HHS Urges Supreme Court to Withhold Federal Funds to Oklahoma After Appeals Court Ruling

Published on August 30, 2024

The federal government urged the Supreme Court this week to deny Oklahoma’s request to restore a canceled $4.5 million family planning grant. The request came after a federal appeals court rejected another state’s application to reinstate grants under the same program. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) argues Oklahoma should lose the funding because the state won’t include abortion in its information offerings about family planning services. HHS also denied Tennessee a $7 million grant after it refused to provide abortion information to program participants. On Aug. 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the funding denial....

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