State by state Planned Parenthood is announcing that they will no longer provide any health services for Medicaid patients.

It wasn’t enough that in NINETEEN SEVENTY SIX the Hyde amendment blocked the use of federal dollars for abortion care.

It wasn’t enough that abortion care only comprised 4% of Planned Parenthood services. That, again, federal money has not been used to provide for 49 years. Are you with me?

In 2024 Planned Parenthood cared for over 2 million patients. This was 9.4 million services that were provided in birth control information and services, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment services, and cancer screenings and prevention services. Not to mention all the education for women on all of these things.

This included birth control information and services. Another naughty no no word by this federal government. After all, the president made a very clumsy analogy to birth control and IUDs being an abortifacient. This means that they cause abortion. Which anyone with a working MD license or a nursing license will assure you that birth control and IUDs do not.

Planned Parenthood also educated a lot of women. Education of women on their rights and their bodies is also a naughty no no word by this administration.

You know what else Planned Parenthood does? It tests for sexually transmitted diseases and gives treatment when appropriate. You guessed it! Another naughty no no word by this administration. Never mind that pregnancy is sexually transmitted.

Planned Parenthood also did over 400,000 cancer screenings and prevention services. These can be your mammograms and your pap smears. I like my grandma not dying of a preventable/treatable cancer, don’t you?

Different states have attempted to push through defunding Planned Parenthood. Yes, mostly red states. (Insert eye roll here)

The “big beautiful bill” that was signed into law on July 4th, 2025 defunded Planned Parenthood. This also significantly cut federal Medicaid funding of all programs. Reminder, again, that no federal money go to abortions and haven’t for 49 years.

Planned Parenthood used the courts to fight back. and there was a pause was ordered. Guess what? The federal government appealed and got a stay on the pause while the case is working its way through the courts.

Of course.

The Planned Parenthood in North Carolina has an announcement on their website that they can’t accept Medicaid patients. They are quick to reassure patients that there are options for payment outside of Medicaid.

Planned Parenthood, the Weebles of healthcare.

Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down.

Why?

Because they care about women.

Unlike some people I could name.

They really do hate us, don’t they? They want us in their neat little boxes and heaven forbid if we step out of the path that the men have decided for us.