Groups Too Late to Join SCOTUS Abortion Rule Case, Feds Say (1)

The U.S. Supreme Court must deny requests by anti-abortion groups and 19 states to join a case testing a Trump administration rule that prohibits federally funded family planning providers from referring clients for abortion, the U.S. and the rule’s challengers said.

Acting U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Norris Cochran, the city of Baltimore, the American Medical Association, and 21 states stipulated to the dismissal of the three consolidated cases March 12, the parties told the nation’s high court. Under the court’s rules, the cases must be dismissed, they said.

The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, the Christian ...