Supreme Court Declines to Reinstate Family Planning Grant to Pro-Life Oklahoma

Published on September 3, 2024

The Supreme Court denied on Sept. 3 Oklahoma’s emergency application to restore a canceled $4.5 million family planning grant. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision to deny the injunction against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency that withheld the grant. HHS argued Oklahoma should lose the funding because the state won’t include abortion in its information offerings about family planning services. Oklahoma law forbids it from making abortion referrals. Abortion is banned in Oklahoma except to save the life of the mother. HHS says states must provide abortion information to qualify for grants under Title X of the Public Health Service Act of 1970....

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