9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jul. 5, 2019
9th Circuit to rehear Title X abortion funding case
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal decided to rehear en banc a Title X provision barring pre-pregnancy family planning services that receive federal funds from providing abortion counseling.
A full panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider a Title X provision barring pre-pregnancy family planning services that receive federal funds from providing abortion counseling. State of California v. Azar, 2019 DJDAR 54333 (9th Cir. June 20, 2019).
Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services revised its Title X regulations to return to a 1988 reading of a key provision that prohibits "Title X projects from in any way promoting or encouraging abortion as a method of family planning."
Three states - California, Washington, and Oregon - sued, claiming the 1988 interpretation contradicted existing law and illegally prohibited medical providers from providing factual information about abortion availability. District courts in all three states issued preliminary injunctions. A per curiam panel in June stayed those injunctions pending appeal.
-- Ilan Isaacs
Ilan Isaacs
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