Two Planned Parenthood Abortion Centers Will Close in Ohio Thanks to Defunding

Thanks to the new federal law defunding America’s biggest abortion business, Planned Parenthood has announced it will close two abortion centers in Ohio.

And the closings will take place even though a Democrat-appointed judge has blocked the federal defunding law.

In July, Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region announced the upcoming closure of its abortion centers in Springfield and Hamilton, which the abortion giant said was “a direct result” of the One Big Beautiful Bill that Congress passed and President Trump signed into law.

“Make no mistake: this was not a decision made by Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region,” said Nan Whaley, President & CEO of the abortion giant. “We took every possible step to keep these centers open, but the devastating impact of state and federal political attacks has forced us into this very difficult position.”

Planned Parenthood will close the centers this week.

Officials with the abortion business confirmed the centers are still closing despite the judge’s ruling because an appeal is expected and the law and its defunding components are expected to be upheld. Thus, if Planned Parenthood gets the tax dollars, there is a possibility it would have to repay them.

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“From the Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio perspective, unfortunately for many smaller affiliates, the risk of the federal government requesting back pay if the injunction expires is still too great,” said Maya McKenzie, communications manager for the abortion company.

McKenzie said the first course of action the U.S. Department of Justice promised should they ultimately win the lawsuit was to request “fund repayment” from the organization.

So far this year, the Planned Parenthood abortion business has closed 38 centers. Despite what the abortion giant and the media would have Americans think, they all participated in abortions.

Some would kill babies directly with surgical abortions. Others would kill babies by selling the dangerous abortion pill that also kills and injures women. Still others would make abortion referrals – with Planned Parenthood locations in pro-life states arranging abortions in other states or using telehealth to sell abortion pills to women in violation of state pro-life laws.

The closures don’t mean that every baby the Planned Parenthood center would have killed will be saved. The abortion business is desperate for cash from killing babies – so it will make every effort to sell women abortions over the phone or Internet.

But for some babies and some women, lives will be spared because a physical Planned Parenthood location is not available.

One closing that received little attention occurred in Joplin, Missouri at the very beginning of the year. The abortion giant announced late last year that its center in this Midwestern state would close on January 1 — which is vitally important given that a radical amendment legalized abortions in in Missouri and pro-life advocates are fighting hard to save as many babies as possible in the Show Me State. It’s also important given the fact that Planned Parenthood in Missouri is infamous for injuring women in botched abortions — and fewer victims is an important goal.

The abortion company called the closure part of an effort to re-organize and expand abortions.

Three Planned Parenthood clinics in eastern and southern Missouri will shut their doors next month, though the organization’s leaders insist the moves will ultimately expand access to reproductive health care. As part of the consolidation effort, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers will be expanding telehealth services and hours at its remaining St. Louis clinics.

On Nov. 1, the Florissant health center in North St. Louis County and the South Grand Health Center just south of downtown St. Louis will close.

On Jan. 1, the health center in Joplin will also close. No staff members are being laid off as part of the restructuring, Planned Parenthood said in a press release.

Two of the more recent closures, on West Charleston and East Flamingo in Las Vegas, Nevada, were announced in late June to little fanfare likely because the abortion business appears to have merged the centers into one larger Planned Parenthood abortion facility.

Those changes include closing its only two clinics at the time in the Las Vegas Valley, located on West Charleston and East Flamingo, earlier this spring, and opening a North Las Vegas health center — now its only clinic in the Las Vegas area — this April.

I learned that it’s part of a structural reorganization, which Planned Parenthood officials say was spurred by the changing healthcare policy landscape post-Roe.

That reorganization saw Southern Nevada move from Planned Parenthood’s Rocky Mountains (PPRM) territory to its Mar Monte (PPMM) territory.

The shift to the Mar Monte jurisdiction, which includes parts of California and Northern Nevada, brings all of Nevada under one purview, which officials say is useful since abortion regulations are now left up to each state, after the consequential 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe.

According to Planned Parenthood, the territorial shift, though it involved closing two valley clinics, will allow for the future expansion of services in the valley in the long run. That’s because officials say the Planned Parenthood territory Southern Nevada previously was grouped under includes clinics in Colorado and New Mexico, which saw a huge increase in clients from neighboring states with restrictive abortion policies post-Roe.

Meanwhile, American Life League confirms that two Planned Parenthood centers, in Moon Township, PA and Bellmawr, NJ, have also closed. Planned Parenthood closed the Moon Township center on March 31 and the New Jersey center was open just one day a week and is no longer listed on Planned Parenthood’s national web site.

While expanding the abortion business is not good news, most of the closures are good news in that it means Planned Parenthood is operating fewer abortion businesses in fewer places.

And for Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life, that’s a reason to celebrate.

“Just in the last few days, we’ve received confirmation that Planned Parenthood centers are closing following 40 Days for Life vigils in: Hamilton, Ohio–in spite of the state enshrining a right to abortion in its constitution; Evansville, Indiana; Santa Cruz, Gilroy, and San Mateo, California; Houston and my hometown of Tyler, Texas,” he explained.

“Certainly, the defunding of Planned Parenthood played a role–but there’s rarely just one reason an abortion business closes its doors,” Carney added.

That’s prayer. And the in-person witness of pro-life Americans outside abortion centers who are saving babies and helping women find better alternatives.

“When an ACLU spokesperson told a room full of abortion supporters about the abortion industry’s biggest challenge, that spokesperson didn’t talk about politicians or legislation,” he said. “Instead, she described 40 Days for Life as “the greatest threat to choice” because it is so “organized and effective.”

The list of Planned Parenthood closures to this point is worth celebrating. It’s a victory. A win in a small battle. But the larger war against killing babies in abortions continues. And like Carney, millions of pro-life Americans will continue fighting.

Here are the 38 Planned Parenthood closures in 2025:

Gilroy, CA
Madera, CA
San Diego, CA
San Mateo, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
South San Francisco, CA
Bloomington, IL
Decatur, IL
Englewood, IL
Ottawa, IL
Evansville, IN
Ames, IA
Cedar Rapids, IA
Sioux City, IA
Urbandale, IA
Jackson, MI
Petoskey, MI
Marquette, MI
Ann Arbor, MI
Apple Valley, MN
Richfield, MN
Alexandria, MN
Bemidji, MN
Joplin, MO
West Charleston, Las Vegas, NV
East Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV
Bellmawr, NJ
Manhattan, NY
Springfield, OH
Hamilton, OH
Cleveland, OH
Moon Township, PA
Houston TX (2)
Tyler, TX
St. George, UT
Logan, UT
St. Johnsbury, VT

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