by On Monday, Planned Parenthood secured a temporary order that permits its facilities to keep receiving Medicaid cash for non-abortion-related services.
The organization filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration earlier Monday, arguing that the new law, which effectively prevents Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving federal Medicaid payments, is an unconstitutional assault on both the national organization and its locally operated health care clinics.
Part of the new domestic policy measure that President Trump signed on Friday is being challenged in the case, which was filed in Federal District Court in Massachusetts. In 14 days, the temporary injunction will end.
The new law prohibits Medicaid from paying certain nonprofit health clinics that provide abortions for any other medical services, such as birth control, yearly physicals, and STD testing. (It has long been unlawful to pay for abortions with federal Medicaid funds.)
Only nonprofits that earned $800,000 or more from Medicaid payments during the fiscal year 2023 are covered under the new law. The complaint contends that the statute violates Planned Parenthood’s freedom of expression since it targets the organization for advocating for abortion rights, even though few abortion providers are big enough to fit that criterion.
According to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, the Defund Provision is a blatant attempt to use the government’s spending authority to target and penalize the organization and unlawfully single it out for unfair treatment.
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