Planned Parenthood Kansas Ruling: Judge Orders State To Resume Funding

This is good news. It is sad that so many states have passed legislation that has had an adverse impact on so many people. I hope this is upheld. Planned Parenthood does a lot for women that is preventive in nature. It is definitely needed.

A federal judge ordered Kansas to immediately resume funding a Planned Parenthood chapter on the same quarterly schedule that existed before a new state law stripped it of all federal funding for non-abortion services.

U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Tuesday rejected the state's request that it pay Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri monthly and only for services provided.

The judge also declined to order Planned Parenthood to post a bond in the event the state prevailed in the lawsuit.

Planned Parenthood has sued to block a provision of the state budget preventing the organization from receiving any of the state's share of federal family planning dollars.

Marten wrote in his ruling that the intent of the court's earlier order was to restore and maintain the prior status quo between the parties, a relationship that was based on quarterly installment payments of the federal money. He said the monthly reimbursement schedule the state wants would have the effect of undermining the clinic's ability to maintain its current level of services.

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