Family Planning Rule Hearing Focuses on Abortion Services Divide

Oct. 27, 2022, 4:29 PM UTC

A Sixth Circuit panel Thursday appeared split on whether to block a Biden administration rule that allows providers who refer patients for abortions to apply for federal family planning funds.

A group of Republican attorneys general sued to stop implementation of the Health and Human Services Department rule, which restored funding eligibility for Title X program participants that had been shut out by the Trump-era’s so-called gag rule and physical and financial separation requirements. Title X is the only federal program that supplies money for family planning services.

Judge Karen Nelson Moore, of the US Court of Appeals for the ...

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