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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that taxpayer dollars can be used by federally funded family planning clinics to support abortion referrals. The decision follows a lawsuit launched by attorneys from 12 states who argued that Title X money cannot be used to support abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Title X is a federal program that provides family planning services and is administered through the Office of Population Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services.\u00a0<\/span>In 2019, former President Donald Trump instituted the <\/span>Protect Life Rule<\/span><\/a>, which prevented family planning facilities that received Title X funding from providing abortion referrals. As a result of the new rule, abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood voluntarily withdrew from the Title X program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Biden-Harris administration launches task force to \u2018protect and bolster\u2019 abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Realistically, however, Planned Parenthood should not have been receiving Title X money due to numerous instances of <\/span>abuse<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>fraud<\/span><\/a> that should have disqualified them from the program. Abuses by the abortion giant have <\/span>included<\/span> racism<\/span><\/a> and discrimination, a failure to comply with mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, a failure to protect patient confidentiality, and <\/span>many others<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2021, President Joe Biden immediately began the process of reversing the Protect Life Rule. The move immediately got the attention of attorneys across the country. In May 2021, a coalition representing 21 states sent a <\/span>letter<\/span><\/a> to President Biden <\/span>advising<\/span><\/a>\u00a0him that using Title X funding for abortion referrals breaks the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently, a dozen attorneys led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a <\/span>lawsuit<\/span><\/a> in the U.S. Southern District of Ohio seeking to permanently reinstate the rule put into place in 2019 under the Trump Administration. In a statement, Yost commented, \u201cYou can\u2019t ‘follow the money’ when all the money is dumped into one pot and mixed together. Federal law prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion \u2014 and that law means nothing if the federal money isn\u2019t kept separate. That, frankly, is the real reason behind the rule.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

States involved in the lawsuit include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Not all states participate in Title X.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, a panel of judges on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the states\u2019 injunction request. They determined that the \u201cstates have not demonstrated that they will be irreparably harmed without the injunction.\u201d Unfortunately, the states were unable to <\/span>deter<\/span><\/a> the new rule before federal grants start rolling out in March. The <\/span>next step<\/span><\/a> could be an appeal to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While funneling taxpayer dollars to any abortion organization, especially Planned Parenthood, is fraught with <\/span>issues<\/span><\/a>, pro-lifers have not lost hope. This year brings the <\/span>possibility<\/span><\/a> that Roe v. Wade<\/em> will be overturned \u2014 a potentially historic moment for the pro-life movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/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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