Dive Brief:
- Planned Parenthood clinics are consolidating or closing their doors because of Trump administration restrictions on funding for Medicaid and the Title X family planning program, according to an analysis published Monday by KFF.
- Since January 2025, 57 clinics across 20 states have either shut down or combined with another care site, the health policy research group found.
- Only 247 Planned Parenthood clinics across 29 states now participate in the Title X program, which provides free or low-cost family planning services to low-income patients. Last year, nearly 300 clinics in 34 states and Washington, D.C. were Title X grantees.
Dive Insight:
Republican lawmakers have long sought to limit public funds to Planned Parenthood, which offers reproductive and sexual healthcare as well as abortion services. Under the Trump administration, several federal and judicial policies have cut off major streams of funding to Planned Parenthood clinics, according to KFF.
For example, President Donald Trump signed massive tax and policy legislation into law last year that included a one-year ban on federal Medicaid dollars for services offered by abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
In the months since the law took effect, more than 20 health centers had to close, “and tens of thousands of people now have few, if any, options to get the lifesaving care they need,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said in a statement.
Additionally, the Trump administration withheld tens of millions of dollars of Title X family planning grants from Planned Parenthood clinics for months last year. And though some states have moved to use their own money to fund Planned Parenthood clinics, the Supreme Court ruled last year that states can block Medicaid funding for abortion providers.
The funding restrictions could have significant implications for patients, given Planned Parenthood’s role as a major reproductive healthcare provider, KFF said.
In 2023, 1 in 10 women of reproductive age who were covered by Medicaid and received family planning services did so at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
More than 80% of these Medicaid beneficiaries received contraceptive care, and nearly 60% got sexually transmitted infection services. More than half received gynecological care, like Pap smears and pregnancy tests.
Government funding challenges for Planned Parenthood could linger, according to KFF. The one-year federal Medicaid funding ban is set to lapse in July, though some lawmakers have called to extend the prohibition.
Even if the federal funding moratorium expires, some states could decide to exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, KFF said.
The abortion access landscape has also changed significantly since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Thirteen states have banned the procedure, while 10 states have restricted abortion earlier than fetal viability, the standard set by Roe.
