‘They’re playing politics with people’s lives’: Trump’s big bill would slash Planned Parenthood’s Mass. budget in half

The legislation approved by the Senate and before the House would ban Medicaid payments to any health care nonprofit that offers abortions. Although not mentioned by name in the bill, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, sees the measure as a back-door way to defund the organization. Dr LuuIreland, the league’s chief medical officer, said about 40 percent of the 30,000 patients who receive services from Planned Parenthood each year are insured by MassHealth, the Medicaid program for the poor and people with disabilities in Massachusetts. The Planned Parenthood...