If you plot them all out on a map, it's pretty remarkable to see all the different places where Planned Parenthood has closed up shop over the last few months.

In April, a clinic shut down in Marquette, Michigan.

In September, the doors were locked in New Orleans.

And just earlier this month, a clinic that had operated for more than 30 years

stopped taking patients in Manhattan.

Nearly 70 clinics this year are gone. And we are seeing clinics, scale back services,

have layoffs, in some cases close. And there's a real question, as you're working in these facilities,

is that going to happen to me? Am I going to still have this job next year or the year after? And if not,

then what?

Sheffali Luthera has been covering these closures over at the 19th.

And while she says each facility has its own story, the thing these clinics share is a sudden

loss of resources.

About a third of Planned Parenthood's funding comes from the federal government. In the spring, the Trump administration froze their family planning grants.

Then in July, the GOP reconciliation bill restricted who could get Medicaid funds. Some clinics

simply can't accept federal payment,

even if it's for the basics, pap smears, mammograms.

And it makes it harder and harder to stay open.

Is it the case that even if you're in a state that bans abortion, for instance,

say Louisiana, just being labeled

a Planned Parenthood means you're vulnerable, essentially, and you can't accept Medicaid because

your brand is associated with abortion?

Absolutely. That is why Planned Parenthood has been such a big target for a long time, even in states where maybe Planned Parenthood didn't provide abortion or abortion is illegal because it is still seen as this really important figure in the abortion movement.

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