A network of family planning clinics in Maine will remain without Medicaid funding as it challenges Trump administration restrictions on abortion providers, a federal judge ruled Monday. The decision leaves Maine Family Planning unable to access reimbursements that support thousands of low-income patients during the course of its lawsuit.
The cuts stem from President Donald Trump 's policy and tax measure, known as the "big beautiful bill," which barred Medicaid dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider. The law also swept in smaller organizations such as Maine Family Planning, which operates 18 clinics across one of the poorest and most rural states in the Northeast.
Maine Family Planning argues the policy unfairly targets its operations even tho