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Sherman A1

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Tue Jun 18, 2019, 02:14 PM Jun 2019

Judge Says Missouri Legislators Unlawfully Cut Off Planned Parenthood's Medicaid Funding

A state court judge in St. Louis on Friday ordered Missouri to restore Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood’s affiliates in that city.

Judge David L. Dowd ruled that the legislature’s fiscal 2019 appropriations bill for the Medicaid program violated the state constitution by barring payments to abortion providers and their affiliates.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/judge-says-missouri-legislators-unlawfully-cut-planned-parenthood-s-medicaid-funding?

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