A trio of Biden-appointed federal judges Wednesday posed tough questions over whether they should lift a lower court’s blockade on the Trump administration’s plans to withhold Medicaid reimbursements from Planned Parenthood affiliates for providing abortion care.
Argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the battle could affect abortion access. It revolves around whether a provision in the Republicans’ 2025 tax and spending law pausing Medicaid reimbursements to centers offering abortion care targets Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally.
Eric McArthur, a US Department of Justice attorney representing the Trump administration, told the judges that ...
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