Planned Parenthood closed 5 California clinics after Medicaid cuts, ending key services and impacting over 22,000 mostly Medi-Cal patients.

More than two dozen Planned Parenthood facilities are shutting down after new federal rules prevent the organization from being reimbursed by Medicaid and Medicare.

It’s a really devastating, horrific consequence that’s directly linked to the Trump administration,” Planned Parenthood told The Bee.

A Republican bill that temporarily restricts Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood will affect about one third of patients at its only West Virginia clinic, according to officials with the organization.

This administration is coming after Planned Parenthood, regardless of what kind of solutions that are tried to attempt the bill is doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is punishing people who rely on Medicaid.

As the Trump administration advances an effort to gut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles-area elected officials rallied Monday in defense of the organization that provides sexual and reproductive health care for more than 1.

Los Angeles County leaders are set to hold a press conference Monday morning to “sound the alarm” on what they say could be a public health crisis as a result of defunding Planned Parenthood.