Judge rules Trump admin must fund Planned Parenthood

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the Trump administration to continue to reimburse Medicaid-funded services at Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood s Medicaid-supplied funding was slashed by a provision in President Donald Trump s tax cuts and spending package The organization sued the Trump administration earlier this month shortly after the bill was signed into law U S District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued an injunction on Monday indefinitely blocking the administration from carrying out the cuts In her order Talwani highlighted the present need for funding to provide for other essential services at the organization of clinics Patients are likely to suffer adverse physical condition consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable Talwani wrote In particular restricting Members ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs Related Inside conservative activist Leonard Leo s long campaign to gut Planned Parenthood It is illegal to use Medicaid to pay for the greater part abortions In their lawsuit Planned Parenthood explained that the cuts to all reimbursements were an end-around meant to shutter clinics that provide abortion and warned of devastating consequences nationwide if the cuts were allowed to take effect There is no legitimate justification for the statute rather the true design of the Defund Provision is purely to express disapproval of attack and punish Planned Parenthood which plays a particularly prominent role in the community debate over abortion the lawsuit reads Alexis McGill Johnson CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America praised the ruling and vowed to keep up the fight in a comment on Monday We will keep fighting this cruel law so that everyone can get birth control STI testing and healing cancer screenings and other critical medical care no matter their insurance she announced Read more about Trump vs Medicaid Trump hands over Medicaid input to ICE Rural hospitals will be hit hard by Trump s signature spending package Massive scheme to steal from working folks Senate passes Trump bill that will gut SNAP Medicaid The post Judge rules Trump admin must fund Planned Parenthood appeared first on Salon com