Author: Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News
Updated: Wed, May 13, 2026
Lansing — Planned Parenthood of Michigan is asking Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to use her executive authority to provide a one-time $5 million allocation to its health centers amid a federal funding crunch.
Because of an influx of changes to Medicaid and Title X dollars, the abortion provider is “facing a critical funding gap that we cannot bridge alone,” Planned Parenthood said in an open letter set to be delivered Wednesday to the governor, a longtime political ally in the reproductive rights movement.
The funding gap could result in the closure of women’s health clinics, causing an “irreversible loss of reproductive health infrastructure,” said Paula Thornton Greear, president and CEO for Planned Parenthood of Michigan and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan…