Planned Parenthood Drops Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Medicaid Funding

Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest.

Little Rock

Four Arkansas women and an OB-GYN filed a lawsuit this week challenging the state’s near-total abortion ban. The case’s lead plaintiff, Emily Waldorf, was denied antibiotics and abortion care after her cervix dilated when she was 17 weeks pregnant. She was likely to develop an infection, so she was driven 240 miles by ambulance to receive miscarriage care in Kansas. The filing, which calls Arkansas’ bans “vague, confusing, and … extremely dangerous,” is one of at least four lawsuits filed by people denied care in their states.

Boston

Planned Parenthood is dropping its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the 2025 “big, beautiful bill” provision that prevented the reproductive health nonprofit from getting federal Medicaid funding. Planned Parenthood has said that nearly half its patients are insured through Medicaid, and 23 of its clinics closed as a result of the spending bill. The provision blocking Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide family planning services and abortion care is set to expire in early July.

Galveston, Texas

A Texas man wants a California doctor to pay him at least $75,000 for allegedly sending abortion pills to his ex-girlfriend, who used them to end two pregnancies. Jerry Rodriguez initially sued Dr. Remy Coeytaux in July under a Texas law against assisting in a self-managed abortion. He amended his suit this week to cite a new bounty hunter law, HB 7, which offers up to $100,000 to plaintiffs related to the fetus who sue abortion providers. This is the first time the law, which took effect in December, will be tested in court.

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