SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0California lawmakers on Monday approved a one-time infusion of $90 million for Planned Parenthood and other women\u2019s health clinics, a direct respond to the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to reproductive healthcare and access to abortion providers. <\/p>\n
\u201cTrump is tearing down healthcare and increasing costs,\u201d Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) said in a statement. \u201cDemocrats are building it up \u2014 investing millions in women\u2019s health and maternal care, because families come first in California.\u201d<\/p>\n
The legislation providing the funding, SB 106, carried by Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), is intended to help offset the losses from federal cuts that targeted abortion providers. The Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed last year by President Trump, prohibited federal Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood. <\/p>\n
The bill now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n
California and a coalition of other Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Trump administration last year over the provision. More than 80% of the nearly 1.3 million annual patient visits to Planned Parenthood in California previously were reimbursed by Medi-Cal, the state\u2019s version of Medicaid, which provides healthcare coverage to low-income Americans.<\/p>\n Assemblyman David Tangipa (R-Clovis) voiced opposition to the legislation Monday. <\/p>\n