America's largest abortion provider just opened a Botox and filler counter inside a Sacramento clinic.
Congress had just cut off its Medicaid money, and executives needed a new way to keep the lights on.
Now the same organization funded for decades by federal tax dollars is asking women to pay out of pocket for wrinkles.
Botox, Fillers, and Vein Treatments Are Now On the Menu at Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte is the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the country, covering Northern California, the Central Valley, and all of Nevada.
In March 2026, its Sacramento clinic quietly became the first Planned Parenthood location in America to sell cosmetic treatments.
Botox, other neurotoxin injections, dermal fillers, laser hair removal, IV hydration bags, and spider and varicose vein treatment are all now for sale inside that same building.
Botox runs nine dollars a unit, undercutting the private medspa down the street.
IV hydration bags go for a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars apiece.
More than thirty staff members are already training to add these procedures to their own client rosters.
Aesthetics Program Manager Samantha Pohlman runs the appointments herself.
Medical officer Dr. Laura Dalton says the pivot was her idea, and she frames it as accessible care for an underserved population.
CEO Stacy Cross put it more bluntly.
"We'll never fill this $100 million gap," Cross admitted. "We have to do everything we can."
How the One Big Beautiful Bill Already Cost Planned Parenthood a Hundred Million Dollars in Medicaid Money
President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, and it did something no piece of federal legislation had managed before.
For one full year, from July 2025 to July 2026, it blocked Medicaid from sending federal dollars to any tax-exempt abortion provider that had received more than eight hundred thousand dollars in Medicaid money the year before.
The bill named Planned Parenthood specifically, along with its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, and clinics, so nobody had to guess which corner of the abortion industry Congress was aiming at.
Lawmakers set the qualifying threshold low enough, and defined "affiliate" broadly enough, that almost no other clinic network in the country could ever meet the same definition.
Dalton insists the money the law cut off was never abortion money at all, pointing instead to breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, and STI testing.
That framing does not change where the Medicaid checks used to be made out to.
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte closed five health centers and eliminated its primary care and prenatal programs while the law was in effect.
Roughly one in seven staff members lost their jobs.
The provision expired on schedule in July 2026, and the Medicaid checks started arriving again, but the aesthetics counter never closed.
Marsha Blackburn Wants the IRS to Look At Planned Parenthood's Tax-Exempt Status Too
California had already tried to solve this with cash.
In February, pro-abortion Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on ninety million taxpayer dollars in emergency funding to keep Planned Parenthood's doors open in California, calling the federal cuts "attacks on women's health."
Weeks later, Planned Parenthood opened the Botox counter anyway.
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn was not satisfied with what that counter turned out to be.
She sent a letter asking the IRS to examine whether Planned Parenthood's beauty business abuses its tax-exempt status, calling it an organization "appealing to the women's beauty market" on the taxpayer's dime.
Blackburn argues the cosmetic revenue has to be walled off from any federally subsidized activity, and she wants regulators to check whether that wall actually exists.
So the ledger now reads like this: Congress cut the checks, California taxpayers covered ninety million dollars of the gap, and Planned Parenthood still needed a Botox counter to make ends meet.
Pregnancy centers across the country served more than a million women in 2024 and delivered upward of $452 million in free medical care, counseling, and material goods combined, without a single taxpayer bailout behind any of it.
Newsom's ninety million dollars alone could have funded more than five hundred of those centers for an entire year.
Instead, it went to an abortion provider that needed a spa on top of it.
The real scoreboard conservatives should be watching is not the bailout or the Botox receipts.
It is whether Congress makes that one-year cutoff permanent the next time lawmakers get the chance.
Sources:
- Ashley Sharp, "Injecting New Revenue: Planned Parenthood Turns to Botox to Fill Funding Gap," CBS Sacramento, September 18, 2026.
- Steven Ertelt, "Planned Parenthood Starts Doing Botox Injections to Make More Money," LifeNews.com, March 2, 2026.
- Senator Marsha Blackburn, "Blackburn Sounds the Alarm on Planned Parenthood Offering Cosmetic Injections and Procedures as a Tax-Exempt Organization," blackburn.senate.gov, April 3, 2026.
- "H.R. 1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act," U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Rules, rules.house.gov.
- Charlotte Lozier Institute, "Pregnancy Centers Provided Over $452 Million in Services and Goods to Families," lozierinstitute.org, 2025.
