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By: Elise DeGeeter, originally published July 17, 2025, CatholicVote.org<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a scathing legal memo July 14, condemning a federal judge\u2019s decision to temporarily block the Trump administration\u2019s one-year ban on taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSimply put, Planned Parenthood has no right to taxpayer money, and this Court should not invent such a right,\u201d HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in the memo<\/a>. \u201cThe Court should uphold Congress\u2019s lawful exercise of its authority to decide to whom it will entrust taxpayers\u2019 hard-earned dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The funding freeze is part of President Donald Trump\u2019s recently passed \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d It bars abortion facilities from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for one year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 7, US District Judge Indira Talwani issued<\/a> a 14-day restraining order on the measure just hours after Planned Parenthood filed suit. The abortion provider claimed the freeze violated its First Amendment rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four days later, Talwani amended<\/a> the order after the administration asked the court to dissolve it, again siding with Planned Parenthood. In her amended ruling, she wrote that Planned Parenthood is likely to succeed in its constitutional challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the July 14 memo, HHS accused Planned Parenthood of attempting to \u201csupplant duly enacted legislation with their own policy preferences.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency defended the funding restriction as a reflection of \u201c[a]ll three democratically elected components of the Federal Government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to Planned Parenthood\u2019s First Amendment concerns, HHS argued that the law targets \u201caction, not advocacy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Planned Parenthood and its affiliates cease providing those abortions, they could receive Medicaid funds even as they continue to advocate for abortion,\u201d the memo stated. \u201cAnd restricting funding for abortion providers does not violate the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy further argued that the lawsuit aims to \u201cusurp\u201d a legitimate exercise of congressional authority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven before Dobbs<\/em>,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthe Supreme Court had made clear the Government can \u2018subsidize family planning services which will lead to conception and childbirth,\u2019 while declining to \u2018promote or encourage abortion.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legal battle is expected to continue as the restraining order remains in effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elise DeGeeter is an author at CatholicVote.org.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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