Planned Parenthood, the massive, 108-year-old network of women’s and reproductive health clinics that operates almost 600 health centers across the United States, may not survive the Trump administration.
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Since returning to power in January, the Trump administration has made repeated cuts targeting Planned Parenthood’s clinics, excluding the group from the vast Title X family planning program…
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Now, the supreme court has struck another blow. [T]he court ruled that patients cannot sue to challenge their states’ exclusion of Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs. The ruling threatens to transform the Medicaid program, giving states leeway to ban Medicaid reimbursements to any practice that provides politically disfavored medicine…
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In practice, this decision enables an aggressive expansion of the states’ power to put the political preferences of Republican lawmakers between women and gender-nonconforming people and their doctors.
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The result is a de facto ban not just on abortion, but on any healthcare provision by pro-choice providers for vast swaths of American women.
