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Planned Parenthood of Illinois eyes $16M gap if Medicaid cuts proceed: “Closures are not off the table”

Thursday, Jul 10, 2025 - Posted by Isabel Miller

* Subscribers got a rundown yesterday. The New York Times last week

When Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to pass President Trump’s spending bill, abortion opponents came one step closer to stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding — a move that could jeopardize abortion access for patients even in states where abortion is legal.

The bill imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to any health care nonprofit that offers abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023. The restriction jeopardizes Planned Parenthood’s ability to keep operating in some states. […]

“This bill threatens to close nearly 200 Planned Parenthood health centers and will create devastating gaps in our health care infrastructure,” Alexis McGill Johnson, the chief executive of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the national umbrella organization, said in a statement.

The bill most deeply affects Planned Parenthood clinics in blue states, including California, Oregon, Washington and Illinois, where abortion is still legal and where there are also large numbers of patients who are eligible for Medicaid reimbursements for other health care.

Planned Parenthood won a temporary injunction on Monday. Click here for Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s filing. Click here for the TRO.

* WTTW yesterday

Nearly 30,000, or more than 40%, of Planned Parenthood of Illinois patients use Medicaid to access health care services at Planned Parenthood’s health centers, according to the organization. Without Medicaid, leaders at the organization said it would need $16 million annually to continue providing services at its current level.

“Losing significant funding, always, is a concern,” [Illinois Vice President of Patient Services Emily Glover] said. “Anytime that level of funding is in jeopardy, additional health center closures are not off the table. It is always a possibility. It is a last-resort option; it’s something we don’t wanna have to do.” […]

Planned Parenthood of Illinois pledged last week to keep providing reproductive care to Medicaid patients in the immediate future despite potential funding cuts.

“What is going through my mind right now is how do we continue letting patients know that we’re here to care for them?” Glover said. “How do we continue to care for our staff who, quite frankly, are asked to respond to ever-changing political cycles and pressures and a very confusing health care landscape at the moment, while caring for patients who potentially can’t get care anywhere else?”

The organization is creating contingency plans and working with elected officials and partner organizations on how it can keep providing care for Medicaid patients, according to Glover.

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7 Comments »
  1. - City Zen - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 10:56 am:

    ==Planned Parenthood won a temporary injunction==

    Democarcy dies something something.


  2. - Steve - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 11:47 am:

    -This bill threatens to close nearly 200 Planned Parenthood health centers-

    PP may win on appeal : the new legal logic will be that PP has an implied right to federal government money and Congress doesn’t control spending or something.


  3. - Norseman - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 11:55 am:

    PP will not win with in the MAGA SCOTUS. These justices will contort themselves into a pretzel to implement their anti-abortion religious beliefs.


  4. - Thomas Paine - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 12:14 pm:

    === to implement their anti-abortion religious beliefs. ===

    If the federal government can withhold Medicaid from an organization because it provides abortions, then the federal government can withhold Medicaid funding from an organization because it refuses to provide abortions.

    And so can the state of Illinois.

    Be careful what powers you wish for government to have when the joystick is in your hands, because it will one day be in someone else’s hands.


  5. - Unionman - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 1:18 pm:

    Sounds like PP has a new fundraising campaign to work on.


  6. - Norseman - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 1:54 pm:

    === because it refuses to provide abortions. ===

    It doesn’t work that way. MAGA SCOTUS has the last say.


  7. - Juice - Thursday, Jul 10, 25 @ 2:19 pm:

    @Thomas Paine, the Hyde Amendment actually has language that prohibits states from discriminating against providers that do not provide abortions (at least with federal funds).

    Doesn’t mean there might be other buckets of cash that could apply. But just an FYI.


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