Trump administration sued over family-planning program shift

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Two organizations that support birth control filed lawsuits on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from shifting a federal family-planning grant program toward prioritizing groups that are faith-based and counsel abstinence.

The lawsuits were filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. by Planned Parenthood and the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association and target guidelines the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued in February.

Those guidelines set forth new criteria for how the department under Republican President Donald Trump would assess applications for grants under the Title X family planning program. The grants are expected to total $260 million.

Planned Parenthood, whose health centers serve more than 40 percent of patients receiving care subsidized by Title X, in its lawsuit contended that the changes violate the law that created the program and were “arbitrary and capricious.”

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POLITICS MAY 2, 2018 / 12:28 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Nate Raymond
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-birthcontrol/trump-administration-sued-over-family-planning-program-shift-idUSKBN1I32BU

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1. No Republican ever supports birth control.

Unless of course it's for their mistress.

[OhNo-Really]

2. Pence-ive Policy

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3. All these law suits and counter suits during this administration

Are there enough lawyers and courts to accommodate them all?