Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration over a provision in the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act that prevents the abortion provider from receiving Medicaid reimbursements from the government.

In a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Planned Parenthood claims that the provision is unconstitutional because it singles out the organization for cuts, according to a press release.

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“We’re suing the Trump Administration over this targeted attack on Planned Parenthood health centers and the patients who rely on them for care,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, said. “This case is about making sure that patients who use Medicaid as their insurance to get birth control, cancer screenings, and [sexually transmitted infection] testing and treatment can continue to do so at their local Planned Parenthood health center, and we will make that clear in court.”

The bill, which President Donald Trump signed on July 4, is considered a major win for Trump’s agenda and anti-abortion advocates.

Just three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — making the legalization of abortion up to the states — the bill now blocks federal funding for abortion providers that receive government reimbursements for non-abortion services.

The funding restriction of taxpayer dollars to organizations such as Planned Parenthood is temporary and will only last for one year.

According to a 2023 fiscal report from Planned Parenthood, more than $792 million of its funding was from government reimbursements and grants, roughly 44% of its operating yearly budget.

The complaint said enforcement of the provision would have “catastrophic” consequences for the 600 Planned Parenthood centers and could strip care for over 1 million of its annual patients.

“The true design of the Defund Provision is simply to express disapproval of, attack, and punish Planned Parenthood, which plays a particularly prominent role in the public debate over abortion,” Planned Parenthood said in the lawsuit.

Noah Brandt, the vice president of communications for Live Action, an anti-abortion group, told the Washington Examiner that he expects to see “appreciably less abortions by defunding Planned Parenthood.”

In 2024, Planned Parenthood performed 402,000 of the total 1 million abortions in the United States.

The suit was filed 11 days after the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote, enabled South Carolina to deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, saying the law did not authorize the group to sue.

This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has attempted to prohibit federal funding to Planned Parenthood. During Trump’s first term, House and Senate Republicans included a provision in the 2017 reconciliation bill to prohibit federal Medicaid dollars from going toward Planned Parenthood in a GOP bid to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. However, the whole reconciliation package was killed by a vote from the late Republican Sen. John McCain.

Efforts to prevent federal taxpayer dollars from going to abortion providers have been talked about since the late 1970s, but nothing passed until the 2025 reconciliation bill.

Monday’s lawsuit in Massachusetts seeks an injunction to block the government from denying Medicaid funds to “prohibited” entities such as Planned Parenthood, which received more than $800,000 in Medicaid funds in fiscal 2023.

Planned Parenthood stressed that if it gets “defunded,” 200 Planned Parenthood centers across 24 states are at risk of closure; 90% of those are in areas where abortion is legal and “medically underserved areas.”

In response, anti-abortion groups have spoken up, condemning the lawsuit.

“Planned Parenthood’s priority is abortion—not women’s health, not compassion, and certainly not life,” Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said. “This lawsuit is a desperate attempt to maintain their grip on public dollars. But the American people are watching—and they deserve better than being forced to fund abortion providers.”

“President Trump and pro-life leaders in Congress delivered a major victory for unborn children, their mothers, and for taxpayers,” Tobias said. “It’s shameful—but not surprising—that Planned Parenthood is turning to the courts to overturn the will of the people and protect their multimillion-dollar abortion enterprise.”

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Planned Parenthood said the law violates members’ constitutional rights to free association under the First Amendment and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.

The case is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc et al v Kennedy et al.