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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed three cases regarding former President Donald Trump’s rule preventing federal family planning funds from going to the abortion industry, with Trump appointees Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh joining the court’s liberals in agreeing that the matter was moot.
In 2019, Trump instituted the Protect Life rule, which required “clear financial and physical separation between Title X-funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning,” and banned “referral for abortion as a method of family planning.” It was projected to cut almost $60 million from the $616 million Planned Parenthood received during the most recent fiscal year.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit lifted a temporary injunction against enforcing the rule that June, and the full court affirmed that decision in February 2020, predicting that lawsuits brought in California, Oregon, and Washington “will not succeed” on the merits. Last May, the 9th Circuit denied the abortion lobby’s request to have its February judgment reconsidered by a different 11-judge panel or by
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