Planned Parenthood is bracing for a wave of funding cuts beginning on Tuesday.
The Trump administration will withhold some federal funding from Planned Parenthood, potentially making it harder for Americans to access birth control, cancer screenings, and reproductive health care. Nine Planned Parenthood affiliates received notices late Monday that Title X funding would be withheld starting April 1st, according to the release.
Title X, the nation’s only federal program dedicated to providing affordable reproductive health care to low-income Americans, has existed since the 1970s. In 2023, it supported nearly 4,000 clinics serving about 2.8 million people, according to health advocacy nonprofit KFF. That year, Planned Parenthood centers provided over 5 million sexually transmitted infection services, more than 2 million birth control services, and upwards of 400,000 cancer screenings, according to The Hill.
Reproductive rights advocates have feared that Trump would again restrict Title X funding as he did in his first term. In 2019, his administration shockingly blocked providers from receiving funds if they mentioned or referred patients for abortions. Planned Parenthood left the program in protest but rejoined in 2021 after the Biden administration reversed the rule.
“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
“We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens.”
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