

The New York Times ^ | July 2, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Katie BennerDavid A. Fahrenthold and Margot Sanger-Katz

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The nation’s largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.

Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to pass President Trump’s spending bill, bringing abortion opponents one step closer to stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding — a move that could jeopardize abortion access for patients even in states where abortion is legal.

The bill imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to any health care nonprofit that offers abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023. The restriction jeopardizes Planned Parenthood’s ability to keep operating in some states.

While federal law already prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from paying for abortions, the bill would affect the stream of federal money that covers other services, and thus helps keep clinics open. Though not all individual Planned Parenthood locations provide abortions, the legislative language could knock them out of Medicaid if they are part of a regional network that does offer the procedures.

Planned Parenthood affiliates — each an independently run nonprofit that operates clinics across a geographic region — are in the unusual position of being both an abortion provider and an operator of clinics. The facilities provide a wide range of other medical services for more than two million Americans who cannot afford health care anywhere else.

“This bill threatens to close nearly 200 Planned Parenthood health centers and will create devastating gaps in our health care infrastructure,” Alexis McGill Johnson, the chief executive of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the national umbrella organization, said in a statement.

The bill most deeply affects Planned Parenthood clinics in blue states, including California, Oregon, Washington and Illinois, where abortion is still legal and where there are also large numbers of patients who are eligible...

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[ViLaLuz]

Defund PP forever and ever.

[lightman]

PP will more than make up for it by sending out hysterical begging letter and blitzing texts and emails.

[Texas Eagle]

Margot Sanger-Katz????

Really?

[Skooz]

Good.

[Vaquero]

Boo hoo

[Texas Eagle]

Does PP provide vasectomies and tubal ligations? I’m guessing they don’t. That would reduce the number of return customers.

[Mouton]

Yeah, I saw that too: Sanger. Defunding is fine, how about recovery of misspent money. Put them out of business and bankrupt them. Give the enemy no quarter.

[Ex-Con777]

Whatever happened to the Hyde Amendment prohibiting federal funds for abortion? Trump issued an EO affirming it. Congress is supposed to vote on it every year.

EC

[bobbo666]

And, just imagine how many black babies will not be murdered in accordance with PP charter.

[webheart]

They should not be “at risk”. They should not have any Federal funding. If they are accredited to provide health care services then they should only be reimbursed for legitimate services.

[Tell It Right]

If I understand it correctly, PP officially gets non-abortion funding for non-abortion services, with everyone knowing that the money winds up helping them do abortions. This law may be the Republicans trying to work the wording to close those loopholes.

[Magnum44]

I voted for this

[fella]

DemonRat and RINO campaign financing to be hardest hit.

[Iron Munro]

Why only “at risk”?

They should not be receiving on penny of taxpayer money.