President Donald Trump seems to be delivering on his promise to “defund” Deliberate Parenthood.
On Thursday, Deliberate Parenthood Mar Monte introduced on social media that it’ll shut 5 clinics in Northern California after current federal funds cuts eradicated Medicaid reimbursements for clinics that carry out abortions.
The closures — affecting services in South San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Gilroy and Madera — comes simply weeks after Trump signed a federal spending invoice that bars Medicaid funding from going to any supplier that gives abortion providers.
With 35 clinics round California, Mar Monte is the most important Deliberate Parenthood affiliate within the nation. The 5 facilities set to shut have served over 22,000 sufferers up to now yr, a lot of whom are low-income with few alternate options for reasonably priced well being care.
The funding cuts concentrating on Deliberate Parenthood are a part of a broader package deal of federal cost-cutting measures that Republicans say are geared toward lowering long-term entitlement spending. Well being coverage analysts, nonetheless, have warned the cuts may destabilize the nation’s safety-net well being system, particularly in underserved areas that rely closely on federally sponsored care.
In June, Deliberate Parenthood warned that below the “big, beautiful bill,” the group might be compelled to shut as much as 200 clinics. Yesterday, a Deliberate Parenthood in Tyler, Texas introduced it might shut. A day earlier than that, Deliberate Parenthood Southwest Ohio Area mentioned it might shut two of its clinics. And even earlier than the “big, beautiful bill” handed, Deliberate Parenthood associates mentioned they’d shut 4 clinics every in Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota.
Initially Printed: July 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM PDT
