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Vanessa Shields-Haas, a nurse practitioner, walks from the lobby toward the examination rooms at the Maine Family Planning healthcare facility, July 15, 2025, in Thomaston, Maine. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Congress targeted Planned Parenthood for defunding, but also caught a Maine health care provider

Planned Parenthood isn’t the only abortion provider that stands to lose Medicaid payments under a budget plan signed by President Donald Trump. The much smaller Maine Family Planning was also hit by the policy. Now, it’s suing. The law seeks to bar Medicaid payments for family planning organizations that provide abortion and received at least $800,000 in Medicaid funding in 2023. It appears the group in the rural state is the only one besides the nation’s biggest abortion provider to meet the definition. The funds in question are for services other than abortion, such as birth control and primary care.

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