Federal Judge Blocks Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid Cuts to Planned Parenthood

A federal judge on July 28 blocked a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ruling that it likely violates the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking a section of the law that she said targeted Planned Parenthood and constituted a form of punishment against the organization and its members for providing abortions.
That provision of the law, which was backed by Republicans and enacted by President Donald Trump at the start of July, bars certain tax-exempt organizations and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid funds if they continue to provide abortions. Those organizations include Planned Parenthood, which filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the provision…. 

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