Trump administration cutting some funds to Planned Parenthood
The Trump administration will withhold some federal funding from Planned Parenthood beginning Tuesday, potentially making it harder for Americans to access birth control, cancer screenings, and reproductive health care, the organization said in a press release.
Nine Planned Parenthood affiliates received notices late Monday about the Trump administration’s plans to withhold Title X funding starting April 1, according to the release.
Neither the White House nor the Department of Health and Human Services have responded to requests for comment from The Hill.
Title X is the country’s only federal program dedicated to providing affordable birth control and other sexual and reproductive health care to low-income Americans and has done so since the 1970s.
In 2023, the program supported almost 4,000 clinics serving close to 2.8 million people, according to health advocacy nonprofit KFF.
That year, Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers provided more than 5 million sexually transmitted infection services, over 2 million birth control services and more than 400,000 cancer screening and prevention services, according to the organization.
Reproductive rights advocates have been worried that President Donald Trump would restrict Title X funding as he did during his first term. In 2019, the first Trump administration issued a rule that prohibited providers from receiving Title X funding if they mentioned abortion or referred patients for abortions.
Planned Parenthood left the program because of the rule and re-entered it in 2021 after the Biden administration reversed it.
“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.”