A community of Maine reproductive healthcare clinics introduced on Wednesday that it has begun making cuts to a few of its providers 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 % of its annual finances, or $1.9 million, due to a defunding provision within the Trump administration’s Large Stunning Invoice that eradicated Medicaid funding for non-abortion providers provided by abortion suppliers,” Ohm wrote.
“The group introduced it has begun notifying sufferers (almost 1,000) that their major care practices in Ellsworth, Presque Isle, and Houlton will shut down on October 31, 2025, citing the fast fallout from President Donald Trump’s finances reconciliation invoice,” Channa Steinmetz wrote for Maine Beacon.
“Congress’ defunding provision has had a right away, devastating affect 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 regulation has put us in an unattainable scenario. Discharging and turning away weak sufferers strikes on the very coronary heart of MFP’s fame as a trusted group 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 court docket, Patrick Whittle and Geoff Mulvihill reported for APNews. Nevertheless, they wrote, it confronted a setback in August when a federal decide dominated towards restoring funding in the course of the community’s ongoing lawsuit towards the Trump administration. The community has appealed to a better court docket however has not but obtained 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 keeping with a provision in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending regulation, 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.
