(The Center Square) – Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has resumed scheduling abortion procedures after stopping for a month, according to media reports.
The group stopped providing abortion services Oct. 1, citing Medicaid cuts in a federal funding bill.
“Providing compassionate, high-quality care to our patients has always been our mission – and it always will be,” Tanya Atkinson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said in a statement. “Our mission remains firm: to stand for patient care, equity, dignity and safety. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will never stop fighting to keep its doors open to as many patients as possible, period.”
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and 22 other state’s attorneys along with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit in July to challenge funding provisions in the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
The provisions stopped federal Medicaid funding for services at Planned Parenthood.
“This horrendous policy is not only an attack on Planned Parenthood. It’s also an attack on access to health care,” Kaul said in a statement about the lawsuit. “This reckless policy should be struck down.”
