Planned Parenthood, Trump
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The nonprofit is challenging a new law that bars its clinics from receiving federal money for any treatment, including birth control and checkups.
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.
Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in Republican President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill that would prevent its health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
The restraining order prevents the Trump administration from enacting a provision of the massive tax and policy law that would cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood encompasses nearly 600 locations nationwide. In addition to abortion, the clinics provide reproductive care such as pregnancy tests, testing for sexually transmitted infections ...
The Utah chapter of Planned Parenthood is suing over a provision in the "Big Beautiful Bill" preventing nonprofits that provide elective abortions from being reimbursed for providing reproductive care to Medicaid patients.
Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called the measure a “big bad betrayal of a bill” in a Tuesday news call, and said the funding cuts in the bill “would make it harder, if not impossible, for everyone, everywhere to get an abortion.”