On May 22, 2025, Mike Collins of Georgia voted for the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 215 to 214 and would have barred Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for 10 years. On July 3, 2025 he voted for the final law, which kept a one-year ban; in that year Planned Parenthood said nearly 30 health centers closed. In January 2025 he cosponsored the Life at Conception Act (H.R. 722).
At an October 2026 debate, Collins said Georgia's six-week abortion law got it right. Under that law, Amber Thurman's death in Georgia was found preventable by the state's maternal mortality review committee.
Mike Collins's Votes and Positions on Abortion and Planned Parenthood
- Collins Voted for the Law That Cut Off Planned Parenthood's Medicaid Payments for a Year, in July 2025. On July 3, 2025, Mike Collins voted yes on final House passage of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 218 to 214. The law barred federal Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment, from July 4, 2025 until the ban lapsed in July 2026, when the Medicaid billing was allowed to resume. In that year, Planned Parenthood reported that nearly 30 health centers, which served roughly 41,000 birth control patients, have been forced to close, with Medicaid visits dropping by 25% or over 250,000 visits. The law's other Medicaid cuts, including work requirements starting in 2027, threaten to eliminate Medicaid coverage for 2.1 million women aged 19-49, the Guttmacher Institute found.
- Collins Cast One of the Votes That Passed a 10-Year Ban on Planned Parenthood Medicaid Payments Through the House, in May 2025. On May 22, 2025, Collins voted yes on the House version of H.R. 1, which passed 215 to 214 with one member voting present, so a switch by him alone would have defeated it. Its Section 44126 would have barred Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood and similar providers for care furnished during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. The Senate shortened the ban to one year in the final law, which Collins then voted for, and that year alone closed nearly 30 Planned Parenthood health centers, Planned Parenthood says.
- Collins Cosponsored the Life at Conception Act, Which Would Give Legal Personhood From Fertilization, in January 2025. On January 24, 2025, Collins was among the original cosponsors of H.R. 722, the Life at Conception Act (bill text: Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Collins, Mrs. Miller of Illinois). The bill declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being and defines a human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization. He had also been an original cosponsor of the 2023 version, H.R. 431, and posted that he was proud to support the Life at Conception Act on January 30, 2023. The bill is in committee. It would write into federal law a position most Americans reject: in a January 2026 Pew Research Center survey, 60% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
- Collins Said in October 2026 That Georgia's Six-Week Abortion Law Got It "Right". At the October 13, 2026 Senate debate, Collins said, "I also believe that the Georgia Legislature got it right", and that the law's exceptions allow for three exceptions with the heinous rapes or incest or in the life of the mother, PolitiFact reported. In 2022 he had said in a debate and on a candidate survey that he supported a total ban with “no exceptions.” In June 2023 he posted that the end of Roe v. Wade was "bringing us one step closer to ending abortion in America". Under Georgia's six-week law, Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old mother, died after she couldn’t access legal abortion care in Georgia; the state's maternal mortality review committee found that her death was preventable and said a delay in care had a “large” impact, ProPublica reported in September 2024. ProPublica also reported the death of Candi Miller, who had lupus, diabetes and hypertension and for whom Georgia’s new abortion ban gave her no choice, because its exceptions didn’t account for chronic conditions, even those known to present lethal risks later in pregnancy.
What the Planned Parenthood Cutoff and Georgia's Ban Mike Collins Supports Mean for Georgia
- Preventable deaths. Georgia's maternal mortality review committee found that her death was preventable, the first abortion-related death officially deemed preventable to come to public light, in the case of Amber Thurman, ProPublica reported.
- Births covered by Medicaid. In Georgia, 45% of all births are covered by Medicaid, the Georgia Recorder reported in September 2025, as St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia, in Collins's district, prepared to close its labor and delivery unit citing recent Congressional cuts to Medicaid among its reasons.
Frequently Asked Questions About Mike Collins on Abortion and reproductive health
What is Mike Collins's record on abortion and reproductive health under Trump?
Mike Collins of Georgia voted for the 2025 law that cut off Planned Parenthood's Medicaid payments for a year (roll call 190), after voting for a House version with a 10-year ban that passed by one vote. He cosponsored the Life at Conception Act in 2025, and in October 2026 he said Georgia's six-week abortion law got it right.
Did Mike Collins vote to defund Planned Parenthood?
Yes. Mike Collins voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which barred federal Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for one year starting July 4, 2025 (roll call 190), and for the House version that would have made the ban 10 years long. The ban has lapsed, but Planned Parenthood says its affiliates have closed nearly 30 of its roughly 600 clinics.
Does Mike Collins support a national abortion ban?
Mike Collins cosponsored the Life at Conception Act on January 24, 2025, a bill that would recognize a constitutional right to life at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, and he said in 2022 that he supported a total ban with "no exceptions".
What has Georgia's six-week abortion ban meant for women in Georgia?
Mike Collins said in October 2026 that the Georgia Legislature got it right with the six-week law. ProPublica reported that two Georgia women, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, died after the ban took effect; Thurman's death was found preventable by the state's review committee, and Miller's family said the ban gave her no choice but to avoid the hospital.
Last updated: 2026-10-25