In a White House ceremony on July 4, President Donald Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” into law, delivering major policy victories for conservatives. Among the provisions in the bill is the defunding of Planned Parenthood by barring the organization from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for one year.
With Trump’s signature, the defunding measure now goes into effect, marking the most significant federal restriction on Planned Parenthood funding in nearly a decade.
The legislation follows the Supreme Court’s June decision in Medina v. South Carolina, which upheld states’ rights to exclude abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs. The ruling also bars patients from challenging those exclusions in federal court, effectively opening the door for national defunding efforts like the one signed into law this week.
In Alaska, the fallout could be swift and life-saving. After closing its clinic in Juneau in December and its Soldotn facility three years earlier, Planned Parenthood operates just two remaining clinics in the state — one in Anchorage and one in Fairbanks. Both of the remaining clinics rely heavily on Medicaid funding to provide a range of services, including venereal disease testing, reproductive cancer screenings, abortion, contraception, and gender transition services.
Now, with the federal government cutting off that support, the future of these clinics is in jeopardy.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America has vowed to sue the Trump administration over the Medicaid defunding, but its path forward is uncertain since the abortion organization would have to also sue the House and Senate. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Medina significantly narrowed the ability of patients and providers to challenge Medicaid exclusions in court, leaving few legal avenues open.
Planned Parenthood is transitioning to provide hormone replacement therapy for those trying to transition as transgenders. In 2021, the organization had over 35,000 hormone replacement therapy appointments at 41 of 49 of its regional branches offering transgender services by 2022. Abortions, however, are still its biggest focus.
While national attention is focused on the political and legal fallout, in Alaska, the practical consequences may soon become clear. If no alternative funding is found, the Anchorage and Fairbanks clinics could shut down in the coming months, which could spare the lives of hundreds of unborn babies per year.
Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 annual report stated it performed 402,200 abortions across the country In Alaska, with only two clinics and a smaller population, the number is likely a fraction of this total. In 2014, a report counted 1,547 abortions in Alaska, with Planned Parenthood as the primary abortion provider.
Planned Parenthood, which is protected by the Alaska Supreme Court’s ruling that performing abortions up until the time of a baby’s natural birth is a matter of the mother’s privacy right, may end up running out of money now that the One Big Beautiful Bill has been signed into law.
These life saving measures will devastate Democrats. And with the additional cuts to health-care, there won’t be any prescription drugs for mental health.
It is sickening that the Alaska Supreme Court opines that a viable baby may be murdered if the mother says so. That is obscene.
Hormone replacement therapies, abortion – what’s next assisted suicide?
This is EVIL shXX.
All societies have had human sacrifice as some sacrosanct practice – all based on “high minded” ideas.
We are no different than the Aztecs “sacrificing” humans to prevent pestilence and insure plentiful rain for the crops, the Moabites in the bible sacrificing people in times of peril, the Egyptians sacrificing hundreds of servants to be buried with the pharaoh’s, the Norse sacrificing women and children to insure success in battle, the Lithuanians burning people at the stake to avenge perceived dishonors – right up until the with burnings in America in the late 1690’s here in America.
We look at ALL of this behaviour as wrong, stupid, and bad.
Today – we are doing the same thing with abortion, genital mutilation of minors, and assisted suicide – yet the “high minded” amongst us believe they are virtuous and pure.
History will reveal then fir the sick, perverted, evil, immoral scum they truly are ……
You actually lumped in hormone replacement therapy as murder? Are you mixing your meds again? Try talking to any healthy and vibrant senior and see how if they use HRT treatments to live a better life. The “your body is mine to rule” crowd never learns.
What does the bill mean? Fewer confused and frightened mothers will be counseled and nudged into having their babies grotesquely dismembered and thrown into a trash can. It means fewer might-have-been mothers who endure years of mental torture or counseling or drugs to ameliorate their grief for killing their unborn — all under the guise of women’s reproductive health.
As an adoptee, my heartfelt reaction is a Biblical “Amen”.
Buh-bye Planned Parenthood!
Hopefully the morons currently running that s**tshow will move on and those really interested in WOMEN’S health can pickup the pieces and start over – without the abortions and transgender treatments. I’d gladly support that.
Thank you, Lord, for saving the lives of the *most innocent* among us — the precious babies in their mother’s womb.