Maine to give $6M to Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning

Last week, Maine announced it will give abortion businesses Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning $6 million in taxpayer funding following the enactment of two pro-abortion bills earlier in 2025. Maine Family Planning is claiming the influx of money won't matter and said it may do away with all of its primary care services while continuing abortions.

Key Takeaways:

• Maine announced it will give Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and Maine Family Planning $6 million in a one-time funding effort.

• The decision came after an appeals court ruled this month that the federal government can remove Medicaid funding from abortion businesses for a period of one year under President Trump's spending policy bill, dubbed the Big Beautiful Bill.

• Maine Family Planning said that despite the new money promised by the state, it may still end its primary care services while keeping its family planning services (abortion) in operation.

The Details:

Following the passage of President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' Maine announced it will give $6 million in taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) and Maine Family Planning. The budget bill included a provision to end federal Medicaid funding for one year for “prohibited entit[ies]” which are defined as entities committing abortions...

... other than an abortion if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would… place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.

That provision was blocked until this month.

In response, Maine lawmakers passed LD 143 and LD 210 to fund businesses that commit abortion. LD 210 designates $6 million in state taxpayer funding for family planning services through June 2027, including contraception and STI testing. Although proponents of the bill argue that the money is not to be used for abortion, money is fungible, and any money given to an abortion business will either directly or indirectly support the abortion side of the business.

"The real value of state leadership in this moment can't be overstated," Lisa Margulies of PPNNE said. "Maine remains a safe harbor in the midst of a national storm. We've come a long way in terms of stabilizing our healthcare operations in the face of these challenges and yet the real attempt here is to shut down access to care in states that abortion remains legal."

Maine Family Planning's director of advocacy and community engagement, Olivia Pennington, said the funding came too late, and it may stop offering primary care services at the end of October. The federal government's defunding did not proceed until this month, following an appeals court ruling.

The Bottom Line:

When abortion businesses have a choice between providing non-abortion services while receiving government funding or providing abortion services while losing government funding, they always choose the latter, sacrificing legitimate health care on the altar of abortion. Look no further than Planned Parenthood, which chose to walk away from tens of millions in taxpayer funding when Trump forced abortion businesses to separate their abortion services from other services both fiscally and physically (to avoid fungibility) during his first term.

Following suit, if Maine Family Planning does end its primary care services, it plans to continue to offer STD and STI testing, birth control, and abortion at all 18 of its locations, according to reports.