When the Donald Trump-directed Congress defunded Planned Parenthood last year, critics warned that choking off federal Medicaid payments to the organization would do little to prevent abortion services, but instead deny everyday health care to hundreds of thousands of the nation’s most vulnerable patients.
About six months into the one-year funding shutoff, that is precisely what is happening. And while Planned Parenthood clinics are largely still standing and still providing reproductive care, there can be no doubt that H.R. 1 has done damage.
