Class-action lawsuit targets Trump cuts to teen pregnancy prevention
A class-action lawsuit filed Friday morning argues the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally ended grants to 81 organizations participating in a federal teen pregnancy prevention program.
HHS last summer sent notices to groups participating in the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program informing them their grants would end two years earlier than originally planned, arguing that there efforts to cut teen pregnancy rates were ineffective.
Federal judges have since ruled against the Trump administration in three separate cases representing eight grantees.
Friday's lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Healthy Futures of Texas on behalf of all grantees and is being represented by the Public Citizen Litigation Group.
Public Citizen hopes the outcome of those cases will work in its favor as it seeks to block the terminations for the remaining grantees.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/385194-class-action-lawsuit-targets-trump-admins-cuts-to-teen-pregnancy-prevention