SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Washington state has blocked new Trump administration rules that could cut off federal funding for health care providers who refer patients for an abortion.
The Washington attorney general’s office said Thursday that Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima granted the injunction following about three hours of argument in a case brought by the state and abortion rights groups. The ruling came two days after a federal judge in Oregon said he intended to at least partially block the rules.
The lawsuits said the administration’s new rules were a transparent attack on Planned Parenthood and would curb access to care such as contraception and breast and cervical cancer screening for millions of low-income people.
I wish I still had one tenth the energy they have.
I was about to say that Yakima is a very conservative city east of the mountains in Wa., but then I see he was appointed by Obama to the federal judge position.
Kellyanne, go explain this to him.
Why do I always have to tell him about sex stuff?
Bowling Green Massacre?
Shit.
I guess the Trump administration never heard of Freedom of Speech. I don’t think this rule passes 1st Amendment muster.
The depths that Republicans go to that make it difficult for women to get health care (not just abortions, but contraceptives as well) are disgusting, considering their positions on so many other things that are about the freedoms of the individual. Forcing doctors to read a bunch of lies to a woman should not be possible, and yet it happens is multiple red states. It’s only going to get worse…the rush to promote anti-abortion laws, and wrap refusal to provide health care in “freedom of religion”, is going to lead to a SC decision that makes abortion illegal in at least some states, and more difficult in all of them.
This was well known in 2016, too bad we couldn’t elect someone who would have stood up and protected women against all of this…