Litigation challenging Title X regulations
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Sobel, Laurie, author Salganicoff, Alina, author
- Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, November 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Family Planning Services -- legislation & jurisprudence Abortion, Legal United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- On March 4, 2019, the Trump Administration issued new regulations that makes significant changes to Title X, the federal family planning grant program. The new regulations effectively block the availability of Title X grants to family planning clinics that offer abortion services with other funds, curtail counseling, ban Title X projects from making referrals to abortion services, and require all pregnant patients served by Title X clinics to be referred for prenatal services, regardless of their pregnancy intention. Shortly after the regulations were finalized, the attorneys general from 23 states, major family planning organizations and the American Medical Association filed legal challenges in federal courts to block the implementation of the final Title X regulations. Although the district courts in Washington, Oregon, California and Maryland initially issued preliminary injunctions blocking the implementation of the new regulations, the Courts of Appeals have blocked these preliminary injunctions, and the regulations are currently in effect pending the outcome of the litigation. The Trump Administration Title X regulations are similar to rules issued by the Reagan Administration that were also challenged by provider groups, but were ultimately upheld in 1991 by the Supreme Court in Rust v Sullivan. Ultimately, one or more of these cases may be appealed to the Supreme Court, to decide whether the Trump Administration regulations violate the federal statutes or the Constitution or are within their agency rights. This brief provides an overview of the legal challenges to the Trump Administration final regulations and summarizes the key positions of the plaintiffs and HHS.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101767747 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101767747