Planned Parenthood sues the Trump administration over funding ban

CNN Planned Parenthood is suing the Trump administration over the big beautiful bill defunding its wellbeing care services arguing the provision will have devastating consequences across the country The bill passed late last week and signed into law by President Donald Trump on July will bar Medicaid users from coverage with a vitality care provider that also provides abortion services While the law does not explicitly mention Planned Parenthood the nationwide family planning and wellbeing care provider is in its crosshairs The law prohibits federal funding for providers primarily engaged in family planning services reproductive healthcare and related biological care that also provide abortion Planned Parenthood has warned that nearly clinics nationwide which also provide birth control STI testing and healing and cancer screening could close as a development of the bill s one-year ban on funds Ninety percent of those clinics Planned Parenthood says are in states where abortion is legal This incident is about making sure that patients who use Medicaid as their insurance to get birth control cancer screenings and STI testing and medicine can continue to do so at their local Planned Parenthood physical condition center and we will make that clear in court Alexis McGill Johnson president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America commented in a comment The bill originally barred funds for ten years before the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough reduced the measure to one year The lawsuit was filed by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts It has been assigned to Judge Indira Talwani an appointee of former President Barack Obama Anti-abortion advocates promptly railed against Planned Parenthood s suit Planned Parenthood s desperation is showing as they run to the courts again to fix a problem of their own making reported Susan B Anthony s Pro-Life America director of legal affairs and approach counsel Katie Daniel The suit lands as Planned Parenthood also battles the Trump administration in court over cuts to a federal teen pregnancy prevention project Lawyers for five Planned Parenthood networks argued in a federal District of Columbia court this June that administration s changes to the effort including limits on language around diversity and equity were vague and could bar Planned Parenthood from providing longtime services The-CNN-Wire Cable News Architecture Inc a Warner Bros Discovery Company All rights reserved Source