In this issue:
- Planned Parenthood lost millions in federal funding last year, but the Trump administration just quietly restored its family planning funds.
- Updates about recent Planned Parenthood facility closures points awareness to the fact that its virtual centers are only increasing.
Trump Administration Restores Millions in Funding to Planned Parenthood
By Katie Brown Xavios
This week, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it has dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration after the Department of Health and Human Services quietly restored tens of millions in Title X family planning funds to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.
Starting in March 2025, the Title X funding was temporarily withheld from more than a dozen providers, including nine Planned Parenthood state affiliates, due to violations stemming from a Trump executive order. The freeze impacted grants worth around $65.8 million.
Some funding was restored over the summer, but several affiliates (in states like the Carolinas, Dakotas, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, and others) remained under investigation until December 2025. At that point, HHS official Amy Margolis informed the grantees that they not only would have funding restored but would receive back pay all the way to April 2025.
The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (represented by the ACLU) voluntarily dismissed the case in a court filing, as all withheld Title X grants were now released.
This decision does not affect Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid reimbursements, which were taken away in the summer of 2025 and are expected to be restored in full in summer of 2026.
This decision is a disappointing trend for the Trump administration, which has proven time and time again that the babies are not the priority and are used as a political bargaining chip. Most recently, Trump urged fellow Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which keeps federal funds from being used for abortions.
We must continue to pray for the president and his administration. Our nation needs lawmakers who will stand between our most vulnerable and the evil entities, like Planned Parenthood, that seek to destroy them.
Planned Parenthood Facilities Update for the New Year
By Katherine Van Dyke
As the official Planned Parenthood watchdog, STOPP closely monitors the abortion giant’s facility openings and closures of both its virtual and brick-and-mortar businesses throughout the country. STOPP has recently discovered new updates regarding Planned Parenthood’s facility openings and closures. Thus far in 2026, one facility has temporarily closed, one facility has shut its door for good, and one facility has reopened after two months of temporary closure.
A recent announcement on Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania’s website lists the following “temporary updates” to some of its facility’s operations: “Beginning December 2, 2025, our Bridgeville health center will temporarily pause in-person services. Beginning January 16, 2026, our Greensburg health center will temporarily pause in-person services.” (emphasis added)
This facility provides birth control, contraceptives, and gender hormone drugs. Although the initial announcement stated that the Pittsburgh Family Planning health center would be temporarily closed rather than the Greensburg facility, it was updated this week to say that Pittsburgh Family Planning would see a “reduction” of services and Greensburg would temporarily close instead. This facility also provides birth control pills, contraception, and gender hormone drugs.
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers announced at the end of 2025 that it would permanently close its Rolla, Missouri, facility on January 1, 2026. According to KOMU news, PPGR stated that “reduced funding, legal restrictions and ongoing provider shortages as contributing factors” to the closure. While the facility is shutting its doors, PPGR announced that it would transfer all of its “services” (birth control, contraceptives, and gender hormone drugs) to “telehealth.”
Lastly, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi announced that its facility in Memphis near Summer and I240 would reopen on January 2, 2026, after two months of temporary closure. This facility distributes birth control, contraceptives, and gender hormone drugs.
We must also remember the reality of Planned Parenthood’s virtual centers and telehealth taking place of these facilities, as they still profit off abortion, birth control, and gender hormone drugs. According to our current research, Planned Parenthood has increased its “virtual health centers” from 43 in May 2025 to 49 virtual centers at the end of 2025. Twenty-five of these centers distribute deadly abortion pills, and 47 of them provide contraception.
Until we see more efforts to fully defund Planned Parenthood and pass legislation that bans all abortion (which stems from true conversion of hearts and minds in how one views the dignity of the human person at all stages), it is likely that these virtual centers will continue to expand across the country.
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