Arkansas providers seek to fill affordability gaps in maternal health care landscape

Arkansas providers seek to fill affordability gaps in maternal health care landscape

Planned Parenthood's Little Rock location on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. (Photo by Tess Vrbin/Arkansas Advocate) As federal law cuts off Medicaid funding to organizations that provide abortions, what’s already happened in the Natural State likely will be repeated nationwide. For seven years, low-income Arkansans who use Medicaid have been unable to have their health care covered at either of the state’s Planned Parenthood locations in Little Ro…