Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
With Title X Deadline Monday, Planned Parenthood, Administration Tensely Await News From Courts
PoliticoPro: Clinics, States In Showdown With Trump Administration Over Family Planning Rule
Planned Parenthood and a handful of blue states are in a stare-down with the Trump administration ahead of a Monday deadline for federally funded family planning clinics to show they’re complying with new rules banning abortion referrals or exit the program that provides a big share of reproductive care for low-income women. Some opponents of the Trump policy have stopped using millions of dollars from the federal Title X family planning program while they await a possible federal appeals court ruling that could block it. (Ollstein and Colliver, 8/15)
Arizona Republic: Family Planning In Arizona Could Be Affected By Battle Over New Rules
Thousands of Arizonans who depend on federal funding for help with birth control and reproductive health care could lose access to their regular caregiver on Monday. Planned Parenthood Federation of America warned the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a letter that if the court does not intervene, Planned Parenthood entities will be forced out of the federal Title X grant program by Monday. (Castle, 8/15)
Meanwhile, an legal organization that has opposed many Trump administration health-related proposals is now under the microscope -
Politico: Discrimination Complaints Hit Group Fighting Trump's Health Policies
A legal aid organization leading the fight against several Trump administration policies, including health care for LGBTQ and low-income people, is facing its own internal allegations of discrimination. The National Health Law Program, or NHeLP, was founded in 1969 to advocate for health care rights of underserved people. It has grown more prominent in the Trump era, taking on causes like fighting Medicaid work requirements. But some of its employees have described an environment allowing mistreatment of minority and LGBTQ employees, including instances of bullying black women; employees telling “off-color jokes” about women and Jewish people; and a “sense of not belonging among LGBTQ staff,” according to a 2018 assessment on its workplace culture obtained by POLITICO. (Pradhan, 8/16)
