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   One of Maine's largest abortion care providers is ending primary care   
   services on Friday after a court ruled that the Trump administration is   
   not required to restore Medicaid funding.   
      
   Maine Family Planning -- the largest network of sexual and reproductive   
   health care clinics in the state -- is ending primary care services at   
   three clinics in Ellsworth, Fulton and Presque Isle, affecting about 800   
   patients.   
      
   Under H.R.1 -- the mega-bill that President Donald Trump signed into law   
   over the summer -- family planning and abortion providers are not   
   allowed to collect Medicaid funding if they received at least $800,000   
   in Medicaid reimbursements in 2023.   
      
   Medicaid funds are not used to cover abortion costs in most   
   circumstances, according to Maine Family Planning.   
      
   The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) sued on behalf of Maine Family   
   Planning to restore the funds, but a judge ruled in August that, because   
   Roe v. Wade -- the constitutional right to an abortion -- was overruled,   
   Congress can "withhold federal funds and otherwise disassociate from   
   conduct that is not enshrined."   
      
   George Hill, president and CEO of Maine Family Planning, said it feels   
   like the network was targeted because it provides abortion care, despite   
   offering other family planning and reproductive health care services.   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/Health/maine-abortion-clinics-end-primary-care-ser   
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