[Cave...] Planned Parenthood drops lawsuit against Trump administration's Medicaid cuts

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Planned Parenthood has moved to drop its legal 
challenge against the Trump administration for cutting off Medicaid 
funding to its abortion providers across the U.S.

Since July, Planned Parenthood’s attorneys have been fighting to block 
part of President Donald Trump’s tax bill that they argued unfairly 
targeted their clinics and would leave vulnerable patients with even fewer 
health care options.

However, in December, a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump 
administration could continue to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned 
Parenthood and other health centers. Meanwhile, a separate lawsuit filed 
by a coalition of mostly Democratic states also challenging the cuts, was 
given a similar blow in January — though that legal challenge remains 
ongoing.

A third lawsuit, also over the funding cuts, filed in Maine by a network 
of medical clinics that was also impacted by the Trump tax bill, was 
voluntarily dismissed in October.

Planned Parenthood moved to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit late Friday. 
An email seeking comment from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert 
F. Kennedy Jr., who was the named plaintiff in the lawsuit, was sent 
Monday.

“The goal of this lawsuit has always been to help Planned Parenthood 
patients get the care they deserve from their trusted provider. Based on 
the 1st Circuit’s decision, it is clear that this lawsuit is no longer the 
best way to accomplish that goal,” the organization said in a statement.


Under the tax provision in Trump’s tax bill, Medicaid payments would be 
ended if providers like Planned Parenthood primarily offered family 
planning services — things like contraception, abortion and pregnancy 
tests — and received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023.

Planned Parenthood was not specifically named in the statute, but the 
organization’s leaders have said it was meant to affect their nearly 600 
centers in 48 states.

Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-
income and disabled Americans. While federal law bans taxpayer money from 
covering most abortions, many conservatives have long argued that abortion 
providers like Planned Parenthood used Medicaid money for other health 
services to subsidize abortion.

Nearly half of Planned Parenthood’s patients rely on Medicaid.

According to Planned Parenthood, 23 of their health clinics have been 
forced to close as a result of Trump’s tax bill, which went into effect on 
July 4. More than 50 clinics closed in 18 states last year, with the 
majority of those located in the Midwest.

“President Trump and his allies in Congress have weaponized the federal 
government to target Planned Parenthood at the expense of patients — 
stripping people of the care they rely on,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, 
president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a 
statement. “Through every attack, Planned Parenthood has never lost sight 
of its focus: ensuring patients can get the care they need from the 
provider they trust. That will never change.”

Conversation:

Planned Parenthood primarily focused on African American communities
Their supporters must be so upset they cant continue


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