Planned Parenthood officially shut down its last two clinics in Louisiana on Tuesday, leaving the state as the most populous in the country without any of the abortion provider’s locations.
With the closures in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana joins Wyoming, North Dakota, and Mississippi as the only states without any Planned Parenthood clinics. The shutdowns follow major federal funding cuts for abortion providers under the Republican-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“This is a win for babies, a win for mothers, and a win for LIFE!” Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry posted on X Tuesday.
The GOP’s tax and spending bill, signed into law in July, blocked Medicaid funding for abortion providers. While a federal judge initially blocked enforcement of that provision after Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration, an appeals court lifted the injunction earlier this month.
Planned Parenthood has warned that up to 200 of its clinics could close if federal funding is cut. So far this year, at least 41 of their facilities have closed, according to Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston also shut down “Prevention Park,” the largest Planned Parenthood clinic in the Western Hemisphere, on Tuesday.
“This is not a decision we wanted to make; it is one we were forced into by political warfare,” said Melaney Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, in a statement when the Louisiana closures were first announced in August. “Anti-reproductive health lawmakers obsessed with power and control have spent decades fighting the concept that people deserve to control their own bodies. These extremists have done everything they can to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood, dismantle public health infrastructure, and block patients from the care they rely on.”
Undercover footage obtained by the Center for Medical Progress in 2015 allegedly showed the then-director of research of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast discussing harvesting and selling body parts of aborted babies.
Planned Parenthood performed over 400,000 abortions in fiscal year 2023-24 and received more than $700 million in government reimbursements and grants, according to its latest annual report. Meanwhile, private contributions dropped 31% in FY 2023-2024 compared to the previous year, totaling $684.1 million.
Planned Parenthood did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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