--- title: Iowa Plans to Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood description: Find out why Iowa Republicans are planning to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. canonical: https://time.com/4660000/iowa-medicaid-funding-planned-parenthood/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T21:26:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:40.223Z og:title: Iowa Is Close to Cutting Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood og:description: ‘It’s a self-serving, misleading and dangerous political game’ og:url: https://time.com/4660000/iowa-medicaid-funding-planned-parenthood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609d6993d140bdec/6988b8c5bc6cfce2b23e00d3/planned-parenthood-trend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 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: Iowa Is Close to Cutting Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood twitter:description: ‘It’s a self-serving, misleading and dangerous political game’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609d6993d140bdec/6988b8c5bc6cfce2b23e00d3/planned-parenthood-trend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Iowa Is Close to Cutting Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood > Sponsored content. 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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 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 [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Feb 3, 2017 9:26 PM UTC The Iowa Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, voted on Thursday to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, [Reuters reported](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iowa-plannedparenthood-idUSKBN15H2ZS). The bill would replace Iowa’s [Medicaid family planning network waiver](http://kff.org/report-section/medicaid-and-family-planning-medicaid-family-planning-policy/) with a new family planning services plan run through the state, which would not provide funding to any organizations that perform or maintain facilities that perform abortions. Planned Parenthood, which is the state’s largest abortion provider, would lose funding if the legislation were to go into effect — even though the organization already can’t [allocate federal funding to abortions](http://motto.time.com/4646108/house-federal-funding-abortion/). The bill needs to pass the Republican-controlled House and get the approval of Governor Terry Branstad, who said he supports the bill, according to Reuters. “This change will allow Iowa to restrict government funding to family planning services away from organizations that perform abortions that are not medically necessary,” said State Senator Amy Sinclair, one of the bill’s sponsor, according to Reuters. Planned Parenthood criticized the measure, saying it would hurt prevent the low-income Iowans. “This bill does nothing to advance their extremist agenda to limit access to abortion. Instead, it blocks access to crucial family planning services for thousands of Iowans – the very services that most effectively prevent abortion,” Planned Parenthood of the Heartland said in a statement, according to Reuters. “It’s a self-serving, misleading and dangerous political game.” In December, Texas politicians said [they were finalizing a plan](http://motto.time.com/4609129/texas-defunding-planned-parenthood/) to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. And, House Speaker Paul Ryan [said last month](http://motto.time.com/4624230/planned-parenthood-federal-funding-obamacare-repeal/?iid=sr-link10) that Planned Parenthood would lose taxpayer money if the Republican party’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act is successful. \[[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iowa-plannedparenthood-idUSKBN15H2ZS)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4660000/iowa-medicaid-funding-planned-parenthood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4660000/iowa-medicaid-funding-planned-parenthood/"},"headline":"Iowa Is Close to Cutting Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood","datePublished":"2017-02-03T21:26:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:40.223Z","description":"‘It’s a self-serving, misleading and dangerous political game’","url":"https://time.com/4660000/iowa-medicaid-funding-planned-parenthood/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609d6993d140bdec/6988b8c5bc6cfce2b23e00d3/planned-parenthood-trend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609d6993d140bdec/6988b8c5bc6cfce2b23e00d3/planned-parenthood-trend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Planned Parenthood Locations As GOP Girds for Race To Repeal Obama's Final Rules Before Deadline","caption":"Planned Parenthood Locations As GOP Girds for Race To Repeal Obama's Final Rules Before Deadline","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4660000/iowa-medicaid-funding-planned-parenthood/","name":"Iowa Is Close to Cutting Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood"}}]}] ```