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Citing budget challenges and impending federal funding cuts, the abortion giant Planned Parenthood is going to close eight facilities located across Minnesota and Iowa, Off the Press reported May 24.
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which operates 23 abortion facilities, announced the closures May 23. In Minnesota, four of its facilities will close, 66 employees will be laid off, 37 will be reassigned, and 35 more positions will be cut, according to MPR News.
The outlet reported that Planned Parenthood North Central States’ President and CEO Ruth Richardson said the affiliate company has “been fighting to hold together an unsustainable infrastructure” amid shifting landscapes and challenges against them.
In its closure announcement, Planned Parenthood noted that the Trump administration froze $2.8 million in federal funding for the Minnesota-based Planned Parenthood sites and that proposed Medicaid cuts were a factor as well.
Off the Press noted that the announcement came the day after the United States House of Representatives passed a reconciliation bill that would significantly defund Planned Parenthood for the next decade.
Earlier this month, CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky weighed in on the progress being made to defund the abortion company that killed 402,200 unborn children between 2023 and 2024 alone.
“Defunding abortion-giant Planned Parenthood, and other abortion facilities, has been a goal of the pro-life movement for decades,” McClusky said. “We have exposed their compliance with fraud, statutory rape, baby body part trafficking, and numerous other abuses, yet never seemed to move Congress to defund. This Congress, and President Trump, deserve high praise for delivering on an overdue promise from the Republican Party.”
McClusky also signed a May 27 letter with the leaders of eight other pro-life organizations asking interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to investigate the suspected infanticide of five babies by a Washington, D.C., abortionist.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has emphasized that abortion is the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholic voters, has expressed support for the bill defunding Planned Parenthood. Bishops Daniel Thomas and Robert Barron decried that Planned Parenthood has used government money for decades to give women “one terrible option: to end the lives of their babies.”
The bishops stated that they applaud efforts to help defund the abortion giant, adding, “We encourage greater support for authentic, life affirming health care providers that serve mothers and their children in need.”
The Minnesota and Iowa Planned Parenthood closures mark the latest in a string of similar announcements from Planned Parenthood affiliates around the country. In April, the abortion giant announced that three Michigan locations would be closing due to funding cuts from the Trump administration; the closure of the only abortion facility in Manhattan was announced in March, several months after the closure of four other New York-based facilities were announced; and in January, the abortion business announced that four facilities in Illinois would be closing.