Indiana’s Planned Parenthood affiliate remains cut off from state Medicaid funding even with the expiration of a federal ban on such payments to abortion providers for any health-care services.

The nationwide funding ban that Republicans included in last year’s “big, beautiful” law expired July 4, 2026. That leaves states to determine whether Planned Parenthood can receive payment from the program for low-income individuals for non-abortion care.

Indiana officials, however, are seeking federal court approval to enforce a 2011 state law that prohibits any state funding to abortion-providing organizations.

Federal courts blocked that law from taking effect and Planned Parenthood continued receiving Indiana Medicaid payments for more than a decade before the federal ban was imposed last summer.

But recent court filings say Planned Parenthood has agreed to “remain suspended from Indiana’s Medicaid program” while awaiting a decision from the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jennifer Allen, CEO of Planned Parenthood Alliance........

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