22 Dem Led States Sue Over Defunding Planned Parenthood

They do realize that it is lawful for the duly elected Congress to decide what they will and won’t fund, right? And that those Democrat states can provide funding out of their own budget, right?

Democrat-Led States Sue Trump Admin Over Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood

A coalition of Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration this week over the “Big, Beautiful Bill’s” provision defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

The lawsuit was brought by 22 attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), whose state has a Republican attorney general. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed in a press conference on Tuesday that the provision is “punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion.”

“The hypocrisy is really hard to ignore: a party that claims to be defenders of free speech only seem to care about it when it aligns with their own agenda,” he said.

Democrats filed their lawsuit in the same Massachusetts district court that Planned Parenthood filed a separate lawsuit in. An Obama-appointed judge in that lawsuit issued a preliminary injunction last week against the provision, effectively mandating Medicaid funding for the organization’s affiliates as litigation continues.

They’re going to lose. Nowhere in the Constitution nor in federal law does it say that funding any private organization is required. There is a law called the Hyde Amendment, which bars the federal government from funding abortion.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) previously argued in its opposition to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit that the abortion organization “has no right to taxpayer money” and the “court should not invent such a right.”

“The Court should uphold Congress’s lawful exercise of its authority to decide to whom it will entrust taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” the filing reads.

Do the states of Ca, NY, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Mass, Michigan, Minnesota, NJ, Nevada, NM, NC, Oregon, Josh Shapiro (as explained above), RI, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and D.C. (unsurprising, the 1 office they have in DC is an a majority black neighborhood. Dems love aborting black babies) think they will win? The Supreme Court will most likely mention that they can provide funding themselves.

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