Sixth Circuit Partially Allows Family Planning Rule Rollback (2)

The US improperly revoked a 2019 Trump-era rule that prohibited taxpayer-funded programs from providing family planning services and abortion services at the same physical location, the Sixth Circuit said Thursday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ordered a lower court to halt the US Health and Human Services Department’s 2021 rollback of the rule requiring financial and physical separation of the services, saying it likely violates Title’s X’s prohibition on funding programs “where abortion is a method of family planning.”

The decision by Judge Joan L. Larsen likely is a loss for Title X grantees, who must ...