Appeals Court Quietly Lifts Injunctions On Trump’s Plans To Defund Planned Parenthood:
The Trump administration can effectively end the flow of millions of taxpayer dollars to the abortion giant for one year.
The Trump administration will move forward with its plans to defund Planned Parenthood after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted two preliminary injunctions that aimed to hamper the tax dollar withdrawal.
Republicans in Congress first moved to defund Planned Parenthood earlier this year via a provision in the Big Beautiful Bill. Shortly after a tiebreaker vote sent the legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law in July, Planned Parenthood sued the administration. The abortion giant claimed the cessation of federal funding was “unlawful” and would put nearly 200 Planned Parenthood facilities at risk of closure.
On July 21, a district court, led by a Democrat-nominated federal judge, demanded that the administration halt from “enforcing, retroactively enforcing, or otherwise applying” the policy designed to strip Planned Parenthood’s stream of taxpayer dollars for one year. The court also ordered the administration to “take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and time frames to Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and other Planned Parenthood Federation of America [m]embers.”
In a second preliminary injunction issued less than a week later on July 28, the district court expanded the order beyond Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. to include Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, and “all other members” of the abortion giant’s network.
The court order, posted on Thursday, however, declared that Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had adequately demonstrated their “entitlement to a stay” and need not heed the injunctions any longer. --->READ MORE HERE
Appeals panel allows Trump admin to strip Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood:
A federal appeals court Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to enforce a provision of the new tax cut and spending law that will cut off Medicaid funding from some Planned Parenthood clinics.
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold a preliminary nationwide injunction issued in July by a lower-court judge that blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to all Planned Parenthood affiliates.
The lawsuit contests a provision in the new law that imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to health care nonprofits that also offer abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023.
Taxpayer money is already prohibited from covering most abortions.
Instead, the law cuts reimbursement for other health services provided by Planned Parenthood and other health centers, such as cancer screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
Although Planned Parenthood is not specifically named in the statute, which went into effect July 4, Planned Parenthood leaders said their organization was deliberately targeted. But at least one major family provider in Maine said they will also be impacted and sued the administration.
In the lower court’s ruling, Judge Indira Talwani wrote the law likely violates the Constitution’s “bill of attainder clause,” which prohibits Congress and state legislatures from imposing punishments on individuals or specific entities without trial. --->READ MORE HERE
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