{"id":13208,"date":"2025-09-13T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/appeals-court-reverses-federal-judges-decision-allowing-trump-to-block-funds-to-planned-parenthood\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:20:38","slug":"appeals-court-reverses-federal-judges-decision-allowing-trump-to-block-funds-to-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/appeals-court-reverses-federal-judges-decision-allowing-trump-to-block-funds-to-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court reverses federal judge&#8217;s decision, allowing Trump to block funds to Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1757633292000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) &mdash; A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/planned-parenthood-funding-cuts-ruling-343034bc26917049d6d58a8ba8c58c21\">must continue to be reimbursed<\/a><\/span>  for Medicaid funding as the nation&rsquo;s largest abortion provider fights Trump&rsquo;s administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-income and disabled Americans. Nearly half of Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s patients rely on Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>A provision in Trump&rsquo;s tax bill instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, even to those like Planned Parenthood that also offer medical services like contraception, pregnancy tests and STD testing.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its member organizations in Massachusetts and Utah filed a lawsuit in July against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the Trump administration wants to rip away reproductive freedom, we&rsquo;re here to say loud and clear: we will not back down,&rdquo; Dominique Lee, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts said in a statement. &ldquo;This is not over.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services didn&rsquo;t immediately respond to an online request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood said Thursday&rsquo;s ruling means that more than 1.1 million patients can&rsquo;t use their Medicaid insurance at its health centers. That also puts as many as 200 of those health centers at risk of closure, Planned Parenthood said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood says it is the <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/planned-parenthood\">nation&rsquo;s leading provider<\/a><\/span>  and advocate of affordable sexual and reproductive health care, as well as the nation&rsquo;s largest provider of sex education. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/planned-parenthood-ruling-trump-medicaid-fund-c10ec84f721f4ae34e73e445e7b0004c\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BOSTON (AP) &mdash; A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue. A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nation&rsquo;s largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}