U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk will decide whether Planned Parenthood must pay back more than $1 billion to the state of Texas in Medicaid...
based on a patient’s sexuality or gender identity. The judge also decided that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting LGBT workers doesn’t apply to the health care setting.
The case was filed by Jonathan Mitchell, former state solicitor general and architect of the 2021 Texas abortion ban known as the Texas Heartbeat Act.. Kacsmaryk said the Biden administration overreached in saying the protections extended beyond hiring and firing decisions.couldn’t end the Trump administration’s so-called “Remain in Mexico” programBiden had halted the program before Kacsmaryk ordered it be reinstated while a legal battle over the policy, brought by Texas and Missouri, ensued.
The state’s Title X administrator instructed more than 150 clinic sites to immediately stop providing birth control options without proof of parental consent.Mitchell also filed this case, Deanda vs. Becerra, on behalf of a man who said he wanted to make sure his daughters couldn’t access birth control, which conflicted with his Christian values., which will have no age restriction on sales.
FILE - Three members of the Women's March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 in Amarillo, Texas. Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Texas judge who sparked a legal firestorm with an unprecedented ruling halting approval of the nation's most common method of abortion, Friday, April 7, 2023, is a former attorney for a religious liberty legal group with a long history pushing conservative causes.
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