Why are So Many Planned Parenthood Clinics Closing Down?

Planned Parenthood has had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. So far, 40 clinics have announced closures, in red and blue states alike—and we’re still counting.

Why is the abortion giant, which received over $800 million in federal funding last year alone, in such dire straits? There are lots of factors, many involving recent public policy changes. But there have also been ongoing changes to the broader landscape, years in the making, that affect its operations and business model.

Here’s what you need to know.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration started clawing back Title X family planning grant money from Planned Parenthoods that might have failed to comply with anti-DEI policies. More such action seems inevitable if and when the administration revives a regulation prohibiting Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving certain grants if they refuse to separate their abortion work from their non-abortion work.

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Then, in June, a Supreme Court decision paved the way for states to defund Planned Parenthood.

And in July, Congress passed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which included a provision prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for one year. That provision is currently blocked during litigation as abortion activists (and activist judges) try their best to argue that the Constitution somewhere, somehow, requires Congress to fund Planned Parenthood despite a duly elected Congress passing a bill that says otherwise.

Nonetheless, such actions are having an immediate effect.

Already, Planned Parenthood is assuming that more states will follow South Carolina’s lead and cut off state funding. The abortion giant also clearly isn’t confident that activist judges will save its Medicaid funding that was stripped by the One Big, Beautiful Bill. And ever since President Trump’s re-election, Planned Parenthood is well aware it can’t continue its abortion business without fully separating it, physically and financially, from Title X family planning services—at least if it wants to keep grants for such services.

All those millions add up—and quickly.

Many pro-lifers had hoped for a longer timeframe for the One Big, Beautiful Bill’s ban on Planned Parenthood funding. In fact, the original version called for a 10-year defund, not one year. Still, many clinics simply can’t function without the taxpayer support they’ve received in the past—even for one year.

Let’s hope the trend continues. Women, girls, and unborn children win when they can get real health care, with real choices, somewhere else.

LifeNews Note: Melanie Israel writes for The Daily Signal, where this column originally appeared.

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