At the beginning of this month, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson said that the state would provide a financing of 11 million US dollars if the planned parenthood loses his complaint and support from the federal government. There are 30 clinics in the state that serve 10,000 patients each year. (Photo by Jake Goldstein-Straße/Washington State Standard)
Planned parenting members nationwide are once again protected against a “determined” provision adopted by the congress after a federal judge in Massachusetts had given an emergency application for a new injunction.
The chronological order The US district judge Indira Talwani, who was appointed by the former democratic president Barack Obama, comes a week after a first injunction has only blocked certain clinics from receiving Medicaid Fund according to the new law. One of the associated companies that filed the lawsuit that Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, together with connected companies that do not offer abortion services or Medicaid did not charge more than 800,000 US dollars in the 2023 financial year, were protected, which covered a fraction of the 600 clinics nationwide.
In the weeks since President Donald Trump was signed Massive budget reconciliation invoice HR 1 On July 4, the mere threat caused by cuts to clinics Close or restrict services in several states. Two clinics Close your doors In rural areas of Ohio two closed in the Houston area of TexasAnd Five closed in CaliforniaAccording to news reports. In California alone, the Medicaid cuts would lead to a loss of 300 million US dollars for the 114 clinics of the state who serve more than 1 million patients a year. After Calmatters.
In the state of Washington, where access to abortion is legally available and up to the life capacity of the fetus, Governor Bob Ferguson announced on July 9 that the state would state the lost federal financing of $ 11 million if the lawsuit is unsuccessful. In Washington there are 30 clinics for planned parenthood who serve 10,000 patients each year, and Medicaid covers about half of them. Washington State Standard reported.
The national group, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the first decision was disappointing and asked the Court to rethink what Talwani granted on Monday.
The lawyers of the Trump administration appealed against the first injunction on July 23 and informed the court that they had opposed the emergency application for a new injunction.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Partner in Massachusetts and Utah Only sued a few days After the congress had passed the legislative template, which included the provision that the organization directly on its services for the reduction of the financing of Medicaid-a long-term goal of lawyers against abortions and many republican chosen civil servants. Federal Medicaid dollars can only be used for abortion services, except in cases of rape, incest or certain health conditions.
The clinics rely heavily on Medicaid Finance in order to do too little or not at all, including the treatment of sexually transmitted infections, cancer examinations and contraception. Planned Parenthood provides services for around 2 million patients every year, and 64% of the clinics are in rural areas or places with a lack of lack of providers.
In the order, Talwani said that the legislative part of a comprehensive package of tax and expenditure cuts, which were approved by a party in-partying-is wrongly targeted the planned parenthood for punishment without legal proceedings and violate the constitutional rights against freedom of expression by preventing the organization to work for reproductive health care.
The lawyers of the US Ministry of Justice have argued that the congress is free to target these clinics because “larger providers carry out more abortions and receive more state subsidies”, and said that the law should “set federal subsidies for large abortions”. Talwani said these arguments were not convincing, and it is unlikely that they can justify the defundance as part of a goal to reduce abortion.
“… it is unclear how only units that are non-profit organizations and offer medical services in under-provisioned communities are related to the reduction in abortion. It is also not clear how the retention of members of planned parenthood who do not offer an abortion, the end of the medicaid refund,” wrote Talwani.
Dominique Lee, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, described the judgment as “strong memory that patients, not politics should lead to health care”.
Lee said in an explanation: “In Massachusetts and beyond, we will continue to fight to ensure that everyone can turn to the provider, to whom he trusts, regardless of their insurance or their postcode.”
