Michigan abortion clinics drop 12% over two years
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The number of clinics in Michigan providing abortions fell 12% over a nearly two-year period ending in December, according to a recently released Guttmacher Institute report.
Why it matters: The Trump administration's withholding of Title X family planning funding for Planned Parenthood and other health care providers likely contributed to the decline, per the report.
State of play: Last April, Planned Parenthood of Michigan (PPMI) announced it would close three health centers in Jackson, Petoskey and Marquette, consolidate its Ann Arbor operations and cut staff by 10 percent — while bulking up its virtual services.
- Trump's moves to restrict access to care dealt "a devastating financial blow to health care providers like PPMI," Planned Parenthood said in a press release at the time.
Planned Parenthood continues to face larger federal cuts, but per Politico, Title X funds were later restored.
- PPMI didn't respond to Axios' request for comment about the state of care in Michigan.
The latest: In Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's final State of the State address, she noted her administration's and partners' efforts to protect "fundamental freedoms for all," including making abortion a constitutional right.
The other side: Michigan also maintains a thriving anti-abortion movement. Proposed legislation dubbed "common sense" by a Right to Life of Michigan leader is making its way through the state Legislature, per Michigan Advance.
- It would require abortion providers to report details on each abortion, as well as some demographics and medical history of recipients.
- The package of bills would face a challenge getting through Whitmer.
Zoom out: Nationally, federal funding challenges and new abortion restrictions reduced the number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics during the period studied by Guttmacher, March 2024 to December 2025.
Context: Online-only clinics have become crucial to maintaining abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. Telehealth-prescribed medication abortion is becoming more prevalent.
- But in-person clinics still accounted for 80% of abortions in the first half of 2025, in the 37 states that don't have total abortion bans, Guttmacher found.
- Across the country, the number of clinics fell 2%. It's a small figure, though Guttmacher notes that it masks churn and uncertainty, with clinics across states opening, closing, pausing and resuming operations.