{"id":332171,"date":"2025-10-25T19:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332171\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:14:39","slug":"california-gives-planned-parenthood-140-million-boost-to-keep-clinics-open-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332171\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gives Planned Parenthood $140 Million Boost to Keep Clinics Open | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Planned Parenthood location in downtown Fresno on Sept. 8, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters\/CatchLight Local<\/p>\n

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After months of financial strain, Planned Parenthood will get a $140 million lifeline to offset losses it sustained after Congress in July cut funding for the health system<\/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The money will help Planned Parenthood keep 109 California clinics open. In a statement, Newsom said the move reflects the state\u2019s continued commitment to abortion and reproductive health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood put all our communities at risk as people seek basic health care from these community providers,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers will also take up the issue in January when the Legislature reconvenes.<\/p>\n

The news comes a week after the nonprofit organization announced it would eliminate primary care at clinics in Orange and San Bernardino counties<\/a>. Five other clinics also closed in July in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz and Central Valley, all in response to federal defunding.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood needs roughly $27 million monthly to operate all of its local facilities, according to Jodi Hicks, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, the organization\u2019s statewide advocacy group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly grateful that we\u2019ve found a way to get some funding out to our Planned Parenthood health centers so they can remain operating and continue services,\u201d Hicks said. <\/p>\n

California is the fourth state, following Washington<\/a>, Colorado<\/a> and New Mexico<\/a>, to pledge public funds to keep Planned Parenthood afloat. Lawmakers in Oregon and New York are also considering similar moves.<\/p>\n

Republicans have lambasted and targeted Planned Parenthood for decades over contraceptive and abortion services. A 1977 law banned federal funding for abortions, but this summer President Donald Trump took additional steps to cut down the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider.<\/p>\n

His sweeping tax and budget bill prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid dollars for any kinds of services, including mammograms, pap smears, birth control and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment.<\/p>\n

According to Planned Parenthood, abortions account for less than 10% of its services, while other reproductive health services make up the bulk of medical care provided.<\/p>\n

Federal funding losses have forced Planned Parenthood to close clinics across the country, where half of all patients rely on Medicaid. In California, where 80% of Planned Parenthood patients have Medicaid \u2013 known as Medi-Cal<\/a> in the state \u2013 the losses are even greater.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was definitely an outsized impact on California,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n

Primary care closures ripple across the state<\/p>\n

Democratic lawmakers, Newsom and Planned Parenthood have spent most of the year searching for a funding solution that protects reproductive health access without cash from federal coffers. But, faced with a multibillion-dollar state deficit, solutions have been slow to appear and challenging to maintain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll fight like hell to maintain access to care in the coming months and years,\u201d said Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, a Davis Democrat who leads the Legislative Women\u2019s Caucus,<\/p>\n

Even with the state\u2019s pledge to protect sexual and reproductive health care, Planned Parenthood clinics face growing uncertainty driven by federal grant freezes, lawsuits<\/a> and even some proposed state cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, Planned Parenthood in Orange and San Bernardino counties announced facilities would close primary care services on Dec. 13. The group, which runs nine health centers, added primary care more than a decade ago to serve low-income patients unable to find appointments elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Dr. Janet Jacobson, medical director of the Orange and San Bernardino counties clinics, said the federal actions are \u201cdestroying our primary care program.\u201d She said she worries patients with urgent mental health needs or chronic conditions won\u2019t be able to quickly find another provider. Many communities in the region have too few doctors, according to state data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roughly 13,000 patients will lose access to care and Planned Parenthood will lay off 77 staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s inhumane to take away people\u2019s health care,\u201d Jacobson said. \u201cFolks that have Medi-Cal should be able to see the provider of their choice for primary care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aguiar-Curry called the loss of primary care \u201cunacceptable and dangerous.\u201d <\/p>\n

Seeking stability as \u2018financial cliff\u2019 still looms<\/p>\n

Farther north, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte \u2014 which runs 30 health centers along the California coast, Central Valley and Nevada \u2014 closed five health centers in July shortly after Trump blocked Planned Parenthood\u2019s funding.<\/p>\n

Mar Monte Chief of Staff Andrew Adams said the organization has been working to maintain its financial stability. The closures helped preserve services at the organization\u2019s other clinics until the end of the year, but Adams warned that it could hit a \u201cfinancial cliff\u201d in January. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are planning for an environment where there is no federal funding,\u201d Adams said. \u201cWhat that looks like is having to potentially charge patients some amount of money for services we provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Planned Parenthood groups in the state are exploring ways to cut costs and boost revenue while keeping clinics open for patients.<\/p>\n

Dr. Neda Ashtari, a former Planned Parenthood and Medi-Cal patient, emphasized the importance of ensuring more than 1 million patients continue to have access to cancer screenings and other reproductive health services. When Ashtari was a teenager, her mother died of breast cancer after missing routine scans that could have detected the cancer earlier, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really crystallizes that this preventative care is the difference between life or death,\u201d Ashtari said.<\/p>\n

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Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Planned Parenthood location in downtown Fresno on Sept. 8, 2022. Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":332172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-332171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115436405656726131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}