Miller-Meeks, Hinson, Nunn’s Support For Medicaid Cuts is Already Putting Iowa Women’s Health Care in Jeopardy

After Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson, and Zach Nunn voted for the GOP tax scam that slashes Medicaid funding, Planned Parenthood announced it will be closing over half its Iowa clinics “as the organization braces for the possible financial impact should the bill become law.”

Iowa women rely on Planned Parenthood clinics to provide birth control, prenatal and postnatal care, cancer screenings, lifesaving abortion care, and other reproductive health care services – all of which Miller-Meeks, Hinson, and Nunn are responsible for putting in jeopardy with their latest attack on women’s health care and reproductive rights.

DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Actions have consequences: Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson, and Zach Nunn voted to slash Medicaid funding, and now Iowa women will lose access to lifesaving health care. Miller-Meeks, Hinson, and Nunn are responsible for these clinic closures that jeopardize women’s health care, and Iowans will hold them accountable.”

KCCI: Iowa Planned Parenthood locations blame closures on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ advancement

• Planned Parenthood announced plans to close more than half of its Iowa facilities Friday, as a sweeping federal bill advances through the U.S. House.
• The legislation, the president refers to as “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” includes provisions barring Medicaid funds from being allocated to Planned Parenthood. Although the bill has not yet become law, its potential impacts are influencing the reproductive health providers to reconsider their future in two Midwest states.
• On Friday, Planned Parenthood North Central States revealed that eight facilities in the Midwest, including four in Iowa — Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, Urbandale, and Ames — will close. These closures come as the organization braces for the possible financial impact should the bill become law.
• The organization has stated that these closures are a preemptive measure to ensure that some facilities, such as those in Iowa City and Des Moines, can remain open.

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