BREAKING- Five Planned Parenthood of California locations close due to federal funding cuts

Five Planned Parenthood of California locations have permanently closed due to funding cuts from The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

Gilroy, Santa Cruz, Madera, San Mateo and South San Francisco are all locations that have shut down.

The bill prohibits Medicaid reimbursements for large nonprofit health clinics that provide abortions services and cut $300 million in funding from California.

"I don't agree with that whatsoever," Jay Ealy, a Salinas neighbor, said. "People should be able to make their own decision on what you know, with what's going on in their life."

Following a two-week temporary restraining order from Planned Parenthood, that blocked the implementation of the bill, a federal district court issued a partial preliminary injunction but only for some planned parenthood members.

All 114 California planned parenthood heath centers were not granted relief by this court order.

Chyna-Rae Duran, who lives in Salinas, said people can find the same same health care services at other doctor's offices that do not support abortions.

She said she does not support Planned Parenthood.

"It's just one big, you know, slaughterhouse for innocent babies," Chyna-Rae Duran, who lives Salinas, said. "You know a lot of women say 'my body, my choice'...What about the body that's inside your body?

The organization provides several healthcare services including birth control, STI testing and treatment, and cancer screenings. They also provide abortion services, gender-affirming care.

"I think it is really, really scary. I think oftentimes people think planned parenthood is just abortions and that's why they're completely against it...but it's the complete opposite," Gabriella Perez, a Soledad neighbor, said. "I really do believe a lot of lives are going to be put on the line if it gets completely defunded."

The California Central Coast branch provided services to just over 28,000 people in 2023/24. 

Brian Higgins, political director of Monterey County of Republicans, said that people opposing the bill are "fear-mongering" and that health care services will still be accessible in clinics that meet the requirements of no abortions. 

"We do care about women...50% of our republican members here in the community are women," Higgins said. "We're opposed to abortion and The Big Beautiful Bill provides money to other service providers to take care and provide these necessary services that women need."

Nearly 70% of Planned Parenthood patients, on the central coast, rely on Medicaid.

The reimbursements that were cut account for 60% of Planned Parenthood California Coast's annual revenue.

"Anti-abortion politicians have been unsuccessful at banning abortion nationwide, so they are trying to force planned parenthood to close our doors," Jenna Tosh, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast said in a statement. "But we will not back down, and we will not give up.”