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Thanks to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granting a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration last week, Ohio will no longer be required to use Title X funds on organizations that commit abortions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The ruling comes just over a year after <\/span>Ohio and 12 other states filed suit<\/span><\/a> to stop the HHS under President Biden\u2019s directive from overturning the 2019 \u201cProtect Life Rule.\u201d The Rule in question required recipients of federal Title X funds \u201cto maintain strict physical and financial separation between their Title X programs and any abortion-related services they might provide.\u201d The rule insulated tax dollars from funding abortionists, preventing subversion of the <\/span>Hyde Amendment<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a 2-1 opinion in <\/span>Ohio et al. v. Becerra et al.<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Judge Joan Larsen ruled that the Biden\u00a0 administration\u2019s directive sidestepped the way Congress intended Title X funds to be used. Moreover, Judge Larsen agreed that Ohio demonstrated irreparable harm when the federal funds were used on the abortion giant. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the 2019 Rule went into effect […] both the Ohio Department of Health and Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio received grants,\u201d the Ohio Department of Health claimed in the suit. \u201cAfter the 2019 Rule, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio stopped participating in Title X, and the Ohio Department of Health received all of the funds that were allocated to grantees in Ohio.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

READ: Biden administration withholds millions in Title X funding over Tennessee\u2019s abortion policy<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But when the Biden administration overturned the Protect Life Rule and again directed money towards Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, the move took a considerable bite out of the state\u2019s funds. \u201cDue to the rule change, Ohio lost one-fifth of its Title X funding, an amount that it cannot get back.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge Larsen agreed. \u201cThe causal link here is not obscure,\u201d she wrote in her opinion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ohio\u2019s Attorney General, David Yost, welcomed the court\u2019s opinion. \u201cWhatever your opinion on abortion as a moral matter,\u201d Yost said in a <\/span>statement<\/span><\/a>, \u201cthe court vindicated Congress\u2019 considered judgment that tax dollars should not fund programs that use abortion as a method of family planning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But the court\u2019s opinion was more limited than many pro-lifers would like. The court granted the injunction exclusively to Ohio, saying that the other 11 states in the lawsuit did not submit financial data and thus did not prove irreparable harm. The court also left in place a provision allowing Title X funds to go to providers who refer for abortions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Title X<\/span><\/a> is a grant program for reproductive and family planning services enacted in 1970. It is also a major source of funding for Planned Parenthood. The abortion business receives approximately <\/span>$60 million per year<\/span><\/a> in Title X funding, one of its largest sources according to the <\/span>Charlotte Lozier Institute<\/span><\/a>. When the Protect Life Rule was initially announced, the organization withdrew from the program altogether rather than stop committing abortions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the court\u2019s ruling is good news for Ohio, abortion advocates are celebrating a limited win. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis ruling is surprisingly good news, albeit with some unclear implications for Ohio and the network down the road,\u201d said Clare Coleman of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), according to <\/span>The Hill<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe bottom line is that today\u2019s decision keeps the Biden administration\u2019s rule fully in effect and has no immediate impact on the full network \u2013 that should bring welcome relief for patients and providers alike.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Walgreens<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granting a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration last week, Ohio will no longer be required to use Title X funds on organizations that commit abortions.\u00a0 The ruling comes just over a year after Ohio and 12 other states filed suit to stop the HHS under President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":298004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCourt hands good news to Ohio, bad news to 11 other states on family planning funding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The court granted the injunction exclusively to Ohio, saying the other 11 states that sued didn't submit financial data and didn't prove harm.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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