We want to address some confusion that’s emerged in recent community conversations about Maine Family Planning’s services. We’re not closing. We’re not abandoning care. We’re here for Mainers, always. What’s Actually Changing and Why Effective October 31st, 2025, Maine Family Planning will discontinue primary care services at three of our locations: Houlton, Ellsworth, and Presque […]
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Augusta, ME – Due to a new federal law that bans many health providers who provide abortion care from billing Medicaid for reimbursement, Maine Family Planning (MFP) has informed its hundreds of primary care patients that it must close its primary care practice, effective October 31, 2025. Earlier this summer, Congress rescinded MFP’s Medicaid funding […]
Read MoreLD 143, which takes effect Sept. 24, combined with an appropriation from the state’s additional budget passed in June, LD 210, will provide $6 million in one-time funding to the state’s family planning care network (Portland, MAINE) — Family planning care providers in Maine this week are celebrating state-level funding bills taking effect against a […]
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Augusta, ME – The following is a statement from George Hill, President & CEO of Maine Family Planning: “The Administration’s dangerous decision to withhold Maine Family Planning’s Title X funds jeopardizes access to critical health care services for thousands of Mainers. Any delay in disbursement of federal grants will have a detrimental effect on our state […]
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Augusta, Maine –– Following the news that the United States Supreme Court reinstated a lower court ruling temporarily allowing abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho, as required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, Maine Family Planning President and CEO George A. Hill released the following statement: “It’s outrageous that access to medical treatment […]
Read MoreFamily Planning Advocates Held Day of Action to Call on Legislature to Fund Bill Investing in Maine’s Family Planning Network Augusta, Maine –– On Thursday, dozens of advocates from across the state gathered at the State House urging lawmakers to fund LD 1478, “An Act to Improve Women’s Health and Economic Security by Funding Family […]
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The case being heard before the Supreme Court this week has nothing to do with patient safety, as the anti-abortion groups that brought the lawsuit claim. Decades of research show that mifepristone is safe or safer than any other commonly used drugs, including penicillin and acetaminophen. It’s clear this attack is political in nature and […]
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Abortion, Birth Control, Reproductive Health
Eisenstadt v. Baird gave the legal right to contraception to everyone. But 52 years later, we still have to work to ensure everyone has the human right to bodily autonomy and the resources and freedom to control their sexual and reproductive lives.
Read MoreFamily Planning Advocates Held Day of Action to Call on Legislature to Fund Bill Investing in Maine’s Family Planning Network Augusta, Maine –– On Thursday, dozens of advocates from across the state gathered at the State House urging lawmakers to fund LD 1478, “An Act to Improve Women’s Health and Economic Security by Funding Family […]
Read MoreThis year marks the 30th anniversary of the Reproductive Justice movement –– a framework created by 12 Black women as a tool to imagine a more holistic, liberatory approach to reproductive health advocacy. In 1994, the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice (WADRJ) convened for the first time in Chicago to address how the […]
Read MoreAll of our locations remain open for sexual and reproductive health care. Three clinics (Houlton, Presque Isle, and Ellsworth) will end their primary care services on October 31st due to federal funding cuts, but those clinics remain open.
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