Cambridge, MA, July 3, 2025 – Today, the US House of Representatives voted to pass the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill, which includes significant cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act funding, introduces work requirements for SNAP recipients, and slashes Biden-era clean energy tax credits. The bill will leave 11.8 million people without health insurance by 2034 and is projected to increase the federal deficit by at least $3.3 trillion. It also includes a provision targeted at “defunding” Planned Parenthood—putting 200 of their clinics at risk of closure—and will impact Maine Family Planning and potentially other abortion providers, limiting access to high quality care for more than one million people.
Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the following statement in response to the passage of this bill:
“I am both heartbroken for our communities and furious at the members of the House and Senate that voted for this budget reconciliation bill, giving their stamp of approval to policy measures that will strip away access to basic necessities like food and health care from millions of people in the United States. It is impossible to overstate the harm and devastation that this bill promises to deliver to people across the country, especially people working to make ends meet, immigrants, people living in rural areas, parents, and other communities that already face higher barriers to health care access due to a long history of systemic oppression and racism in the US health care and economic systems.
The bill also takes aim at Planned Parenthood and other rural family planning health clinics by prohibiting Medicaid beneficiaries from using their benefits at these clinics. This provision will decimate access to contraception, breast and cervical cancer screenings, STI testing, HIV treatment, gender-affirming care, and many other preventive care services, as well as abortion care, even in states where it is legal. Like all the provisions in this bill, these harms will be disproportionately borne by communities that already face higher barriers to reproductive health care access.
The passage of this bill comes at the heels of numerous harmful Supreme Court decisions that gave states permission to strip vulnerable communities of their rights and access to health care, and amidst ongoing attacks by the Trump Administration on the very institutions that drive innovation in medical treatments and health care, and uphold scientific rigor and advancement in this country.
As we continue to reckon with the impacts of these coordinated attacks on all of our rights and access to care, the work we do at Ibis has never been more urgent. We will continue to identify key strategies to increase access to health care—including abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care—both in the United States and across the globe. And we will continue to generate the data necessary to advance supportive policies in service to our vision of a world where everyone has the power and resources to have a healthy, safe, and pleasurable sexual and reproductive life.”