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A coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia filed suit Tuesday to block a new federal budget-law provision that would cut off Medicaid reimbursement for services provided at Planned Parenthood health centers. The states say the provision, enacted July 4, 2025, unlawfully targets a provider and threatens access to routine care for Medicaid patients.

The filing came the same day a federal judge in Massachusetts issued preliminary relief in a separate Planned Parenthood case challenging the same provision. The state complaint does not follow that order by a day; it is a separate lawsuit filed on July 29, 2025, in the same broader fight over whether Congress can use the budget law to bar Medicaid payments at Planned Parenthood clinics. ([mass.gov](https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-sues-trump-administration-for-blocking-planned-parenthood-from-receiving-medicaid-funding?utm_source=openai))

In the complaint, the states argue that the provision reaches far beyond abortion. They say it would block federal Medicaid money for contraception, cancer screenings, STI testing, wellness exams and other non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood sites. Planned Parenthood’s own lawsuit, filed July 7, makes the same basic point: federal Medicaid funds do not pay for abortion in the ordinary case, but the new law would still cut off reimbursement for other care delivered at those centers. ([mass.gov](https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-sues-trump-administration-for-blocking-planned-parenthood-from-receiving-medicaid-funding?utm_source=openai))

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said the law would strip access to care from low-income patients and force more costs onto state Medicaid programs. The Massachusetts release lists the coalition members as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania through Gov. Josh Shapiro in his official capacity, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, for a total of 23 states plus D.C. ([mass.gov](https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-sues-trump-administration-for-blocking-planned-parenthood-from-receiving-medicaid-funding?utm_source=openai))

The case now runs on parallel tracks: one brought by Planned Parenthood and one brought by the states. Both challenge the same defunding language and both ask courts to stop it from taking effect against clinics that provide preventive and reproductive health services to Medicaid patients. ([mass.gov](https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-sues-trump-administration-for-blocking-planned-parenthood-from-receiving-medicaid-funding?utm_source=openai))