Maine Family Planning is closing its primary care practice

Maine Family Planning will close its primary care practice by the end of the month.

That comes after the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that stripped Medicaid funding from Maine Family Planning, Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide abortion care.

The so-called defund provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Trump signed into law on July 4, cost the provider $2 million in funding. Under that provision, organizations such as Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning are ineligible for Medicaid reimbursements. In Maine, Medicaid is known as MaineCare.

There are numerous legal challenges to that provision, including one from the attorneys general from Maine and 20 other states.

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