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Medicaid is used by more than 70 million Americans — especially people with low incomes — to get health care. That includes essential reproductive health services at Planned Parenthood like birth control, wellness exams, STI tests and treatment, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and more.
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Cuts to Medicaid would do the most harm to people with low incomes, Black, Latino and other people of color, women, and those in LGBTQ+ communities — people who already have a harder time getting basic health services, because of systemic racism and discrimination.
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More than half the patients who visit Planned Parenthood health centers use Medicaid coverage and other publicly funded programs to get the care they need.
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Proposed funding cuts mean millions of patients who rely on Planned Parenthood's community-based network of nearly 600 nonprofit health centers would have nowhere else to turn.
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The escalating attacks on Medicaid aren't new. They're part of a longtime strategy by abortion opponents to target patients' access to reproductive health care and shut down Planned Parenthood health centers — largely located in rural and medically underserved areas.
Plain and simple: At least one in three women will visit a Planned Parenthood health center for care in her lifetime.
An attack on programs like Medicaid is an attack on patients who need the affordable care Planned Parenthood provides.
And you know whats worse? A lot of these funding cuts are being proposed to pay for President Trump's priorities — like bigger tax cuts for the wealthy.
We need to stop these attacks on health care funding NOW. Tell Congress to protect Medicaid and access to Planned Parenthood health centers.
Every member of Congress represents a huge number of people who use Medicaid. It's time for them to act like it.
Jenny Lawson, Vice President of Organizing and Electoral Campaigns
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
