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Posted on 07/04/2026 5:31:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Planned Parenthood will regain access to federal funding on Saturday, one year after Republicans were able to cut its clinics off from Medicaid.
Last year, Republicans were successful in using the party-line One Big Beautiful Bill Act to achieve their long sought-after goal of defunding Planned Parenthood.
But the complicated Senate rules involved in passing the bill meant the ban only lasted one year instead of 10. Come July 4, Medicaid will once again cover non-abortion care at Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide.
Medicaid is prohibited from paying for almost all abortions under the longstanding Hyde Amendment, but conservatives sought to put Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide abortions out of business by withholding all federal funding from those clinics. They argued women can receive the same non-abortion care elsewhere.
While the ban did not completely devastate the organization’s finances and drive it to financial ruin like many GOP lawmakers had hoped, Planned Parenthood clinics suffered.
“Tens of thousands of patients have been denied access to services like cancer screenings and birth control and STI testing and treatment. These are things that just can’t be undone,” said Nora Walsh-DeVries, vice president of political and legislative affairs at Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
The law forced the closure of 30 clinics, according to a new report from Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
In September 2025 alone, Planned Parenthood provided healthcare services at no cost to 100,000 Medicaid patients, covering an estimated $45 million in health costs.
Keeping that up was “deeply unsustainable” and not something every affiliate could manage, Walsh-DeVries said.
Roughly 11 states used state-only money to keep Planned Parenthood and other affected providers operational for their Medicaid enrollees over the past year. But that also was not something that could be sustained over a prolonged...
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Yeah. I'm sure cancer screening makes up the bulk of patient services. Can't the women just keep their legs together to prevent those other things.
Maybe the GOP in Congre$$ has their eye$ on $ome pay bsck.
The stupid party strikes again. Defunding means defunding—not a one year moratorium.What nonsense.
Planned Parenthood: “Good. Now let us at those picanannies again!”
It’s things like this that will cause America’s downfall.
Tens of thousands of patients have been denied access to services like cancer screenings and birth control and STI testing and treatment.
That is total BS, NO ONE goes to planned Parenthood for breast screenings, they go for abortions that simple. My sister years ago(We have Kaiser) she needed a mammogram and there was no availability at the kaiser she goes to so she asked if maybe she could go to planned parenthood and get it done and her doc told her “We only send women over there for abortions” thats all its for, baby murder
The Senate truly sucks Dylan Mulvaney. First in line is John Thune the "Dakota Toe Tapper",
protégé of the "old school" tap master himself, Larry Craig.
Larry Craig says he has never been gay, and I believe him. 🤡
Our effing gop
They knew this was coming since the last bill got,rid of it
Should have made sure another bill defunded them again for longer, permanently
Jeebus our asshats dont proactively domanything because they are effing uniparty
NO! Say it’s not so. Our tax dollars that end up going into demoncRAT coffers are going to murder infants in the womb. NNNNNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!
They sure kept this on the down low. What a pathetic gesture this turned out to be. 1 year ugh it’s an insult.
I suppose I’m missing something. Something gets funded only if congress funds it. Things don’t get funded automatically unless congress votes to *not* fund it. Congress should not have to keep renewing a ban, it should be sufficient to not include it as a line item in the budget.
Like finding excuses why they can’t pass the Save Act, it sounds like they want to fund abortion and want us to believe it’s totally out of their hands.
Pity.
” it sounds like they want to fund abortion and want us to believe it’s totally out of their hands.”
Enjoy your chicken dinner.
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