(LifeSiteNews) — Nearly 60 Planned Parenthood facilities have shut down since January 2025, according to the pro-abortion Kaiser Family Foundation. While President Donald Trump has not embraced federal protections for all preborn babies, the report suggests his policies have played a role in at least reducing the number of Planned Parenthood locations across the country.

“In the spring of 2025, the federal Title X family planning program withheld grant payments to 144 Planned Parenthood sites in 20 states,” the June 8 report stated.

The report also cites the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Supreme Court decision in June 2025 that affirmed states can exclude vendors from their state Medicaid health insurance program.

Furthermore, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s temporary one-year defunding of some abortion vendors also helped shut down the facilities. This funding freeze expires July 4 unless Congress extends the defunding.

In total, 57 Planned Parenthood facilities have shut down in the past 18 months or so, the report concluded.

While the report repeats the same talking points about how Planned Parenthood offers pap smears, STD testing, and breast exams, it also acknowledges a vast majority of women do not even visit the abortion giant for those other health services.

“Nationally, one-in-10 (10%) reproductive age women covered by Medicaid who received family planning services got their care at a Planned Parenthood clinic, which is similar to the 11% in 2021,” the report states.

The closures track with data from the pro-life American Life League. The group’s national director said more can be done to keep shutting down Planned Parenthood facilities.

“According to our research, there were 51 permanent closures in 2025, and there have been six so far in 2026,” Katie Xavios told LifeSiteNews via email. “We have tracked these closures across 20 states.”

Xavios also affirmed that Planned Parenthood is not an important part of the nation’s health infrastructure, telling LifeSiteNews “the abortion giant has been on the decline for years, consistently closing more and more facilities every single year.”

“It is first and foremost an abortion provider, and similarly, no one needs abortion,” she said. “Women who find themselves pregnant need compassionate care and real options that affirm that there are two patients, not one. PP is incapable of doing that.”

American Life League wants to see the defunding extended, saying that “our fear is that when its funding kicks back in, we will see some of those facilities reopen.”

“Defunding Planned Parenthood at the federal and state levels would ensure that it continues to shutter more and more facilities,” Xavios concluded.

Pro-life leaders continue to seek defunding of Planned Parenthood

With the deadline to extend the cuts just weeks away, pro-life groups continue to press for the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

“Through our letter and conversations with leaders on Capitol Hill, we hope to spur Republican lawmakers to do everything within their power to once again defund Planned Parenthood and abortion businesses from our Medicaid dollars,” Kelsey Pritchard with SBA Pro-Life America (formerly Susan B. Anthony List) told The Center Square.

Students for Life Action similarly backed calls for defunding Planned Parenthood, arguing that it would also help Republicans in the midterm elections.

“Students for Life Action asks that the GOP prioritize finishing what they started one year ago, to cut Planned Parenthood & Big Abortion from Medicaid spending for a period of 10 years,” president Kristan Hawkins wrote in a June 4 letter.