More than 40 Planned Parenthood locations that either perform or refer for abortions are closing in 2025, according to Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a pro-life advocacy organization.
“It’s important for the pro-life movement to see the impact of this — and also to see the momentum and how life is winning right now,” Kelsey Pritchard, spokesperson and political affairs communications director at SBA Pro-Life America, told Our Sunday Visitor. “And to keep going because there’s so much more left we have to do in the fight for life.”
A new interactive map on SBA Pro-Life America’s website shows that Planned Parenthood — the nation’s largest abortion provider — has or will shutter the doors of 41 of its clinics across 16 states.
“We decided to start tracking these because there have been so many this year already,” Pritchard said. “We’ve got 34 that have closed their doors, seven that have announced they will close their doors — and we know there are more to come with this law.”
SBA Pro-Life America released the map following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which included a provision that would prohibit Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year. A federal judge has since blocked the provision while a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood proceeds.
Most of the clinic closures are happening in anticipation of the provision going into effect, Pritchard said. Planned Parenthood itself, she said, estimates that around 200 of their locations could close from the provision.
“This would impact about half a billion dollars that they get every year,” she said. “That’s how much that they get in Medicaid.”
A look at the numbers
According to its most recent annual report for 2023-2024, Planned Parenthood received $792.2 million in “government health services reimbursements & grants,” which is how payments from Medicaid managed care plans are listed, for the year ending on June 30, 2023. These reimbursements and grants made up 39% of Planned Parenthood’s revenue for that year. While federal law generally bars taxpayer funding from going toward abortion, pro-life leaders have expressed concern that funding is fungible and could help clinics perform abortions indirectly.
The report also documented that Planned Parenthood ended the lives of more than 402,200 unborn babies in abortion in a year. That number represented an increase of nearly 10,000 abortions compared to the previous year’s report.
SBA Pro-Life America’s map pinpoints the closures geographically. It also includes a table listing the number of life-affirming health providers within a 50-mile driving distance of the closed Planned Parenthood clinics. Community health centers provide an alternative to women on Medicaid and outnumber Planned Parenthood locations 15 to one, according to SBA Pro-Life America. An analysis by the organization counted more than 8,800 community health providers and only 579 in-person and virtual Planned Parenthood locations.
“They offer far more services,” Pritchard said of these centers. “When you go to a community health center, and you’re on Medicaid, you’re going to get more comprehensive care.”
“These places offer far better care, and they don’t end the lives of unborn children,” she said. Women on Medicaid, she added, are going to be “far better served by these community health centers that are way more accessible.”
She also said that media outlets, such as The New York Times, are beginning to report on the dangers of Planned Parenthood. The headline of one story earlier this year read, “Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis.”
Pritchard called the latest developments and Planned Parenthood closures “the biggest victory since the Dobbs decision,” referring to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. The 2022 ruling overturned Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, and freed states to decide abortion policy.
“We know we need to keep up the fight,” she added. “There’s still 1.1 million unborn children who lose their lives to abortion every year — and that’s a higher number than it was … before the Dobbs decision and at the time of the Dobbs decision.”
She concluded, “It’s going to take all of us praying, asking God where he can use us, and then us being obedient and standing up for unborn children and their mothers.”
