Planned Parenthood of Michigan is crediting President Donald Trump with its decision to shutter four of its 14 abortion clinics in the Great Lakes State.

“The Trump administration and its anti-abortion allies have made clear their intention to defund Planned Parenthood and attack access to sexual and reproductive health care,” President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan Paula Thornton Greear said in a Thursday statement. “Our decision to restructure reflects months of strategic planning and careful financial analysis. These necessary changes strengthen PPMI’s ability to adapt quickly in a challenging political landscape.”

PPMI announced it will close its abortion clinics in Jackson, Petoskey, and Marquette on April 30 and consolidate two abortion centers in Ann Arbor by May 5, a move Right to Life of Michigan President Amber Roseboom described as “good news for women and families in our state.”

“Reckless policies Planned Parenthood has advocated, such as the elimination of health and safety regulations for clinics and the removal of informed consent for women seeking an abortion, have led to a dramatic decrease in care for women,” Roseboom said in a statement. “Today, women in Michigan are at higher risk of harm from abortion than in recent history, with a shocking 38% spike in serious complications from abortion.”

The statistic comes from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ 2023 Abortion Report, the last in a decades long tradition of tracking abortions in Michigan.

Michigan Democrats eliminated that reporting requirement along with the informed consent and safety regulations in a flurry of abortion bills signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2023.

Voters in November elected a Republican majority to the Michigan House, ending the state’s first Democratic government trifecta in four decades after just two years.

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The last abortion report showed the number in Michigan eclipsed 31,000 in 2023 for the first time since 1995, with the 31,241 induced abortions equating to 16.5 per 1,000 Michigan women of child bearing age. The national rate, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was 11.2 in 2022.

Michigan’s per capita figure represented the highest rate since 1989.

“While we can legally provide abortion care here in Michigan, the ability to really maintain affordable access across all services still depends heavily on programs like Title X and Medicaid,” Greear told Michigan Public on Friday.

Planned Parenthood’s decision to shutter clinics in Michigan followed an announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday the agency is temporarily freezing Title X payments to ensure compliance with Trump’s executive orders, according to Politico.

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Amy Margolis, deputy director of DHHS’ Office of Population Affairs, pointed to Planned Parenthood mission statements and other public documents that “paint a picture of Planned Parenthood that suggests it is engaged, across its affiliates, in widespread practices across hiring, operations, and patient treatment that unavoidably employ race in a negative manner.”

The letter also suggests the organization “overtly encourages illegal aliens to receive care,” Margolis wrote.

PPMI told Michigan the Public Title X funding freeze impacts about 16% of its annual budget, or about $5.4 million.

“The three health centers in the communities of Marquette, Petoskey and Jackson are our smallest health centers that saw the fewest number of patients,” PPMI Chief Medical Operating Officer Sarah Wallett said. “Those patients are important. Their healthcare is important. But operationally, because of their small size, [they] are the most difficult to operate.”

Roseboom noted much of Planned Parenthood’s funding is baked into federal allocations, and suggested its decision to close clinics in Michigan is more about the care and message it provides to patients.

“While Planned Parenthood continues to spout unfounded claims of financial woes, they are nestled in federal coffers, receiving 700 million taxpayer dollars in 2023 federal allocations alone,” she said. “The recent, promising announcement of Title X grant pauses from the Trump Administration did not affect any Planned Parenthoods in the state of Michigan.”

The clinic closures “demonstrate Planned Parenthoods inability to meet the needs of women, while they continue to advocate a radical political agenda and an abortion-only response to women facing unplanned pregnancies,” Rosebloom said. “While abortion is legal until the moment of birth in Michigan, women are increasingly interested in life-affirming options made possible by the good work of Michigan’s more than 100 pregnancy resource centers.”