Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit on Friday against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s secretary, each day when federal officers told the state to start phasing out a Medicaid program in Texas that has health take care of thousands of low-income girls.
The lawsuit — Abbott’s second move against the federal on — claims the federal call to defund the Women’s Health Program is illegitimate and violates the U.S. Constitution.
The Medicaid program funded primarily by the federal provides Pap smears, breast exams, contraception and different services to quite one hundred,000 low-income, uninsured girls between the ages of eighteen and forty four.
A state law passed this summer that may bar the program from paying for care at clinics affiliated with abortion suppliers took impact Wednesday, prompting the federal call to chop funding.
The law is an endeavor to prevent girls from seeking taxpayer-funded care at Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that taking part clinics are legally separated from those who offer abortions, and tax greenbacks can’t be used to purchase abortions. Federal law says girls ought to be ready to choose their own caregivers. » Read more: Texas sues federal agency over Women’s Health Program
