After more than 50 years of operation, the abortion giant has decided to close its Lakeland, Florida facility. According to a recent notice, the operation will cease services by appointment on March 6 and will completely close on March 13.
Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com notes that every Planned Parenthood makes abortion referrals and arranges sales of the abortion pill even if it does not kill babies on site. The organization is disproportionately closing non-abortion facilities to streamline operations around abortion sales, which now account for 76% of its network.
This most recent closure stems from a 2025 federal law that blocked Planned Parenthood funding via Medicaid to protect taxpayers from funding abortion. A provision in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," signed by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, defunded the organization and prohibited its centers from taking Medicaid patients.
In the wake of that bill, Ertelt tells AFN more than 50 abortion centers across the country closed their doors. So far this year, a facility in Missouri has closed as well.
The Lakeland closure affects six employees who have been offered positions at nearby abortion centers in Tampa, Orlando, and Kissimmee.
"What's happening is Planned Parenthood is trying to consolidate," Ertelt explains. "Losing hundreds of millions of dollars has been a big problem, and one of the ways that Planned Parenthood is responding to that loss of funds is by consolidating, by closing down, by trying to reduce overhead essentially."
Meanwhile, lives are being saved.
"It's good news for unborn children," the pro-lifer asserts. "It's good news for babies who won't be killed at these centers; it makes it more difficult for Planned Parenthood to push abortions on people, and hopefully, prayerfully, a lot of women are finding better pro-life alternatives as a result."
Ertelt points out that all of these centers could easily have stayed open had Planned Parenthood been willing to stop killing babies in abortions, but the company "chose ending the lives of children before birth over everything else."
