(Oregon Right to Life) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly released tens of millions of dollars in stalled Title X funding to Planned Parenthood state affiliates and other providers last month. The move does not relate to the full-scale defunding of hundreds of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood under the “Big Beautiful Bill” last summer, which remains in effect.
On Tuesday, Politico reported that the Trump administration’s HHS had “quietly released” tens of millions of dollars in Title X “family planning funds” last month, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to drop its lawsuit against the federal government.
Trump administration officials froze Title X payouts to over a dozen providers – including nine Planned Parenthood state affiliates – in March of last year pending investigations into their compliance with the administration’s policies surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
The funding pause has had a strong effect on the impacted Planned Parenthood locations.
Even with the December release of funds, the impact of nearly a year of withheld funding is likely to have permanent effects on the abortion facilities involved. Politico noted that “dozens of clinics have since shut down and are unlikely to reopen.”
Asked to weigh in on the issue, President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they were not aware of that decision to restore funding, The Hill reported.
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The reported release of the Title X funds does not relate to – and is dwarfed by – the broader defunding of Planned Parenthood at the federal level.
In July, the Republican-led U.S. Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which included a provision cutting taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood for a year. The move stripped hundreds of millions of dollars of funding from Planned Parenthood and has already led to the shuttering of many abortion facilities nationwide.
According to Planned Parenthood, nearly 50 abortion facilities have shut down since the beginning of 2025 due to the loss of Title X funds and Medicaid reimbursements. The group has estimated that the defunding will ultimately cause some 200 facilities to close their doors for good, mostly in states where abortion is presently legal.
Pro-abortion lawmakers in numerous states – including Oregon – have responded to the federal defunding by moving to allocate state dollars to support Planned Parenthood. According to The Lund Report, the federal defunding has forced Oregon affiliates to “dip into their savings.”
On November 18, the Oregon legislature’s Emergency Board approved a $7.5 million appropriation of emergency state funding to buoy Oregon’s Planned Parenthood facilities in the wake of the federal cuts. The funding decision – which was met with strong pushback by pro-life Oregon lawmakers – comes in addition to $10 million already granted during the 2025 legislative session (HB 5025).
Ahead of the February 2 start of the 2026 legislative session in Oregon, lawmakers are eying an additional allocation to further backfill funding to Planned Parenthood.
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Proponents of Planned Parenthood funding often argue that the facilities provide only a small number of abortions and are primarily focused on providing needed non-abortion services to women, especially those in lower-income brackets. However, the data indicate that Planned Parenthood is first and foremost an abortion business.
Planned Parenthood does not offer mammograms, provides an estimated 1% of the nation’s pap tests, and performs less than 2% of the nation’s HPV tests, while routinely performing an outsized percentage of abortions. In 2022-2023, Planned Parenthood facilities performed a record 402,230 abortions, approximately 40% of all abortions nationwide. Abortions make up over 95% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy resolution services across the country, according to the organization’s annual reports.
Meanwhile, the non-abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood facilities are already available at other clinics throughout the state. For example, breast and cervical cancer screening and STI testing are available at many clinics across the nation, including for Americans using Medicaid.
