Report: Planned Parenthood to close dozens of locations

A pro-life advocacy group announced on Friday that Planned Parenthood had closed or plans to close as many as 38 locations in 2025. The group, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said the closures indicate the success of pro-life measures included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Donald Trump signed into law last month.

Planned Parenthood has estimated that the changes in Trump’s policy package could lead to the closure of as many as 200 of its centers.

What’s in the Big Beautiful Bill that would lead to so many closures? Trump’s legislative package, which became law on July 4, doesn’t mention Planned Parenthood by name. Instead, it forbids any nonprofit that offers abortions from receiving Medicaid funding, even if the organization provides other services such as cancer screenings.

The Hyde Amendment of 1976 already forbids the government from directly funding abortions. That hasn’t prevented Planned Parenthood from collecting billions in government funding, ostensibly for other services. According to Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 annual report, the organization received $792.2 million in reimbursements from Medicaid.

“Money is fungible, and we know that funding covers cost-related utilities, staffing, patient intake. And it allows them to move money around so that they can provide more abortions,” Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs for SBA Pro-Life America, told me ahead of the bill’s passage.

What has Planned Parenthood done in response? For now, Planned Parenthood has launched legal efforts aimed at overturning or stalling the abortion-related portions of Trump’s legislative package.

On Monday, Indira Talwani, an Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge in Boston, granted Planned Parenthood a nationwide preliminary injunction, arguing that the government had unfairly targeted Planned Parenthood.

“This order grants preliminary relief that prevents [the Department of Health and Human Services and the Social Security Administration] from targeting a specific group of entities—Planned Parenthood Federation Members—for exclusion from reimbursements under the Medicaid program,” Talwani wrote in her 58-page order.

Pritchard, in a press release on Friday, stated that SBA Pro-Life America believes the setback won’t stop Planned Parenthood’s infrastructure from crumbling in the long run.

Dig deeper: Read my reporting on why pro-life advocates think the second Trump administration is a now-or-never moment in the fight against abortion.