Law Defunding Planned Parenthood Reinstated
March 10, 2023 | Florida
A federal court has reinstated a 2016 Florida law that allows the state to strip taxpayer funding from Planned Parenthood, citing the overturning of Roe v. Wade as justification.
United States District Judge Robert L. Hinkle of the Northern District of Florida issued an order Tuesday in the case of Planned Parenthood et al. v. Joseph Ladapo et al., explaining that an earlier injunction stopping Florida from enforcing the defunding law was based on the presumption that abortion was a constitutional right, which was a precedent created by the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.
The judge noted that Roe was overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ruled that states could ban abortion. (Excerpt from Christian Post.)
