Ohio, Others Ask Sixth Circuit to Bar Biden Family Planning Rule

A Biden administration rule rolling back Trump-era requirements for abortion providers seeking federal money to fund family planning services must be blocked, Ohio and 11 other states told the Sixth Circuit.

The states are likely to win their argument that the Health and Human Services Department’s 2021 changes to rule implementing Title X are arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and not in accordance with law, they said in a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Title X is the only federal program funding family planning and gives millions of dollars each year to service ...