Planned Parenthood
The group has been under pressure to cut ties with the GOP senator, but she still remains a much-needed ally in the fight against the Title X abortion "gag rule."
After President Donald Trump's administration put restrictions on Title X money, Planned Parenthood decided to stop taking the funding.
Women seeking abortion in the state appear to face "an imminent threat to their constitutional rights," the judge said in her grant for an injunction.
Taxpayers are the “collateral damage” in Ohio’s repeated passage of controversial anti-abortion bills, said an ACLU official.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker granted a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking three new anti-abortion measures from taking effect.
The ACLU, Planned Parenthood and other groups asked a court to stop the law from taking effect in 2020 while their legal challenge continues.
The department had said last week that it would require immediate compliance, which led Planned Parenthood and other providers to say they would defy the order.
“I just learned that the [Planned Parenthood] Board ended my employment at a secret meeting,” Wen tweeted on Tuesday.
The Health and Human Services Department notified clinics it will begin enforcing a ban on abortion referrals and on federal funding for reproductive care.
The state’s Education and Health Departments would be banned from consulting healthcare facilities that provide abortions when designing the program.