{"id":300231,"date":"2025-07-29T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300231\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:06:16","slug":"judge-orders-trump-administration-to-continue-medicaid-funding-to-planned-parenthood-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300231\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Trump administration to continue Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood | Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration<\/a> must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the reproductive health giant and the White House over Republican efforts to \u201cdefund\u201d Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

Days after Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax bill, Planned Parenthood<\/a> sued over a provision in the bill that ended Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, such as Planned Parenthood. The new court order, from US district judge Indira Talwani in Boston, will protect Medicaid funding for all Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide while litigation in the case continues.<\/p>\n

The order also replaces and expands a previous edict handed down by Talwani, which initially granted a preliminary injunction specifically blocking the government from cutting Medicaid<\/a> payments only to Planned Parenthood affiliates that did not provide abortions or did not receive at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in a given year.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,\u201d Talwani wrote in her Monday order.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn particular, restricting members\u2019 ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 80 million people rely on Medicaid, the US government\u2019s insurance program for low-income people.<\/p>\n

It is already illegal to use Medicaid to pay for most abortions, but Planned Parenthood clinics \u2013 which treat a disproportionate number of people who use Medicaid \u2013 rely on the program to reimburse it for services such as birth control, STI tests and cancer screenings.<\/p>\n

In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood had argued<\/a> that it would be at risk of closing nearly 200 clinics in 24 states if it is cut off from Medicaid funds. These closures would probably be felt most strongly in blue states,<\/a> since they are home to larger numbers of people who use Medicaid. A Planned Parenthood affiliate in California has already been forced to close five clinics<\/a> as a result of the \u201cdefunding\u201d provision.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood estimated that, in all, more than 1 million patients could lose care.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will keep fighting this cruel law so that everyone can get birth control, STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings and other critical healthcare, no matter their insurance,\u201d the Planned Parenthood Federation of America\u2019s president and CEO, Alexis McGill Johnson, said in a statement after the Monday ruling.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is battling overwhelming political and economic headwinds. Even if it prevails against the Trump administration, its affiliates could still be removed from Medicaid in red states, thanks to a June decision by the US supreme court<\/a> in favor of South Carolina in a case involving the state\u2019s attempt to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program. \u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, the state of Missouri also sued the Planned Parenthood Federation of America \u2013 the mothership organization that knits together Planned Parenthood\u2019s network of regional affiliates \u2013\u00a0over accusations that the organization downplayed the medical risks of a common abortion pill, mifepristone, \u201cto cut costs and boost revenue\u201d. The lawsuit, which asks for more than $1m in damages, is part of an ongoing campaign by anti-abortion activists<\/a> to cut off access to mifepristone.<\/p>\n

More than 100 studies, conducted across dozens of countries and over more than three decades, have concluded that mifepristone is a safe way to end a pregnancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114934552053691992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}