Abortion Is Legal in Maine, but Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Gut Much of the State’s Reproductive Health Care Access
Sweeping cuts in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” targeting abortion providers threaten to drastically reduce access to a wide variety of sexual and reproductive health care services in Maine—even though the state has protected reproductive rights.
Two organizations—Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning—that serve roughly half of the patients in Maine’s entire sexual and reproductive health care network are at risk of being excluded from receiving Medicaid payments thanks to a provision in the tax and spending package, which narrowly passed the Senate on Tuesday and now faces a vote in the House. The provision would prohibit Medicaid funding for any health care services provided by Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning for one year.
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Medicaid is a state-federal program that provides health insurance coverage for more than 70 million people from low-income households across the country, including hundreds of thousands of..