President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget legislation has triggered panic among pro-abortion advocates.
Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” officially became law last week, delivering on a key conservative demand by cutting off taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood through Medicaid for the next year.
The provision, passed via budget reconciliation, marks a major win for the pro-life movement, which has long sought to stop taxpayer dollars from propping up abortion providers.
The legislation halts Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood’s nearly 600 clinics nationwide for one year.
The decision could force hundreds of facilities to shut their doors.
Planned Parenthood received $792.2 million in taxpayer funding in 2023–2024 alone, according to the group’s latest annual report, and the organization now says nearly 200 clinics in 24 states could be at risk of closure.
“The reconciliation bill is a targeted attack on Planned Parenthood health centers and patients that cannot stand,” claimed Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson.
“Everyone deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care.
“That’s what we’ve been fighting for the last century — and we’ll never stop.
“We’ll be suing the Trump administration to stop this unlawful attack. See you in court.”
Planned Parenthood says the closures would disproportionately affect states where abortion is still legal, with 90 percent of the clinics at risk operating in such states.
The group also warned that over 1 million women could lose access to non-abortion services like cancer screenings and STI testing, though those services have been steadily declining in recent years, according to the group’s own data.
The organization’s struggles aren’t new.
At least 20 clinics have already closed since the beginning of 2025, according to reporting by The Guardian.
A June article cited more than a dozen shutdowns across six states: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Utah, and Vermont.
The Trump administration froze Title X funds to nine state Planned Parenthood affiliates in March, citing possible violations of federal civil rights laws and executive orders signed by the president.
The funding crisis has exposed deeper questions about the group’s financial stewardship.
The Guardian argues that Planned Parenthood, despite its dominance in public discourse, performs only a fraction of the nation’s abortions, while “independent” abortion clinics face greater financial turmoil.
“As of June 2023, the Planned Parenthood network had about $3bn in assets,” the outlet reported.
Still, Planned Parenthood remains the public face of abortion access in America and has used that position to wage ongoing legal warfare.
According to its 2024 annual report, the group is currently engaged in about 30 open lawsuits, including challenges to abortion bans, Medicaid restrictions, and requirements for ultrasounds and waiting periods.
The same report, titled “A Force For Hope,” reveals that 402,230 abortions were committed by Planned Parenthood in 2023, up from 392,715 the previous year.
Meanwhile, taxpayer funding surged by nearly $100 million, from $694 million in 2022 to $792.2 million in 2023.
Planned Parenthood is also the second-largest provider of so-called “gender-affirming care” in the country, according to the Senate HELP Committee.
In 2022, 41 of its 49 affiliates offered services including puberty blockers for minors and cross-sex hormone treatments.
The decision to defund Planned Parenthood via reconciliation mirrors prior attempts in 2015 and 2017.
The tactic allowed Republicans to bypass the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate and pass the measure with a simple majority, a key benefit of holding the White House and both chambers of Congress.
While the original legislation sought to defund the abortion giant for a full ten years, negotiations trimmed that back to one year in the final version.
Still, pro-life advocates are treating the outcome as a major victory and promising more action ahead.
Importantly, the new federal provision follows a Supreme Court ruling that allowed individual states to bar Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood.
The new federal law expands that precedent nationwide for the duration of the one-year provision.
While the Hyde Amendment already bans direct federal funding of abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother, Republicans have long argued that giving Medicaid reimbursements to abortion providers effectively subsidizes the industry.
Planned Parenthood is now preparing a legal challenge.
But the Trump administration has asserted that no more taxpayer funds will go to America’s largest abortion provider.
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