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Trump Signs Bill Cutting Medicaid Funding for Abortion-Providing Clinics

Planned Parenthood has sued to block the funding ban, warning it could shutter roughly 200 clinics that serve low-income patients.

Activists opposing funding for Planned Parenthood demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on April 2.
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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.