An exam room inside the Planned Parenthood in Meridian, Idaho. It is the last Planned Parenthood in the state, following funding cuts during the first Trump administration and a near-total abortion ban enacted in 2022. (Photo by Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun)

First in a five-part series.

To some, the warning bells started sounding years ago.

When a Republican supermajority in the Texas legislature gutted the state’s family planning budget in 2011 and then in 2015 kicked Planned Parenthood — the country’s largest reproductive health care provider — out of its Medicaid family planning program, reproductive health advocates assumed they would one day see the same script unfold on the national stage. Other states followed with their own legislation to cut public funding to abortion-as

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