What Next | How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Between the drastic budget cuts and provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration has found a way to drain Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health centers and cut off access to abortion services—as well as any other health care those clinics provided. Guests: Shefali Luthra, reproductive health reporter at The 19th, author of Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America. George Hill, President and CEO of Maine Family Planning. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's hear from the Chancellor Jeffrey.
0:02.3	From the Chancellor, Nigel.
0:04.0	Chancellor John Norman.
0:05.4	Kenneth.
0:05.9	Gordon.
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0:06.9	George.
0:07.3	Philip.
0:07.7	Sagi. Sagi. Rishi. Nadeem. Quasi Jeremy. And now, Rachel. Another year. Another budget. Over the past 40 years, we've seen it all. Our experts will continue to filter through the noise and uncertainty, helping you make the most of your tax allowances.
0:24.1	Hargreys Landsdowne. it all. Our experts will continue to filter through the noise and uncertainty, helping you make the
0:22.1	most of your tax allowances. Hargreys lands down, helping Britain invest through it all. Capital at
0:28.1	risk, tax rules applying can change. 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.
0:48.9	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 shut down in Marquette, Michigan. In September, the doors were locked in New Orleans.
0:56.7	And just earlier this month, a clinic that had operated for more than 30 years, stopped
1:01.7	taking patients in Manhattan. Nearly 70 clinics this year are gone. And we are seeing clinics,
1:10.7	scale back services, have layoffs, in some cases close,
1:14.3	and there's a real question, as you're working in these facilities, is that going to happen
1:18.7	to me?
1:19.3	Am I going to still have this job next year or the year after?
1:22.8	And if not, then what?
1:27.5	Shafali Luthorah has been covering these closures over at the 19th.
1:32.2	And while she says each facility has its own story, the thing these clinics share is a sudden
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