Massachusetts is joining a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's blocking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell says this illegal targeting of Planned Parenthood threatens access to essential health care for millions of Americans.
“By illegally targeting Planned Parenthood, this provision of the budget bill would threaten millions of Americans’ access to essential health care like cancer screenings and pregnancy care,” said AG Campbell. “I will continue to champion reproductive justice and fight back against actions that harm the health and well being of our residents.”
The Connecticut Attorney General is also joining the suit.
“The USDA’s actions are an unprecedented, illegal threat to the privacy of families here in Connecticut and across the country,” said Attorney General Tong. “By law, Connecticut cannot disclose personally identifying SNAP data unless under very specific and strict circumstances. In this instance, none of those limited circumstances exist. No one knows why this data is being collected, who would be allowed to see it, or if it would even be stored correctly. This is simply yet another attempted illegal power grab by this administration and we will not bow down to these baseless and reckless demands.”
The state joins 22 others in this latest lawsuit against the administration that challenges the provision targeting Planned Parenthood in the recently passed budget bill.
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