A community of Maine reproductive healthcare clinics introduced on Wednesday that it has begun making cuts to a few of its companies because of the finish of federal funding, as reported by the Portland Press Herald’s Rachel Ohm.
“Maine Household Planning, which operates 18 clinics across the state, stands to lose about 20 p.c of its annual price range, or $1.9 million, due to a defunding provision within the Trump administration’s Massive Stunning Invoice that eradicated Medicaid funding for non-abortion companies supplied by abortion suppliers,” Ohm wrote.
“The group introduced it has begun notifying sufferers (practically 1,000) that their major care practices in Ellsworth, Presque Isle, and Houlton will shut down on October 31, 2025, citing the quick fallout from President Donald Trump’s price range reconciliation invoice,” Channa Steinmetz wrote for Maine Beacon.
“Congress’ defunding provision has had a direct, devastating influence on the core of who we’re and what we do,” stated George Hill, president and CEO of Maine Household Planning, in a press release, reported by Steinmetz. “The merciless and harmful legislation has put us in an inconceivable state of affairs. Discharging and turning away weak sufferers strikes on the very coronary heart of MFP’s status as a trusted neighborhood supplier that has been in a position to serve sufferers of any means for greater than 50 years.”
Maine Household Planning fought to stop the halt of Medicaid funds in federal courtroom, Patrick Whittle and Geoff Mulvihill reported for APNews. Nevertheless, they wrote, it confronted a setback in August when a federal choose dominated towards restoring funding through the community’s ongoing lawsuit towards the Trump administration. The community has appealed to a better courtroom however has not but acquired a response.
Maine Household Planning is one in all three well being organizations nationwide that the federal authorities has barred from receiving Medicaid reimbursements till the tip of September 2026, in accordance with a provision in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation, Whittle and Mulvihill wrote. It targets teams that present abortion and obtain greater than $800,000 yearly in Medicaid reimbursements. Medicaid doesn’t cowl abortion.
