Planned Parenthood Regains Its Funding after One Year of Medicaid Cuts
By Katherine Van Dyke
In an unfortunate decision by the federal government, Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations regained their government Medicaid reimbursement funding on July 5. This ended the one-year withholding of government funds to Planned Parenthood, handing back taxpayer money to again fuel the abortion organization with around $800 million or more.
As STOPP reported this time last year, the Trump administration’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” prohibited Medicaid reimbursements to abortion providers for one year but included exceptions from defunding for affiliates and facilities that performed abortion in the instances of rape, incest, and a mother’s mental or physical health (Sec. 71113 1. iii). Additionally, the bill was supposed to defund Planned Parenthood for 10 years, but without explanation from the Senate the time frame was reduced to one year. This “defunding” was hardly a victory, but it was an initiative in the right direction.
For example, this past year of defunding did force Planned Parenthood to make decisions about closing facilities, consolidating affiliates, and limiting its “services,” which proved a positive for those of us fighting against Planned Parenthood. In fact, STOPP tracked that 58 of its facilities closed in calendar year 2025 and the first half of 2026.
Despite the defunding, Planned Parenthood assured the public that it would continue its largest and most diabolical money making “service”—killing preborn babies through abortion. Throughout this period, Planned Parenthood affiliates expanded telehealth abortions when facilities closed, promoted its patient navigator program that helps women travel out of state for abortions, encouraged women to stockpile abortion pills through its “Just in Case” program, and even promoted misoprostol-only abortions.
This abortion mindset of Planned Parenthood shows that it deserves none of our taxpayer dollars. To allow it to receive any funding, especially funding that is technically not supposed to go toward abortion, is truly outrageous.
STOPP will use this example of weakness from our government officials as motivation to continue the fight against the forces of evil like Planned Parenthood. This is far from the end.
What Did This Eye-Opening Planned Parenthood Report Reveal?
By Katie Xavios
In an attempt to draw both sympathy and tax dollars, Planned Parenthood released a special report highlighting all the ways the federal defunding hurt its facilities over the last year. Yet the report, Less Care and More Barriers: One Year of “Defunding” Planned Parenthood, actually makes a decent case for why it’s a good thing to defund the organization, as it shows that Planned Parenthood only cares about increasing and expanding abortion.
Here are some of the highlights:
- The report states that 30 abortion facilities closed, affecting patients who previously received care there.These closures affected 41,000 birth control patients and approximately 10,400 abortion patients annually (based on 2024 data).
- Planned Parenthood’s heavy reliance on taxpayer funding was exposed. The one-year restriction resulted in 14 states committing to cover $400 million in emergency state funding to make up for the federal Medicaid reimbursements PP was no longer receiving. Planned Parenthood itself absorbed tens of millions in uncompensated costs and sued aggressively to restore access.
- Planned Parenthood’s focus on abortion was made extremely clear. The abortion giant claims non-abortion services suffered under the defunding, but at the same time, it shifted focus to amplify abortion. We know this because abortion numbers have risen while numbers for non-abortion services have dropped. Planned Parenthood has streamlined—and kept—abortion as its bread and butter.
- Telehealth abortions became the new focus. In an effort to expand and increase abortions, Planned Parenthood turned to telehealth. This allowed the organization to send abortion pills to anyone in any location, regardless of what that state’s abortion law might be. PP relies on shield laws that protect it from the consequences of sending these pills into states where it is illegal to do so.
Planned Parenthood is an adaptive creature. It figured out how to survive without the federal tax money for the last year and how to increase its virtual footprint. Now that PP seemingly has full funding again, we know that some of the closures and reductions of service we saw last year might be undone.
While we place our trust in God’s hands, we must never stop fighting. Pray not only for our lawmakers to fully defund Planned Parenthood and to do so for good, but pray also for an end to abortion in our nation.
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