Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding Restored

TRUMP|HEALTH POLITICS

Dems seek to promote a Big Beautiful Bill rollback

Planned Parenthood Building in Houston, Texas — Image by Hourick

Don’t count Planned Parenthood out just yet.

Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration early in July over a provision in the Big Beautiful Bill (BBS) tax-and-spending law that cut off large organizations that offer abortions from federal Medicaid funding for one year.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a temporary injunction last week in response to the lawsuit.

Today (July 28), the magistrate expanded the temporary injunction she issued last week, restoring Medicaid for ten Planned Parenthood affiliates.

The jurist determined that the BBB specifically retaliated against the organization, violating its First Amendment rights.

Talwani wrote in her ruling, “Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable.”

The federal judge added, “In particular, restricting Members’ 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.”

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