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 amenities 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 companies.
With 35 clinics round California, Mar Monte is the biggest Deliberate Parenthood affiliate within the nation. The 5 facilities set to shut have served over 22,000 sufferers previously 12 months, lots of whom are low-income with few options for reasonably priced well being care.
The funding cuts concentrating on Deliberate Parenthood are a part of a broader bundle of federal cost-cutting measures that Republicans say are geared toward decreasing long-term entitlement spending. Well being coverage analysts, nevertheless, have warned the cuts might destabilize the nation’s safety-net well being system, particularly in underserved areas that rely closely on federally backed care.
In June, Deliberate Parenthood warned that underneath the “big, beautiful bill,” the group may very well be compelled to shut as much as 200 clinics.
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