{"id":200948,"date":"2019-04-24T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=200948"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:23:21","slug":"oregon-judge-block-title-x-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/oregon-judge-block-title-x-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon judge will partially block Trump’s Title X rule affecting Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane of Oregon said Tuesday that he will grant a preliminary injunction against a new federal rule preventing taxpayer-funded family planning facilities from referring patients for abortions.\u00a0Section 1008<\/a> of the Title X statute prohibits abortion as a method of family planning.\u00a0McShane said he also plans to grant a preliminary injunction against another new Title X rule stating that facilities that commit abortions must house abortion services in separate buildings from their actual legitimate health care services. Of course, both of these injunctions would affect Planned Parenthood, which commingles its abortion business and its birth control dispensation under the same roof, with the same staff, often in the same visit. And therefore, federal family planning funds that go to Planned Parenthood are supporting the organization’s abortion business as well<\/a> (fungibility).<\/p>\n

Oregon, along with 19 other states and the District of Columbia, is suing against the Trump Administration’s new Title X rules. Planned Parenthood is suing as well. The new regulations state that along with forbidding taxpayer dollars to go towards abortions, family planning facilities who receive the federal funding may not refer patients for abortions either.\u00a0The change is due to take effect on May 3.<\/p>\n

McShane stopped short of saying he would issue a national injunction against the rule, saying he is reluctant to set “national health care” policy. It is unclear exactly what his final ruling will entail.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0How Planned Parenthood uses taxpayer dollars and Title X for abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The attorney for the federal government, Andrew M. Bernie, said in court that there has been no proof of “irreparable harm” from the rules and there is no political motivation behind them. The new regulations, according to Oregon Live<\/a>, fit within the 1991 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Rust v. Sullivan<\/em>, which prohibits federally funded family-planning facilities from counseling patients on abortion.<\/p>\n

Judge McShane, in turn, said it would be “insane” for his doctor to send him to a fertility clinic if he requested a vasectomy, likening sterilization to an abortion. He seems not to understand the difference between a semi-permanent method of preventing the fertilization of a human being and killing an already-conceived preborn human being through abortion. Abortion is not birth control.<\/p>\n