200 Planned Parenthood Centers Could Close Once Defunding Law is Upheld

The largest abortion supplier in America is seeing its empire trimmed down in recent months, with at least 30 facilities closing since January, including its largest facility, along with six others within the last week. Pro-life experts expressed cautious optimism over the news, saying that the rising use of the abortion pill may overshadow the need for brick-and-mortar abortion facilities.

On Friday, Planned Parenthood announced that it will be closing five facilities in northern California because of the loss of Medicaid funds due to the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill earlier this month, which banned all Medicaid reimbursements for abortion businesses getting at least $800,000 in reimbursement for one year. That same day, Planned Parenthood also announced that it was shuttering two businesses in Houston, Texas, including the “largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere,” according to Shawn Carney, founder and CEO of 40 Days for Life.

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Those seven closures are just the latest in a string of at least 30 facilities that the abortion behemoth has shut down across the country since the beginning of the year. Since January, Planned Parenthood has closed four facilities in Illinois, one in New York City, four in Michigan, one in Vermont, four in Minnesota, two in Utah, four in Iowa, two in Ohio, and one in Indiana. The abortion behemoth has pointed to increasing health care costs and the rise in telemedicine services as some of the primary reasons for the closures, along with the Big Beautiful Bill Medicaid restriction.

In May, Planned Parenthood announced that up to 200 facilities were in danger of closing due to stipulations in the bill. It remains to be seen whether more of the organization’s approximately 600 facilities nationwide will close. According to the abortion supplier’s latest annual report, the organization carried out over 400,000 abortions in fiscal year 2023, ending the lives of over 1,100 babies per day. All the while, eugenicist Margaret Sanger’s organization received $699 million in FY2022 and $792 million in FY2023 of taxpayer funding.

In recent years, 45 of Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s 49 affiliates have also become suppliers of hormones to individuals who identify as transgender, including estrogen and anti-androgen hormone therapy, testosterone, and puberty blocking drugs. Research shows that the use of cross-sex hormones leads to sterilization as well as blood clots, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other adverse health effects. In addition, puberty blocking drugs reduce bone density, disrupt brain development, increase the risk of arterial hypertension, and can increase both body fat percentage and body mass index.

Pro-life advocates like Carney are celebrating the closures as a win for life. “This is massive news for the pro-life movement and shows the direction that Planned Parenthood is going, which is down,” he told Fox News. “… They are very, very vulnerable. When you look at the New York closing and the Houston closing, this is what that represents. All the nonsense about other services and serving women and helping low-income women. Because when you take away abortions or you offer alternatives, they close, and they close their most prosperous locations.”

Still, other experts like Mary Szoch, who serves as the director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, say that while the shutdowns are a welcome development, there won’t necessarily be fewer abortions as a result.

“While Americans should celebrate the closure of 30 Planned Parenthood facilities, we should also recognize that this does not necessarily mean more babies’ lives will be saved,” she told The Washington Stand. “Planned Parenthood has thrown all of their efforts behind ensuring that mifepristone can be sent through the mail — even to pro-life states. As a result, fewer brick-and-mortar facilities are needed for the culture of death titan to carry out their dirty work. As more women receive mifepristone through the mail, not only will unborn babies be harmed by the drug, but more than one in 10 pregnant mothers will experience some sort of serious side effect following taking the drug.”

“While we celebrate the closures of Planned Parenthood facilities, we must work to ensure that the Trump administration enforces federal law protecting the unborn and their mothers by preventing abortion drugs from being sent through the mail,” Szoch concluded.

LifeNews Note: Dan Hart writes for the Family Research Council. He is the senior editor of The Washington Stand.

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