--- title: Planned Parenthood: Bill Would Lead to More Unplanned Births description: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that thousands on Medicaid would end up having children they would not otherwise have had. canonical: https://time.com/4700198/planned-parenthood-funding-medicaid-spending/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-13T21:16:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:49:21.219Z article:section: Politics og:title: Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding Would Lead to More Unplanned Births og:description: As poor, rural women lose access to services. og:url: https://time.com/4700198/planned-parenthood-funding-medicaid-spending/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae9378601841960f/6988bb5697cdffeff36af8ed/planned-parenthood-texas-funding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5760 og:image:height: 3240 og:image:alt: Planned Parenthood Locations As GOP Girds for Race To Repeal Obama's Final Rules Before Deadline og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding Would Lead to More Unplanned Births twitter:description: As poor, rural women lose access to services. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae9378601841960f/6988bb5697cdffeff36af8ed/planned-parenthood-texas-funding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding Would Lead to More Unplanned Births, Report Says > Sponsored content. 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Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Signage is displayed outside a Planned Parenthood office in Peoria, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016\. Republicans are thinking ahead to regulations Obama might still try to complete before he leaves office, including a pending rule barring states from blocking funds to Planned Parenthood. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Mar 13, 2017 9:16 PM UTC The Congressional Budget Office [estimates](http://time.com/4700051/obamacare-repeal-cbo-congressional-budget-office-analysis/) that thousands of women on Medicaid would end up having children they would not otherwise have had if Planned Parenthood funding is cut. In [a long-awaited analysis](http://time.com/4699506/obamacare-repeal-cbo-score-congressional-budget-office/) of the [Republican health care bill](http://time.com/4699375/gop-health-care-bill-faces-a-key-test/), the CBO found that low-income Americans living in areas with no access to other clinics would lose access to “services that help women avert pregnancies” if federal funding for Planned Parenthood were cut. The CBO estimates that about 15 percent of people in that situation would lose access—to both birth control and abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood, although the report does not spell that out—leading to “several thousand” more unplanned births to women who are on Medicaid. “To the extent that there would be reductions in access to care under the legislation, they would affect services that help women avert pregnancies,” [the CBO report notes](http://static.politico.com/eb/9c/e933fe474128a624d2a46157a7ef/cbo-report-ahca.pdf). “The people most likely to experience reduced access to care would probably reside in areas without other health care clinics or medical practitioners who serve low-income populations.” That would lead to a projected $21 million more direct spending on Medicaid for pregnancies and births in 2017, offsetting the $178 million savings from not funding Planned Parenthood that year, the CBO found. Over the 10-year budget window, that would add up to $77 million more in Medicaid spending on pregnancies, offsetting $234 million in money not spent on Planned Parenthood. Conservatives have called for the health care bill to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, but moderate Republican Sens. 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