Overview
- Under the new law signed July 4, any clinic offering elective abortions is barred from Medicaid funding for all services for one year.
- Planned Parenthood filed lawsuits on July 7 challenging the provision as an unconstitutional attack on reproductive and preventive care.
- Approximately 200 clinics could lose Medicaid reimbursements, threatening access to contraception, cancer screenings and STI testing for low-income patients.
- Senate budget reconciliation rules and a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian limited the defunding measure to a one-year sunset.
- Anti-abortion advocates praise the law as the most significant federal funding restriction on abortion providers since the 1976 Hyde Amendment.