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We know that it has been a long-time goal of the extreme right and anti-abortion leaders to defund Planned Parenthood, and the current Administration has attempted to do so from multiple angles. Most notably, six months ago, the “defund” provision of the One Big Billionaires Act was enforced.
There were immediate harms because of this, and now, we’re beginning to see the sweeping impacts of clinic closures, canceled appointments, and the dramatic loss of health care coverage.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and others released a report with Planned Parenthood documenting 51 total health centers that have closed and striking reductions in care when comparing 2025 visits to the same period in the year prior.
They reported:
- 25% fewer breast exams
- 36% fewer IUD insertions
- 11% decline in STI testing
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20% fewer visits for birth control
- In fact, nearly 25,000 health center patients lost access to birth control.
This hasn’t impacted all Americans in the same way; 75% of clinic closures have been in “rural, medically underserved areas”. Looking at the U.S. as a whole, nearly half of all counties do not have a practicing OBGYN, so when a health center closes, access is entirely eliminated.
Patients in the report were overwhelmingly fearful about their ability to find new health care providers, stating, “Where am I going to go? You folks have helped me with things that nobody else [could have] helped me with… I want to keep seeing you.”
This law has harmed countless people across the country who were either delayed in accessing important care or were unable to access it at all.
Now, there’s a plan to make this law permanent, but we still have time to stop it. Planned Parenthood is encouraging people to call their members of Congress and urge them to OPPOSE efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, a critical access point for affordable health care, cancer screenings, STI testing, and birth control.
Everyone, no matter where we live or how much we earn, deserves the resources to make decisions about our own health and future.
Supply Drive
Orlando Period Product Drive 2026
Help ensure our community members have access to essential menstrual products.
Donations are accepted through March 25th, 2026.
Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Know Your Birth Options w/Central Florida Birth Network
Saturday, March 21st, 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
Move Well Chiropractic
950 South Winter Park Drive Suite 245 Casselberry, FL, 32707
Care Without Borders: Celebrating Community Wins w/Vitala
Tuesday, March 23rd at 2:00pm EST
Jazz for Repro Justice w/First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches
Sunday, March 22nd, 4:00pm – 6:00pm EST
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Learn to Use Deep Canvassing to Win for Sex Education w/EducateUS
Tuesday, March 24th, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Know Your Rights: Fighting Discrimination w/Trans Equality
Tuesday, March 24th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm EST
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Orlando Period-Kit Packing Party w/Planned Parenthood of Florida
Wednesday, March 25th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Orlando, FL (RSVP for Exact Location)
Later Abortion Care is Reproductive Liberation w/Repro TLC
Wednesday, March 25th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm EST
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Learning from Restricted States w/Abortion Academy
Thursday, March 26th at 3:00pm EST
Virtual Ed Series: Time for Your Teen w/Planned Parenthood
Thursday, March 26th at 6:00pm EST
Keynote Speaker for MCHSO 17th Annual Symposium
Friday, March 27th, 8:30am – 2:00pm EST
University of South Florida College of Public Health
Moore Museum Tour & Lunch w/Florida NOW
Saturday, March 28th at 9:45am
Moore Museum, Mims, FL
News Roundup
They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
By Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica
On the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2024, Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at University of Florida Health in downtown Jacksonville when a nurse came in with a bedsheet and told her to cover up.
Reproductive rights advocates say they ‘dodged a bullet’ this Session
By Jacob Ogles, Florida Politics
With the Republican-controlled Legislature concluding the Regular Session, at least one group is happy with how little was accomplished.
Halt sought in Florida abortion drugs lawsuit
By Jim Saunders, State Affairs
Federal health officials want a judge to halt a lawsuit that Florida and Texas filed last year challenging more than two decades of decisions allowing abortion drugs.
Mobile maternity clinics can help improve Florida health care
By Adetola F. Louis-Jacques, Arielle Ayotte and Michelle Nall, Tampa Bay Times
Only three of the 14 counties in north-central Florida provide full access to obstetric care.
Florida law allowing pregnant women to use disabled parking spaces faces backlash
By Dave Elias, WVZN Fort Myers
In Florida, a law passed last year allows pregnant women to use disabled parking spaces if they have a placard, but some disabled drivers are calling for its repeal unless it is medically necessary.
Memoir recounts a Florida mother’s journey through postpartum psychosis
By Rick Mayer and Matthew Peddie, Health News Florida
Days after the birth of her daughter, Pasco County writer Ayana Lage recalls hearing that loud voice.
National
Rhetoric versus reality: Facts about the abortion pill
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom
As telehealth access to abortion medication has grown in the years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-abortion groups and attorneys general from states with abortion bans are accelerating efforts to ban access to the medication, including by attempting to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval.
U.S Rep files bill to strip abortion pill of FDA approval
By Chris Young, WMNF Tampa Bay
Last week, a U.S. senator filed a bill to strip FDA approval from the abortion pill Mifepristone.
Trump administration launches investigation of states that mandate health insurance covers abortion
By Geoff Mulvihill and Ali Swenson, Associated Press
The Trump administration said Thursday that it has launched investigations into 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion.
Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches
By Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR
A group of 128 Democratic members of Congress is calling on the federal government to prevent a funding shortfall for reproductive health clinics in two weeks.
Contraception services dropped after ‘defunding’ provision hit clinics
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom
Visits for contraception and cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinics have dropped by double-digits after Congress passed a bill cutting off Medicaid funding to certain reproductive health care providers last year, according to a new Democratic congressional report.
A Georgia Hospital Turned Her In, Now She’s Charged With Murder
By Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung, Abortion, Every Day
A 31-year-old woman in Georgia has been charged with murder after allegedly taking abortion pills.
Unpopular abortion-homicide bills won’t fade, concerning reproductive rights advocates
By Sofia Resnick, Florida Phoenix
Republican lawmakers in several states so far this year introduced bills that would legally treat abortion as homicide.
Abortion bans led to higher preterm birth rates among Black women, study finds
By Nada Hassanein, States Newsroom
Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected in the absence of those bans, according to a study published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
How Blue States Got Around the GOP’s Efforts to Ban Abortion in Red States
By Nina Martin, Mother Jones
When Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced last month that she was planning to sue the governors of New York and California for refusing to extradite doctors accused of mailing abortion pills to her state, Gavin Newsom was unfazed.
Pregnancy Care Includes Abortion, Whether We Admit It or Not
By Jennifer Lincoln, Ms. Magazine
Here’s what I know as an OB-GYN: Any book about birth that ignores abortion access isn’t just incomplete—it’s dangerous.
The snip shift: March Madness used to drive vasectomies. Now abortion bans do.
By Shefali Luthra, The 19th
“Vas Madness.” “Vasectomy Vacation.” Urologists have used these terms for years to signal that when real men get snipped, they get to watch sports on the couch.
New research
Majority of Americans Continue to Say Abortion Should Be Legal in All or Most Cases
By Hannah Hartig, Andy Cerda and Asta Kallo, Pew Research Center
Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.