Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday in response to funding cuts included in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which threaten to shutter hundreds of its clinics.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed the GOP’s massive tax and spending bill, which includes language blocking Medicaid funding for abortion providers for one year. Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for the provision, which it alleges unconstitutionally “targets” the organization.
“If this ‘defund’ is allowed to stand, it would have devastating consequences for the more than 1 million patients who use Medicaid as their insurance at Planned Parenthood health centers across the country to get birth control, cancer screenings, and more,” Planned Parenthood said. “If this unconstitutional law is not stopped, the consequences will be nothing short of a public health crisis.”
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The new Medicaid provision is expected to have a significant impact on the nation’s largest provider of abortion services, which receives $700 million — or 39% — of its revenue from government reimbursements and grants, according to its latest annual report. Meanwhile, private contributions totaled $684.1 million in fiscal year 2023-2024, a 31% drop compared to the previous year.
More than 20 Planned Parenthood clinics have reportedly closed since Trump took office in January. The organization previously announced that it would be forced to close nearly 200 of its clinics across 24 states if the Republicans’ reconciliation bill were signed into law.
“This lawsuit shows exactly what Planned Parenthood feared: once the taxpayer cash flow ends, so does their business model,” Shawn Carney, President of 40 Days for Life, said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If abortion were truly essential health care, they’d be thriving post-Dobbs — not closing clinics in pro-abortion states like Ohio. This isn’t about health care. It’s about losing market share.”
Planned Parenthood performed over 400,000 abortions in fiscal year 2023-24. Pro-life advocates say that cutting its federal funding will not jeopardize women’s healthcare access as the abortion provider claims.
“Many times they’ve been offered a path to keep their funding by dropping abortions, but they refuse. Meanwhile, they have no monopoly on health, as women already go to community health centers that provide much more comprehensive care and are more accessible, outnumbering Planned Parenthoods 15:1 nationwide,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told the DCNF on Tuesday, following the reconciliation bill’s passage.
Neither Planned Parenthood nor HHS responded to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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