Less than a year after two of Utah’s Planned Parenthood clinics were forced to close because President Donald Trump’s administration withheld the state’s family planning services money, the White House has delivered that Title X funding.
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah announced Monday that it can resume free or discounted health care for low-income Utahns for now — although questions remain as to whether the organization will have access to federal Title X funds in the future.
The 2025 grant disbursed late last week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs totals $2 million — a decrease from the $2.8 million Utah received in 2024.
Utah was one of seven states to have all of its Title X funds blocked, according to an analysis by KFF Health News. The nonprofit Planned Parenthood Association of Utah is the only Title X recipient in the Beehive State.
Signed into law in 1970, the program is meant to empower low-income Americans to establish healthy families by connecting them to resources that allow them to plan when and how many children they have. It also covers disease prevention.
Since its inception, none of the money distributed through Title X has been allowed to pay for abortions.
“We are thrilled that Title X funding is restored to Utah for now, allowing more Utahns to get critical family planning services, such as birth control, cancer screenings and STI testing that they otherwise could not afford,” said the organization’s president and CEO Shireen Ghorbani in a statement.
“But we cannot ignore the fact that too many Utahns have already felt the devastating effects of the Trump administration’s unwarranted decision to withhold this funding for the last nine months,” she added.
The two closed clinics were in Logan and St. George — the furthest locations from Salt Lake City, and the ones most accessible to some of Utah’s most rural residents. They represented a quarter of the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics.
According to Ghorbani, approximately 26,000 Utahns rely on the program. While funding was frozen, those patients paid more for sexual and reproductive health care or had to forgo it altogether.
“While this funding is restored for now, there is no guarantee that it will continue. We do not know if we will receive the grant this year or ever again — or what other attacks on sexual and reproductive health this administration may impose," Ghorbani added.
The organization that has provided low-cost care to Utahns for the last half-century has also felt the impact of Congress blocking patients from using Medicaid at its clinics — a law it is challenging in court. And the Utah Legislature has also repeatedly sought to incapacitate Planned Parenthood, attempting to ban abortion clinics and barring it from teaching sexual education in schools.
Abortion remains legal up to 18 weeks in Utah, although a near-total ban is making its way through state courts. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for April.