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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics suspend abortion services amid funding crisis

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The Madison South Health Center that is owned and operated by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, in Madison on 6 August 2012. Photograph: Kevin Wang/AP

Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin will stop providing abortions on Wednesday, as the organization’s centers across the country struggle to navigate the fallout of a law that blocks the the reproductive healthcare giant from receiving reimbursements from Medicaid.

Thanks to a provision in Donald Trump’s new tax and spending bill, abortion providers that receive more than $800,000 in reimbursements from Medicaid, the US government’s insurance program for low-income people, are blocked from participating in the program for one year. That provision is so narrowly tailored that it applies almost exclusively to Planned Parenthood, long a conservative target.

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