Federal Court Grants Partial Relief To Planned Parenthood ‘Defunding’ Resulting From The Federal 2025 Funding Bill  

On July 21, 2025, a district court granted Planned Parenthood partial relief from a provision of the recently enacted federal 2025 funding bill that would have made its clinics ineligible for Medicaid funding for routine health care and likely forced the organization to end operations in some states. House Bill 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed on July 4, 2025, imposed a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments for health care services to any non-profit health care entity that offers abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023. On July . . .