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(Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a>)\u00a0The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday 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 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

In November of last year, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing two pro-life medical associations filed a friend-of-the-court brief<\/a>\u00a0encouraging the Supreme Court to take the case. The brief explained that the HHS final rule essentially revives one that the high court already found constitutional in a previous case and should therefore be upheld.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Biden reverses Trump\u2019s Title X rule, restores funding to Planned Parenthood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/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. \u201cFor that reason, this case is important regardless of the fact that we have a new administration. The Supreme Court has already recognized that the federal government has the authority to prevent Title X funds from being used for abortion. Now the court\u2019s guidance is needed to make clear that any administration, including future ones, can enforce a rule like this one if it so chooses, and that the courts can\u2019t interfere with that. The 4th Circuit chose instead to rely on the preferences of pro-abortion medical associations. That was wrong. The Supreme Court should affirm that HHS has the authority to issue a rule that the high court already deemed constitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

As ADF explained in its brief filed in Azar<\/em> (now Cochran<\/em>) v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore<\/em> 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<\/em>.\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

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