{"id":218760,"date":"2020-02-18T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=218760"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:22:38","slug":"judge-blocks-pro-life-title-x-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-blocks-pro-life-title-x-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks pro-life Title X funding rule in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maryland’s abortion industry is celebrating after a ruling from a federal judge exempted them from the Trump Administration’s new Title X requirements. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett ruled on behalf of the city of Baltimore in their suit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), challenging the rule that barred Title X affiliates from referring women for abortions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the ruling<\/a>, Bennett wrote, “[T]his Court holds that the proposed rule as promulgated violates the\u00a0Administrative Procedure Act in that it is arbitrary and capricious, being inadequately justified\u00a0and objectively unreasonable.”<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration’s new requirements for Title X recipients meant that funding could not go to any facilities where abortions are committed; the family planning services had to be financially and physically separate from abortions. Before the rule was instituted, funding received by such facilities was fungible; while these facilities have claimed that federal funding does not go towards abortion services, that federal funding supports the daily operations of the same centers and staff, which provide abortions on the same site. The video below explains the concept of fungibility:<\/p>\n