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Judge Expands Injunction Protecting Medicaid Funding for All Planned Parenthood Clinics

The Boston court found the defunding measure likely violates constitutional rights, with HHS appealing to the First Circuit for a stay.

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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Overview

  • U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani broadened her July 21 order on July 28 to restore Medicaid reimbursements to every Planned Parenthood affiliate nationwide while litigation continues.
  • Talwani concluded that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s one-year ban on providers receiving over $800,000 in Medicaid funds likely amounts to an unconstitutional bill of attainder and infringes equal protection and association rights.
  • Her earlier injunction had applied only to clinics not providing abortions or below the funding threshold, leaving affiliates in 24 states vulnerable to $300 million in cuts, notably in California.
  • The Department of Health and Human Services disputed the ruling as forcing states to subsidize advocacy over care and filed an emergency appeal seeking to reinstate the defunding provision.
  • Planned Parenthood leaders said the nationwide block safeguards access to contraception, cancer screenings, STI testing and other non-abortion services for over a million low-income patients.