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(Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a>)\u00a0Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing two pro-life medical associations filed a friend-of-the-court brief<\/a> Monday, encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case concerning a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule that prevents federal family-planning funding under the Title X program from being used for abortions. The brief explains that the HHS final rule essentially revives one that the Supreme Court already found constitutional in a previous case and should therefore be upheld.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit blocked the HHS regulations in Maryland while a 9th Circuit decision in a separate case upheld them. The rulings create a split between the circuits that only the Supreme Court can resolve.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo court can substitute its own policy views for the views of the elected branches of government,\u201d said ADF Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch. \u201cThe Supreme Court has already recognized that the federal government has authority to prevent Title X funds from being used for abortion. The 4th Circuit chose instead to rely on the preferences of pro-abortion medical associations. The Supreme Court should take this case and affirm that HHS has the authority to issue a rule that the high court already deemed constitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Were programs like Title X started to curb the population of certain people groups?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As ADF explains in its brief filed in Azar v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore<\/i> on behalf of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists and the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, the HHS final rule \u201cessentially revives Title X regulations this Court approved in Rust v. Sullivan<\/i>.\u201d What\u2019s more, the brief continues, \u201cCongress writes the laws, and the executive implements them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no role for the courts to impose their own policy preferences in place of duly enacted laws and proper regulations,\u201d Bursch said.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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