Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced approximately $140 million in grants to support Planned Parenthood health centers across California, allowing the healthcare non-profit to continue operating until the state finds additional resources next year.

The state’s action was in response to the Trump Administration’s defunding of all Planned Parenthood centers nationwide in the Big Beautiful Bill approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in July.

The state funding will “support these critical health care centers and access points to life-saving care and treatment for millions of Californians,” Newsom said in a statement. “California is a reproductive freedom state, and this latest investment continues to show our belief in protecting access to essential health care in times of distress. Trump’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood put all our communities at risk as people seek basic health care from these community providers.”

California’s Planned Parenthood affiliates operate more than 100 healthcare centers across the state, providing more than a million patient visits a year to Californians in search of basic health care needs, including abortion services, according to the governor’s office.

Newsom said that in 2026 he and legislative leaders intend to identify additional resources so Planned Parenthood health centers can continue to provide critical services to Californians. “California is committed to standing with Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California through ongoing political attacks by President Trump’s Administration and Republicans in Congress,” the governor said in a statement.

“The Planned Parenthood affiliates in California are grateful to Governor Newsom and our allies in the Legislature for taking this necessary step to keep Planned Parenthood health centers open and able to provide critical services as they weather the impacts of the federal defund,” said Jodi Hicks, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California.

“President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ targeted attacks on Planned Parenthood are not only unconscionable, but a deliberate effort to undermine California’s values and promise of reproductive freedom,” Hicks said in a statement. “Today’s funding commitment is critical to protecting vulnerable Californians' constitutional right to access reproductive health care. While we know Trump and Republicans’ attacks on reproductive health care are escalating, we remain confident that our state leaders will continue to stand with Planned Parenthood patients and providers and ensure they have the support necessary to endure these ongoing assaults.”

“California will always fight for women’s reproductive freedom with everything we’ve got,” said Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Hollister Democrat. “That’s why the Legislature delivered tens of millions of dollars this year to support health clinics, and we’re investing it now to protect Planned Parenthood, keep families healthy and save lives.”

“While President Trump and Republican leaders have launched a war on women and their rights, California is stepping up to ensure access to reproductive healthcare is here to stay,” said Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire. “This investment will provide women the safe access to abortion care and contraception, along with sexual and reproductive healthcare, that they need to thrive. Planned Parenthood has stood strong for millions across this country for decades—now it’s time for California to stand up for them.”

“In California, we have worked for years to protect a woman’s right to access comprehensive reproductive medical care by signing into law protections for care providers, increasing patients’ right to medical privacy, and expanding access to contraception," said Senate Pro Tem Elect Monique Limón.

“This investment is about more than dollars. It’s about keeping our promise to families and communities across our state who count on this essential care,” said Chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry.

In the years since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision overturning Roe v. Wade, California has taken multiple steps to protect reproductive rights, including:

• Safeguarding access to reproductive health care, allowing health care providers to prescribe abortion care medication to patients anonymously and helping to shield attorneys assisting other states with access to reproductive care from State Bar discipline.
• Expanding the authority of CalRx to purchase brand-name drugs. This change gives the state more tools to respond to supply chain disruptions, market manipulation, or politically motivated restrictions that could threaten access to essential medications — including medication used for abortion care.
• Allowing Arizona abortion providers to temporarily provide abortion care to patients from Arizona who travel to California for care following the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling to reimpose a regressive 1864 law imposing a near-total abortion ban in their state.
• Procuring an emergency stockpile of Misoprostol, a medication abortion drug, as legal challenges continued to move through the courts in an attempt to block abortion medication.
• Launching the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, a coalition of 23 Governors fighting together to protect and advance reproductive freedom.
• Proposition 1, an amendment to the state constitution approved by California voters that enshrined the right to reproductive freedom – including abortion care and contraception.
• Launching Abortion.CA.Gov to ensure people across California, and the country, can access essential information regarding reproductive health care, including resources available to support access to care.