HOUSTON, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced Friday that it would be closing two locations this autumn, including its Prevention Park location, one of its largest and most notorious facilities in the western hemisphere.
The abortion giant announced July 25 that it would be closing its 78,000 square-foot, seven-storey Prevention Park outlet along with the Southwest abortion center on September 30. Its Northville, Northwest, Spring, and Stafford locations will remain open but be absorbed into Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, per a Houston Chronicle report. Planned Parenthood’s funding has been drastically cut, forcing locations across the country to close their doors.
Several pro-life activists celebrated the decision. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins called the news “massive” in an X post.
BREAKING: Planned Parenthood is closing their infamous Houston mega abortion facility, formerly the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere.
This is MASSIVE.
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) July 25, 2025
“This is massive news for the pro-life movement and shows the direction that Planned Parenthood is going, which is down,” said Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life, in an interview with Fox News Digital.
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Meanwhile, Melaney Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, lamented the facilities’ closure.
“Having to reduce [Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s] staffing and future footprint in Houston is heartbreaking, infuriating, and the direct result of […] sustained political attacks,” she said.
The Prevention Park abortuary, which has the square footage of roughly one and a half football fields, gained notoriety in 2015 when a Planned Parenthood official in that office admitted to an undercover reporter with the Center for Medical Progress that abortionists sometimes provide “intact” babies’ bodies for organ harvesting and experimentation. The video also showed graphic footage of pristine organs extracted from a 20-week-old aborted baby.
While Texas abortion centers haven’t been able to abort babies since the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban going back into effect, Planned Parenthood facilities across the Lone Star State have continued to provide women with contraceptives.
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Planned Parenthood locations across the country have been forced to shut down since the Trump administration began cutting its federal funding in January. Within weeks of returning to office, Trump proceeded to enforce the Hyde Amendment (which forbids most federal funds from directly supporting elective abortions), reinstated the Mexico City Policy (which forbids non-governmental organizations from using taxpayer dollars for elective abortions abroad), and cut millions in pro-abortion subsidies by freezing U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spending.
In March, the administration froze Title X “family planning” grants to nonprofits it said violated its executive orders on immigration and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including Planned Parenthood affiliates in nine states.
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Trump’s recent controversial “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (BBB) also includes a one-year ban on federal tax dollars going through Medicaid to any organization that commits abortions for reasons other than rape, incest, or supposed threats to the mother’s life.
