SF CHRONICLE – President Donald Trump’s budget cuts to Medicaid have forced Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to shutter five clinics across Northern California and the Central Coast, including one in South San Francisco, the group said Thursday.
The GOP-led federal spending bill that Trump signed into law earlier this month eliminated federal Medicaid funding for any type of medical care to organizations that perform abortions.
Mar Monte is the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the country, with 35 health care centers across Bakersfield, the Bay Area, Stockton and Sacramento. The now-shuttered facilities also include San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Gilroy and Madera.
The closures represent some of the first indications of how the recent federal budget cuts will have real consequences for health clinics across the country — particularly those serving low-income Americans.
They are also a crushing blow to a state that positioned itself as an abortion haven after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
In the year after the decision, political leaders in California — led by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic-controlled Legislature — passed more than a dozen new laws and invested more than $200 million to increase access across the state. Thursday’s announcement drives home the extent of the federal government’s tremendous power to impact abortion access.
“Trump says he’s pro-life — just not the lives of women or anyone needing cancer screenings,” Newsom spokesman Izzy Gardon said Thursday. “California is working with Planned Parenthood to do what we can in this tough budget environment to protect access to care.”
Roughly 80% of Mar Monte’s patients received Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid.
Ten million people are expected to lose their health insurance because of nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office …
