Now that a freeze on Medicaid funding specifically targeted at Planned Parenthood locations and clinics who provide abortion has expired, Ohio’s facilities are working to bring back services they couldn’t afford during the yearlong funding pause. Though federal law already prohibits Medicaid dollars from being used for abortion services, clinics who also happen to provide those services were cut off from reimbursements for federal funds. When the federal spending bill that slashed that funding was signed, 40% of Southwest Ohio’s family planning patients were using Medicaid, according to Hemphill. Reproductive health clinics including Planned Parenthood are used to looking down the barrel of cuts and even funding elimination as a nationwide debate over reproductive rights continues. There has also been legislation introduced to keep clinics who provide abortion from receiving any Medicaid funding, even after the expiration of the previous cuts.