How Planned Parenthood’s defunding could leave more than a million patients without health care

Shefali Luthra

Reproductive Health Reporter

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Planned Parenthood clinics across the country are scrambling to secure funding and determine next steps for patients after a move to block them from accepting Medicaid was allowed to go into effect. This win for the Trump administration represents a major step toward the longtime Republican goal of “defunding” Planned Parenthood and puts the future of clinics and the patients they treat in question.

“I am not in a place right now where I can definitively predict what the future holds for Planned Parenthood and for our footprint across the nation, but what I am committed to right now is doing everything possible to keep our doors open,” said Rebecca Gibron, CEO of the Planned Parenthood aff