Baton Rouge resident Brianna Spruel arrived for a routine check-up at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Government Street Tuesday morning.

She was dismayed to learn it was the organization’s last day of operation in the state of Louisiana.

“I’m kind of in shock,” Spruel said.

Planned Parenthood announced it would close its two Louisiana health centers, one in Baton Rouge and one in New Orleans, amid an ongoing legal battle between the national nonprofit and the Trump administration over Medicaid funding for abortion providers. In September, a federal appeals court allowed the “defunding provision” of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that targeted Planned Parenthood to take effect.

In more than 40 years of operation, Planned Parenthood health centers in Louisiana have never provided abo

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