Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin said on Thursday that it will cease scheduling abortions on Oct. 1, as it braces for funding cuts signed into law as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act in July.
That legislation strips Medicaid funding from any healthcare provider that receives more than $800,000 in federal dollars, and also performs abortions.
The law originally cut funding from such organizations for the next 10 years; it was reduced to one year after the Senate Parliamentarian threatened to hold up the legislation.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts blocked that provision of the law on July 28, saying that it unlawfully targeted Planned Parenthood, but the ruling was later temporarily overturned by an appeals court….