Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio has closed its Cleveland Health Center on Euclid Avenue in the city’s Midtown section, blaming the loss of federal funds.
According to a statement from the organization, part of the reason for closure was that its Title X funds were frozen.
“Title X funding is federal funding for family planning services, especially for patients with low incomes and without insurance, and does not fund abortion services,” Erica Wilson-Domer, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, said in a statement to Ideastream. “This loss of funding is having direct, negative consequences. Without critical Title X funding, our communities will continue facing further challenges in accessing essential services like birth control, cancer screenings, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.”
“Closing the Cleveland Health Center was a decision not made lightly, as our patients and team members have supported this community for over a decade,” Wilson-Domer added. “We have personally reached out to each affected patient to help them transition their care to another PPGOH location or our Virtual Health Center, ensuring no interruption in their healthcare services.”
Cleveland Right to Life applauded the closure in a statement to Cleveland 19, thanking lawmakers for standing up “to the most-evil organization of our time, Planned Parenthood.”
“The closure of the Planned Parenthood facility on Euclid Avenue is a good start,” Fox 8 quoted Cleveland Right to Life as saying in a statement.
Officials with the Cleveland Department of Public Health said the agency is prepared to handle additional patients following the closure.
“No one should have to go without essential reproductive and preventive health services,” David Margolius, director of Public Health for the city of Cleveland, said in a release. “Our team is committed to making sure that everyone—regardless of income, zip code, or insurance status—has access to the health care they need.”
Separately, Wilson-Domer blasted lawmakers for their passed state budget, an amended version of House Bill 96.
“The state budget will cut health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of Ohioans and, through a new and invasive ‘abortion dashboard’ with zip code level data, require health care workers to report to the state government patients who have received abortion care,” Wilson-Domer said in a separate statement. “This is yet another move from Governor DeWine and Ohio Republicans that prioritizes politics over public health and egregiously infringes on the bodily autonomy and privacy of Ohioans.”
The loss of federal funding is not entirely unexpected. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump announced a freeze on millions in federal tax dollars for “reproductive care” via Title X.
Adding to Planned Parenthood’s woes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a pair of South Carolina Planned Parenthood clinics could not sue the state for excluding Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs. Additionally, the One Big Beautiful Bill that the U.S. Senate passed includes a provision to ban Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements nationwide, according to the report.
“The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that stops forced taxpayer funding of the abortion industry has been retained in the Senate bill, as we were confident it would, though for one year. This is a huge win,” Fox News Digital quoted Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America’s President, Marjorie Dannenfelser, as saying in a statement. “Taxpayers should never be forced to funnel their hard-earned dollars to Big Abortion. This funding currently hits almost $800 million annually.”
