BATON ROUGE - Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health clinic that has constantly been at the center of controversy due to listing abortions as one of the services it provides, will cease its operations in Louisiana, according to NOLA.com. 

The nonprofit, which has operated in the state for more than 40 years, sent a letter to its staff Friday saying clinics in Louisiana would close on Sept. 30 due to lack of access to federal funding. 

Planned Parenthood's Louisiana clinics provide birth control, tests for sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screenings and other health care services. Over the past year, the organization provided care to more than 10,600 patients. They have never been licensed to provide abortions in the state, NOLA.com says. 

This is a major win for the pro-life movement here in Louisiana.

I have fought hard as Attorney General and now as Governor to rid our state of this failed organization.

Abortion should NEVER be considered healthcare. https://t.co/ImhzNKduln

— Governor Jeff Landry (@LAGovJeffLandry) August 5, 2025

Attorney General Liz Murrill said the the shutdown was "welcome news."

"Planned Parenthood built its business around promoting death. Louisiana choose life. We will always protect women and babies," she said in a statement. 

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast released its statement: 

“For 40 years, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) has delivered trusted, compassionate health care to people of all backgrounds, identities, and income levels across Louisiana. The care we’ve provided through extraordinary obstacles has changed and saved lives, and we are deeply proud of that legacy.

In a challenging landscape for all health care providers, and in spite of deep community support for our mission and services, coordinated and sustained political attacks and an increasingly hostile judiciary have blocked our ability to continue serving Louisianans. As a direct result of relentless political assaults, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast will close our two Louisiana health centers and wind down operations in the state on September 30, 2025.

This is not a decision we wanted to make; it is one we were forced into by political warfare. Anti-reproductive health lawmakers obsessed with power and control have spent decades fighting the concept that people deserve to control their own bodies. These extremists have done everything they can to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood, dismantle public health infrastructure, and block patients from the care they rely on. This cruelty and failed leadership are the reasons we are here today.

We are not the first Planned Parenthood affiliate to face this reality, and we will not be the last. As many as 200 health centers across the country are at risk of closure if the attempt to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood by the Trump administration and its backers in Congress is successful. Every health center closure, every patient who goes without care, every undetected cancer and untreated infection is on those lawmakers’ hands.

Our doors remain open until September 30, and patients can continue coming to PPGC for their care as all services, hours, and locations remain unchanged until then. We will do everything in our power to support Louisiana patients through this transition and connect them to care moving forward.”