A federal judge in #Maine declined on Monday to block the #government from stripping #Medicaid #funding from one of Maine’s largest #abortion providers, finding that to do so would override “the will of the people as expressed by Congress.”
At issue is a provision of the tax & spending bill Congress passed in July that would deny abortion providers Medicaid funding even for #health services other than performing abortions.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/maine-judge-abortion-funding-blocked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
In a blunt, 19-page opinion, Judge Lance E. Walker of the Federal District Court in #Maine wrote that particularly after the #SCOTUS decision in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, he could neither consider #abortion services a constitutional right nor stop #Congress from advancing laws to defund organizations that provide them.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.med.68510/gov.uscourts.med.68510.31.0.pdf