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Federal Judge Blocks Nationwide Medicaid Defunding of Planned Parenthood

The nationwide injunction halts a one-year Medicaid cut under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, coming after HHS filed an appeal.

FILE - A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Pro-planned parenthood and pro-abortion activists demonstrate after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for South Carolina to strip Planned Parenthood of funding under the Medicaid health insurance program in a ruling that bolsters efforts by Republican-led states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of public money, outside the court in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 26, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 16: Clinic escort volunteers stand outside of the Planned Parenthood in the Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan on April 16, 2021 in New York City. The Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services has begun the process of undoing a Trump administration policy, known as Title X, that stripped federal family-planning dollars from clinics that refer patients for abortions, a move that drove Planned Parenthood to withdraw from the program.

Overview

  • On July 28, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani expanded a partial injunction to bar enforcement of the defunding provision for all Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide.
  • The blocked provision would have banned Medicaid reimbursements for one year to providers receiving more than $800,000 in Medicaid funds in 2023 and offering abortions.
  • Talwani ruled the measure likely amounts to an unconstitutional bill of attainder that punishes Planned Parenthood without judicial trial and warned it threatens patients’ access to contraception, STI testing, and cancer screenings.
  • Planned Parenthood has said the funding loss could jeopardize nearly 200 clinics and disrupt care for over 1 million Medicaid patients.
  • The Department of Health and Human Services has appealed the order, arguing states should not be required to fund organizations engaged in political advocacy.