Judge Partially Extends Pause on Cuts to Planned Parenthood (1)

At least some Planned Parenthood affiliates are temporarily spared from Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration’s multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending law under a federal judge’s order Monday pausing enforcement of the provision while litigation plays out.

The national family planning provider is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the law’s one-year prohibition on Medicaid reimbursements to large reproductive health centers that offer abortion care unconstitutionally hurts members that don’t provide abortions, Judge Indira Talwani of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts wrote in her order partially granting Planned Parenthood’s motion for a preliminary ...